My Journey

Monday, June 8, 2020

Diptych in Purples

Art is a rare pursuit where participants have to learn to ring their own bells.

Robert Genn

When working in oils I usually work one two or more pieces. This allows me not to get bored or wrapped up in one painting or in one section. Putting work aside and looking at it even after a few minutes often allows a fresh look. Sometimes in my workshop when I take a coffee break, way across the room, and look at the work really from afar I also get a new perspective. So I worked the green diptych together with the purple one using the same color palette. Only the underlying collage pieces were different. The color palette is Azo Gold, as close as I could get, black, usually chromatic, white, and buff titanium. These were the colors given by my "bossy" instructor!

WIP
Each panel 6" x 18"
Oils on cut canvas
Collage
Digitally Framed

Collage Start

WIP

Still unseparated

Sunday, June 7, 2020

Diptych Greens

Had some strips of long narrow cut canvas and decided to make a Diptych. Taped them with a border on cardboard in order to work with them together. Started with collaging with some colored blobs from my stack of acrylic palette papers that I save, I use regular sandwich paper. Then started working with prompts in oils

WIP

18" x 6"

Oils on cutcanvas

Collage

Digital Frame

Collage Start

Still Taped WIP

Reuven suggested that I keep it as one so I separated them in PS and added a frame to see how they would look. Thoughts

Saturday, June 6, 2020

One plus Eight

More Corona Isolation Paintings

Taped

Free

After cutting my large sheet of paper into a square format the remainder I cut into smaller pieces around 8" x 10". I taped them to heavy cardboard and painted them as one piece. After separating them I trimmed them to the same size so I could play with their orientation. These were then digitally framed with a neat program called Fotosketcher.