Working on a new piece: The Tree
Initial layers for a new Painting
Normally I am very much a planner when I work on larger more involved pieces. A few sketches become ink and watercolour studies and then even after I begin laying down layers, I still might add or tweek it here.
This piece can't decide where it wants to be.
Sometimes I paint a thing that seems like a recalled dream. Who knows what got in there to spur it on, a chat with someone, a film, maybe a book, or just a dream...but, it gets in there none the less.
Sometimes I feel the mind of the artist can see into the past and future.
And I could see this easily being a remembered past centuries ago as well as a glimpse of my post Singularity world, with gears and and a bit of a glowing light. It hasn't told me yet.
I used to let my artwork have more free life, like spoilt children.
I'd let them meander and charge into my subconscious willy nilly, throwing things about and demanding to be made in this way or that, no rhyme or reason.
I learned a long time ago that art must be tamed sometimes and given time outs and rules and lessons to behave.
That is why I try to maintain a few styles but with some self inflicted rules to those places. Otherwise I found myself making things that would be so random and disconnected, gallery collections seemed impossible with the chaotic nature of this or that.
But, every so often, one dotes on a child. Perhaps they have given you 'the look' and you end up giving them sweets and allowing them free reign to faff about instead of getting down to business and towing the like and following the rules.
This piece is that spoilt child.
What shall it be? Who can say. Sometimes spoiled children simply never learn and are relegating to the dark shadow from which they stepped, like the ghost of a forgotten ancestor no one bothers to recall enough to aide them in their haunting.
One must humour an introverted child-less artist who gives far too much life to her scribbles.
In other's it might be called odd or madness, in artist's we call it "eccentricity".
So, I hope that if you are an artist, today you make your 'children' mind and do as they are told. Otherwise, who knows what toppled mess you might find yourselves in.
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And check out my other posts.
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- Sharing my Game of Bones animal parodies and Faffing about on a Sunday morning.
- New Character coloured and done
- Sketch for a new work, Who is are new little animal friend?
- Tee shirt design from a section of my Painting and a coming storm, sort of.
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I find this very different to what I've seen from you so far! I love her red hair and the fact that the painting is 'blurry'. Another great piece!
thank you, again she is a naughty child. I have painted and created in so many styles but am always trying to hold down a few for repetition and to be a sort of 'language' with which to interpret my artistic narrative. But, let's say I'd like to be polymath in art languages.
That is a wild image. I think it has potential to go in many many differing directions, if you let it. That can sometimes be fun, to be able to do whatever you want, however you want, to get there. If there IS a final 'there'. Art is so cool, in this regard. Yet, I see why you have to have some 'rules' for the children. Otherwise, things just go where they want, and getting a handle on them would be difficult, like a ferret down the drainpipe to the outdoors and beyond. As you say, can't have that all the time, as nothing would be coherent, or maybe even ever be finished. I see advantage to both, at times. I'm sure my somewhat random writings would benefit from some of this 'parenting'.
I fear I am more in the 'toppled mess' end of things. At least in writing. Often not knowing where some things are 'going', until they get there at the end of their creation. They often start with an idea or photo, but head out on their own. But I love your discussion of the art as a child. And as for eccentricity, I say hear hear and go with it. (Or should that be here here)?
I so enjoy your discussions and writings about your work. You have such a way with the word. They remind me of a conversation I could be having with you, if I was sitting in a chair across from you in your studio, rain spattering on the window panes, smell of divine tea brewing in the pot, discussing the painting child of the artist. Oh, the joys of life from afar and away through the written word.
Well, I'm off to eat, have a most wondrous night.
I will be a child tonight.
This one is killer, it can be seen already, and if you leave it like this still it would be great @donnadavisart.
Thank you @jungwatercolor, it might stay this way. I like it too and might keep this as it's own interation as well as doing another version with more 'tech' for my Singularity.
That's good idea, to make something similar but different @donnadavisart.
A beautiful choice of colours - I'm sure it will be wonderful
Thanks @opheliafu, in a way it was almost a study of warm and cool.
Paintings are often unruly children who point to our lack of clarity. Believe me, I sympathize as I have a painting that is hard to pull together right now. And no one can help in that case - we just have to work it out. But it is a nice feeling when it starts to go in a satisfying direction...
Isn't it though, @kathleenscarboro ? Sometimes the most impudent children turn out to be the great finished pieces :)
I don't do anything for galleries so I don't have to worry about that kind of thing. I guess my stuff are all demons in that case, I just do whatever it wants because if I don't it simply doesn't work out XD
I was staring at this piece in a while and then when you said something about recalled dreams I thought yes that's this piece exactly, looks like a recalled dream :) I like the colour shift from foreground to background and the silhouettes in the background, it's really cool and slightly creepy.
I sort of let my things be a bit more belligerent and ill behaved in my sketchbooks, but I do try and make them behave once I start on final things. But we paint and create what we must and a lot of art is by feeling and intuition, so it can all be a bit of a mish mash I suppose; some planned some like 'automatic writing'.
I'm glad you think it a little creepy a little sinister and a bit of humour always makes me smile in art so I am glad when it appears in my own :)
I really like this piece, even if it's just the stepping stone to a more finished piece. I think the gestural way you painted it really breaths air and life into the painting.
I like the initial stage very much!
Thank you so much @romanie
your works are alive :) and so beautiful , what comes into my mind by watching this one is , her body is fading away and turn into butterflies ...
I had thought of butterflies in this one as well, great minds think alike @adelepazani