Saturday, 28 July 2012

Colours pop with a wash of white













I kept wanting the white space so I lightly washed over the blue and I like the visible  brush strokes and the different textures... Still working on the harmony. I know I have to make choices

Colours of blue are making me happy


In my last post, which was so long ago, I wanted to head in the direction of blue/green. Since then I decided that I didn't want certain areas any more so I marked out (with a black wax crayon) the areas I wanted to keep, mixed up the colour I wanted to use, and painted it out.
I'm still not happy with the harmony of the colours and I keep wanting light white space

Friday, 13 April 2012

Colour Makes Me Happy... Still








Since returning from the Glenelg River neutral, natural tones (mainly yellows and green) have infiltrated the previous lolly pop colours and the whole thing is starting to settle down. I will keep some of the really vibrant colours to represent the greens, oranges, reds and pinks that show up in the bush after fire and rain but the move is towards "blue and green should never be seen unless there's a colour in between"...This painting has no deep meaning or direction other than what comes next. It's an exercise in familiarizing myself with the way colour works and how paint moves with other media.

The interesting thing (to me) about doing this is that there is still so much that doesn't work or tie together in this painting yet but its still out there