September 20, 7:00 p.m. (Sold)

 ......sweet summer end...a beautiful, cool evening. Acrylic and pencil on unprimed Whatman paper, 10.25 x 13.75 inches, image size 8.75 x 12 inches.

There are all sorts of planning and decision making in painting, but I always welcome the things that happen without direct planning, as the result of process, that seem right and 'wished on'. In this case, that bit of brighter blue at top center of the sky activated that area in a way that added extra life.......

 

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Process.....White Flock

 



 I neutralize the palette colour by brushing over it at the end of a work session...there are some advantages for us acrylic painters...things dry quickly! You can see the tooth on the nice Whatman paper which I am really liking at the moment. The colours on my palette will vary to some degree with each painting. I also mix paint on a variety of plastic caps. The scratching through has become pretty important in some pictures, mostly because it offers a easily obtainable scale difference. There is big and small, and we see them both. It also offers the excitement of line and mark...

Acrylic and pencil on umprimed Whatman paper 10 x 13.75 inches, image size 8.5 x 12 inches. The soil stays moist on an overcast day, good for picking worms....the gull flock settles in at the plowed part of the field.....

Any scratching through has to be done while the paint is wet,...with acrylic that needs to be within the few minutes after the paint is applied. But pencil will also do some interesting line and mark things, if the paint is too dry for a scratchthrough....

the under colour will also vary, although I use pink a lot. It can be any variety of warm...but it usually IS warm, because the majority of colours in the finished work will be cool, so the warm wash offers an immediate tension and contrast.

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Process....

 ...one of the methods I use....this piece completely from memory of a place I visit every day. I have a number of methods that are used over time....no one method is used for very long. There is a portion of road that seems very mysterious and always alters my mood. 2 little diagrams to start, then under wash, and at the end, how I use up the left over paint to make collage papers. I am starting to get a great collection of these papers....so many that I can't even get to most of them. The colours, created without intention, are always fascinating. I love my painted papers, perhaps  because they are so loose, and made with such ease.....

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