painting

For my next painting I decided to take a step back from experimenting and paint something. As a kid I remember drawing faces from a side view which always looked weird so I thought I would trace back to those days and inject some steriods into one.

Not quite sure on the end result but I do like the mutant element to it.

I decided to try a landscape again but slightly differently. I wanted to see if I could get a water effect using a blend of colours. What started as promising soon became an argh! as I started to paint the top half of the picture (as you can see).

It still makes me cringe but then I was experimenting, nothing I was going to produce was going to be a master piece. I had settled on painting over the top part, however the canvass suffered an accident in storage and was ripped so that was the end of that.

I thought I would try something different with acrylic. The initial idea was to do an alien landscape. I started with the sun shape and then went ah.

From there I decided to go with the brush and how I could merge colours together.

This was a typical piece where you follow the brush and although it didn't turn out as well as I had hoped the experience was enlightening.

I do fancy tackling a landscape in a similar fashion in the future when I have experimented some more.

So far I had run free with the paint and brushes but could I put something from my head to canvass? It was time to attempt it to see what the result was.

The idea was conversation between two abstract shapes. The intention was to provide a means to experiment with painting a foreground over a background.

Sometimes things come from somewhere and you don't quite know where. This is a good example.

Like painting 2 was initially painted upside down with the red at the bottom before I decided to turn it round and paint downwards. After completing the red, I decided to experiment and water down the acrylic to see what I could do with it.

There was no plan but as I started the lower half I could see within it a landscape and flowed the flow.

This is one of my favorite pieces simply because it felt right when it was done.

I am not sure where the background came from for this and I am pretty sure I won't be able to repeat it.

I did pause for a while in front of the canvass wondering if I should keep the background as the painting but then I thought I was putting off jumping in the deep end and putting an actual image on the canvass.

So I jumped in.

In all honestly I have no idea which way the painting should hang, not even now.

Holding and looking at painting 0, my old school days came back and the negative, "I can't do it".

Wiser and older, I thought fuck it and figured I couldn't make it any worse than it was - what did I have to loose? Nothing, there was everything to gain. Since I quite liked one half, I decided to paint over the other. There was no plan, just dip the colours and run with them.

This was my first completed painting since I was fifteen.

I was given a small canvass to work with by my brother in law, having not painted since I was fifteen I thought I would get a feel before tackling something.

There was no real plan just to roll with the brush and paint. I wasn't particularly happy with the initial result. However, I wasn't prepared to admit defeat at the first hurdle.