This painting is another one begun with a variety of Golden’s acrylic mediums textured with my stash of mostly household odds & sods. It’s a fun way to begin. Here’s what it looked like at various stages along the way:
- Just a bunch of texture with the first bit of painting on it. At this point I am forcing myself to keep it abstract – a hard job when I can “see” subjects popping here and there.
- Here I’ve tried to glaze off some of the extreme purple and make some “bones” to hold it together.
- Texture detail… some of it is 1/8” or more thick molding paste, some lines of tar gel drizzle, flat gesso areas scraped in places, etc.
- At this point I was unable to deny the the obvious scarf covered woman’s head in the top left … I came back to subject again with these abstracted figures by painting their hands and faces white and glazing skin tones. This still needs more bones to hold it together. Although I have added some opaques throughout the painting, they are not jumping out nor are they obvious enough to hold the hands and faces in a context.
- I’ve now added more opaques in a grid which, I hope, completes the understructure.
Am I done? I think I’m close. This is one of those paintings that I have to sleep on. Cheers!
4 comments:
Thanks so much for showing us the various stages...interesting how you got to where you did. I really like the final piece.
I love this picture Cheryl. One of your best !
Hi Cheryl...
Awesome work... keep it up! :)
This piece is worth much more than a monetary value to me. Caught within is a harmonius and melodious interaction of humanity. Thanks for sharing your gift with us.
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