A post to nail
down my work from this Autumn so far.
As is the norm – things that are immediately happening around me at present, I haven’t
reacted to (Autumn).
However, I have been cataloguing past work which has hit me in an informative
way. Especially the smaller thumbnails, which I suppose are the germs of bigger
ideas.
(An initial stage from which
something may develop.)
Maybe if I had been on Shipping Hill, Autumn would have been a closer
experience – something to relate to.
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The note book in question
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4/9/19.
Speaking very loosely:
On a painting
I like to
SPLASH OUT * (take a leap into the unknown!)
or Knit together with a glaze or wash, bonding the thing together, may-be with a translucency that holds a mix of both the bordering colours that may-need calming down.
Then cut into it,
with often pretty hard edged precise areas
or bold mark-making.
06/09/2019.
“Repeat Performance”
The intention being to simply repeat the whole process ~ that is, on the ones that needed it.
Some of the images were finished in two moves ~ some will never be finished.
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Lightening Seeds
Didn't get past the first hurdle.
Mind ~ I don't think there was a lot more I could have done with it. |
1/ doodle / scan
2/ Clean
3/ Print
4/ Paint
5/ Scan
6/ Finish?
This set of pictures is from original notes and doodles from a small – lined (aside) notebook that was used as a kind of idea collecting vehicle.
Which I used as kind of backup on Shipping Hill 2013. Maybe so’s I didn’t forget things, although there are quite a few ideas that didn’t get much further at the time.
They are “little-big” paintings as such.
They started life as little more than thumbnail sketches with ruled lines and coffee stains thrown in.
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| crooning by a pool |
My intention at this point is to form a cycle of scan – print – paint as an ongoing process, slowly building them up to a saturated level. With each process leading – informing & catalysing the following stage.
Then carrying through to a finished state.
They were scanned – enlarged & cleaned-up
then printed A4 size.
At which point I very quickly (without forethought) threw water-colour-paint at them. Then cleaned them up again - digitally.
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luckily before the dawn had time to change its mind
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10~09~2019
Luckily before the dawn had time to change its mind.
40 thousand headmen
a fairy story for the late 1960’s from “Traffic”
07/09/2019.
My work in general seems to be in a “looking back mode” ~
maybe that’s because my life pattern is mainly stationary at the moment.
Nothing too exciting happening to react to (Brexit!!?)
Not that that is a bad thing ~ I do think that my progress in art goes round in
circles.
07/09/2019.
“an all-round story”
1st on the repainted portion.
Kandinsky or bust ~ do or die (in a ditch)
I think I am going to have to put this lot onto a wix
website. Having a reel for each picture ~ or maybe two.
As long as I know all the words, it’s my song and I
intend to
sing it now.
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| Sing my song now |
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mid stage!
Relief
cardboard & papier mache. |
08/09/2019.
It’s beginning to look as though
I’m giving myself
a
painting a day
challenge!
O6/O9/2O19.
“A summary”
This sketch book thingy came about because at the moment I’m storing all or as much as possible of my work produced throughout the years.
A summary of my life it could be said. Although, I have no intentions of “throwing in the towel”, I intend to paint for the rest of my life.
Nor is it to do with some sort of physical incapacity, I have been quite lucky on the terminal illness thing.
~ followed by a fleeting superstitious feeling!
Sunday 27th October 2019
Posting “large” on face book.
I think, generally speaking that people use face book in
a lazy impatient kind of way – myself included. Wanting to see one image or
thought, then moving on.
The main reason I put links to Blog Posts in my group is to reassure myself
that that is one avenue from which to access the blog. Mind, I don’t get many
blog “hits”
Why do I do them then?
Mainly in order to catalogue and to make them accessible to myself as images. Also
to get to the whys & wherefores comfortably without having to spend a long
time searching.
They are also one step up the ladder in terms of composing “units” to my web
site.
