Experiments
I'm sort of liking this new painting. Again, it's something I was playing around with -- applying the paint using straight brushstrokes across the canvas rather than my usual more expressive manner. It has a landscape feel to it.
This one is fun, too. I like the look of the white on white background, but it's hard to work with. It makes the canvas bumpy and uneven, and paint settles into the low spots.
I overpainted one of the indigo washout pieces from yesterday. Here's a detail:
I'm still not sure where this washout piece is going. It needs something more, but what? For some reason I was thinking of the color of the red safelights in the darkroom scenes from the movie "Blowup," but this didn't turn out that color of red. Glazes are like that. They dry a lot lighter.
When was "Blowup" made -- the 1970s? I don't know why I would be thinking about that now, but that glowing scarlet red is very vivid in my mind.
This one is fun, too. I like the look of the white on white background, but it's hard to work with. It makes the canvas bumpy and uneven, and paint settles into the low spots.
I overpainted one of the indigo washout pieces from yesterday. Here's a detail:
I'm still not sure where this washout piece is going. It needs something more, but what? For some reason I was thinking of the color of the red safelights in the darkroom scenes from the movie "Blowup," but this didn't turn out that color of red. Glazes are like that. They dry a lot lighter.
When was "Blowup" made -- the 1970s? I don't know why I would be thinking about that now, but that glowing scarlet red is very vivid in my mind.
posted by Cassandra at 8:06 PM
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If it's the movie I recall, it was 1966. Here's a link to a description. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060176/plotsummary
The idea that a image has deep details, if you look closely enough, is an interesting one, certainly not limited to photographic images.
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