is the title of this work. Spent all day on this painting today. It's 20" x 40" acrylic media on canvas. Lots of layers, colours in Atelier interactives underneath, then black gesso. Next I scratched through the surface and layers, then worked over the surface in acrylic glazes. The image is based on a charcoal life drawing I've been meaning to use in a painting for some time. When photographing it at the end of the day, I realised that this pretty much reflects how I feel today, the hot colours in the figure, the scratching and scraping through the paint.
It's been raining here quite a lot, so perhaps the summer weather is going to return. My new vegetable garden is enjoying the rain. Three new garden beds right beside the house (the other garden is down a steep bank and not so easy to access). I've got one planted up and within 3 weeks am eating out of it.
I notice that the date on blogger is 25 December - northern hemisphere time. It's actually 26 December here, Christmas Day was yesterday. Was spent in Auckland following by a drive around th coast.
3 comments:
Thank you for the wishes, glad you had a nice day, though different. Hope you all enjoy the rest of the holiday season. :)
Ohh, this piece is incredible. Love the richness of colour, texture, and energy of the strokes and the glowing of the figure. What a great way to spend boxing day.
Thank you for your nice comment on my blog! Looking thru your photos I realize I have know you for awhile,thru your collage "dreaded". I don't know where or when I saw it but I have loved and admired it quite some time now. I have a folder of art I love and can look at often,sometimes I make a screen slide show of admired art,hope you don't mind. I would never use it as my own ever,I wouldn't want that myself. Nice to have your blog to see and will add your link if you don't mind.
Thanks for your comments. A link would be great. And of course I don't mind the idea of a folder of admired art...I have one myself!
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