I think that painting is a focusing; a process of exaggeration and editing of a suggestion of reality. I can start with a skeleton, like a foundation illustration, perhaps taken from a life study or a photograph and then I start to manipulate that framework. All the time I am hoping for accidents with the paint as the accidents are usually the source of greatest productivity. Perhaps the accidents of paint give me a similar perspective as the viewer to the finished painting: the surprise at something fresh or something that is not immediately understood in its construction. This aspect of painting is like, perhaps, finding the uncontrolled intention.
I know when it’s right or, at least, tending towards right but I don’t know how to do it. If I knew how to do it, that there was a predetermined and guaranteed method, then it wouldn’t be the challenge that forces me to paint continually.
How can I explain to someone, and still sound rational, that I love the colour orange but cannot use it because I have never found the right orange for the right painting.
I’m not trying to be intentionally obscure but it is difficult trying to describe something in words that needs to be expressed in a visual language.
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sorry for posting anon but having trouble signing in.Hello guy. Just finished 4 paintings and am happy with the out come yet the last 2 paintings i've undertook just didn't work much to my frustration and one or two choice words. Its made me think why stress. My impatience to paint is sometimes my strength meaning that the urge to paint takes over the thought process before hand thus rather than choose aspacific topic and research it, I put the paint to board hoping somthing will happen and sometimes it does.
you are right about sometimes getting an effect and not sure how but a great feeling nevertheless when it happens. A complex medium that maybe only the painter understands. If i tried to explain to people around me why i paint they would think i was mad. Maybe i'll wait a week or 2 before i try something else.......WERES MY BRUSH. REDHED
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