Why do I paint? I like the process of painting, the challenge. I lay down one stroke, That stroke calls for another stroke and the process continues until I have a “there it is” moment, when the painting is done. My tool – This brush has traveled with me from studio to studio. The material – Medium weight cotton duck canvas stapled to the wall. I covered the surface with gesso, a paint medium used as a base to protect the raw canvas. While I am in the process of covering the canvas with a base, I really like what happens. Priming the canvas I start in the middle and work my way out. This application of paint tightens the canvas as I work my way out to the edges. I’ll end up a with a nicely taut canvas with no wrinkles. But first look at this! There’s a painting right here. In the first image I like the dark square on the natural color rectangle; rounded 3 dimensional wrinkles or lines radiate outward. The second image is a pleasing shape playing with the original support, the picture plane.The third image becomes a photograph of an abstract image showing variation in lines created with a big brush, drips and wrinkled canvas – reminds me of Franz Kline. http://www.gagosian.com/artists/franz-kline
I just visited Soulages’ museum in Rodez, i love to look at spaces as much as at shapes ;O)
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Oh I love Soulage. Yes, I wonder why people talk about negative space. Negative space is just as important as the shapes.
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Great! Is it for sale or have you painted over it now? 😥
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I’m flattered you are interested in the canvas. But yes, it is painted over now. We have only the photograph 🙂 I’ve enjoyed reading about your book. Your blog is quite interesting
to me. Glad you are writing it.
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Just kidding about the canvas Carla; though it did look great, I agree. Thanks for your kind comment about the blog. I fear that my rather formal writing style doesn’t appeal to North Americans, and yet oddly my site stats show high views from that part of the world. Weirdly, and rather wonderfully, I get quite a few painters come along. This is great, because I’m a collector of abstract work and am fascinated by the whole process, which is why I’m here of course.
Hariod. ❤
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🙂
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I have to say, i love it as a painting the way it is – it has real presence.
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It only stayed that way for awhile. Now it lives on as a photograph!
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Thank you for sharing the process. Exciting to be at your side seeing the canvas change.
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Thank you. I’ll see if i can keep it up for awhile.
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Ah, what a conversation, Carla!!!! You are making me look for empty walls in my house! 😉
That first dark square draws me in! 🙂
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Go get some canvas and paint one 🙂 Then let me see!
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Limited space! I have managed to cover every inch of the house with libraries and -relatively- very few paintings!] For now I’m enjoying my ‘Klee’ period [small sized work! 😉 I just felt a little nostalgic of those freeing big movements. 🙂
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YES!! XO, N.
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It’s big. We will see if I can make a relatively nice painting out of it.
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How lovely to walk through your process with you.
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As you know a lot of thoughts go through our heads while we make something 🙂 It’s a running conversation.
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I really love it like this too. The great thing about something so minimal is that you feel meaning in every drip and line..love how the bowl and brush form part of it too. More please! 🙂
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OK I’ll try it for awhile. Thanks for the encouragement. really!
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Great! And thankyou for all your encouragement to ME too, Carla, means a lot! 🙂
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I like each image – it’s enjoyable seeing the process, and I’m an old 60’s – 70’s minimalist at heart.
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