Done.
Leaving for 3 week trip.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Surprising Discoveries
So I futzed with the painting AGAIN and surprise, surprise....I didn't kill it.... yet.
I added an orange "blanket" under the Tori figure so that hopefully it now looks like the she is sitting behind the dog and not levitating on top of it. (It would have been nice if I had a "before photo" so you could see the amazing levitating figure.)
Not sure I like what the vertical edge of the blanket is doing to the composition, though.
Another discovery...Liquin added to the oil paint makes it all dry quicker. Much quicker. That was pretty thick paint yesterday and I'm very surprised that it's all dried today. Learn something new every day...
So now I'm looking at the painting and I think I need to add hair to the figure so it looks more like Tori, and not so androgynous. Also need to work on that blanket edge.
Dang. I'm asking for trouble. Living dangerously.
Packing it up.....maybe
I leave tonight for a 3 week trip to Asia. I reluctantly packed away all my paints yesterday. Wiped my palette clean. This is a difficult thing to do--I don't mean because it's messy dealing with oil paints, but that too.
Hard to get on a roll and then have to put stuff away. I'm in the middle of an "almost good" painting. Hate to stop now. I worked on 3 different paintings yesterday. I'll call two of them "warm-ups" since they didn't turn out to be anything, but that's okay. Experimented with Liquin and had fun mixing it with the paint to a finger-paint consistency. One painting was a de Kooning experiment, but alas, a FAILURE! Learned that I sometimes need to WAIT between brush strokes. Ended up with yet another muddy mess.
Third painting ended up being "successful". Started "doodling" a very loose figure (Tori seated with legs crossed). Then JW said "that thing (at the bottom) could be a dog." So that's what I made it. Anyway, it's "almost good" except that Tori looks like she's levitating on top of Docious. So I have to futz with that. Probably will screw it up if I try to do it now before my trip. I should leave it, but then I'll have to work on in when the paint is dry and that's not good either.
Maybe I'll just do a LITTLE today before I leave. Can't leave it alone. I hope I don't kill it!
Hard to get on a roll and then have to put stuff away. I'm in the middle of an "almost good" painting. Hate to stop now. I worked on 3 different paintings yesterday. I'll call two of them "warm-ups" since they didn't turn out to be anything, but that's okay. Experimented with Liquin and had fun mixing it with the paint to a finger-paint consistency. One painting was a de Kooning experiment, but alas, a FAILURE! Learned that I sometimes need to WAIT between brush strokes. Ended up with yet another muddy mess.
Third painting ended up being "successful". Started "doodling" a very loose figure (Tori seated with legs crossed). Then JW said "that thing (at the bottom) could be a dog." So that's what I made it. Anyway, it's "almost good" except that Tori looks like she's levitating on top of Docious. So I have to futz with that. Probably will screw it up if I try to do it now before my trip. I should leave it, but then I'll have to work on in when the paint is dry and that's not good either.
Maybe I'll just do a LITTLE today before I leave. Can't leave it alone. I hope I don't kill it!
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