Halloween Field

Halloween Field (Sold)
...it rained on and off......I seem to really enjoy rainy and very grey days. As the weather gets colder I'll continue with this method of working in the front seat. I make a lot of these pieces on location, but overall, there are more that get made in studio.

There is something very pleasing about the feeling that you're not really in control. It's a mad rush when I'm out there....more so than when I'm in the studio, even though it's always my practice to avoid stopping to deliberate. This is even more pronounced when I'm out on location. I like that sense of reacting...and not really knowing what you're going to get....

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Walking Home

Walking home as the light starts to fade. I liked how that pink white cloud was peaking out at its gentle, odd angle. Every so often I return to the advice "paint only what is in the initial idea as simply and forcefully as possible....no embellishment". You can see just what was in the 30 second diagram. I considered making the painting even smaller so there would be room for absolutely nothing but the original idea or motif.

On another point, greens can be notoriously difficult when we are talking about a tonal observational type of painting, which in part, this is. Intense greens can refuse to lie down and can seem to upset the chemistry of the colour relationships. Even with complementary mixing, some greens can be too energetic. For years I avoided mixing with black, in favour of a complementary mixing system. In this case I did mix with a warm black and was pleased with the results. I'll experiment with mixing greens in this way a bit more.

Recent Collages

I decided to keep these two collages without any painting additions in the end stages. The pencil found its way onto a few shapes.

So far the types of production seems to go as follows:

1) paintings from small diagrams
2) paintings with photo reference
3) collage paintings from both methods above
4) invented collages from memory, with or without painted additions
5) landscape paintings from invention