Enveloping, quiet, vivid, comforting, safe
Wow, one bright yellow green leaf !
Gone
Still
Quivering
Momentary
Restful
Light, gentle
Private
Thoughts on painting in my studio space in the woods.
‘The thingness of the thing.’
1. The feeling tone holds the key to the painting.
2. Content
3. Form, Line, space, color and texture – Do they support the feeling I want?
At the moment of existence, it is what it is.
Feelings ‘predictable. Chances of my feelings at the moment’ Cezanne
Before I left for an invitational painting workshop in Portland, I cut the canvas for vertical trees, but when I stood in the space in the woods my immediate reaction was this is going to be a square painting. I went with my first thought. Square – 4 square canvases, which at the end will work as a set of four. At the end of the day, the painting did not look like how I intended it to be, but it did convey my feeling in this space with the sunlight flickering through the trees.
#1 acrylic on canvas 32″ x 32″ unfinished
The next morning the painting looked like it had two eyes looking at me so I painted out one of them. Now the painting is split in half. I’ll continue working on it back in the studio at home.
An exhibition, Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953-1966, is at the de Young Museum. It seems that there is always a prominent vertical line in his paintings, even more so than his horizontal lines. I just noticed that my transitions from picture or blog has verticals, not intentional – just think it is interesting.
A beautiful painting. Love the colors. Rlte
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A good book is A Practical guide to freeing the artist within – Expressive Drawing by Steven Aimone
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Carla, A great progression of art and thought. You captured the feeling of the place very well. I am so glad you posted these photos and text. Waiting for more….
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That is beautiful Carla painting and words, and I love the “studio”!!! Perfect!
🙂
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It’s so great to see this take form. It really captures the mood of the setting, and the light. I’m looking forward to seeing the end result.
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I think I’m a diagonal kind of guy but it seems I’m more vertical. Ahihihi 😀
Ow, i don’t get the picture at all, and don’t know squat how to see feelings or emotion from it. And I love it that way. 😉
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Oh this is beautiful..the colours and light just dance – I can see a small crowd in the left looking up, pointing and gazing in wonder..
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Also, I very much like your idea of conveying the “feeling” – the colours are surprising but very much have the feeling shown in your photographs..
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I’m glad to hear that. I’m glad someone else sees what I was trying to do! It was a fantastic week. I learned a lot and will post each days progress.
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This one I’m about to go back to. It will be interesting how I remember the moments back then.
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