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| #1 BREAKTHRU |
I took a workshop with Aletheia Schmidt and had fun dropping, blowing, scraping, and imprinting acrylic inks on Yupo paper. We all ignored all the pressures to adhere to the principles and elements of design and did whatever we wanted. I could get very bogged down with all the things to remember when painting, such as: line, value, color, hue, intensity, texture, shape, size, direction, unity, conflict, dominance, repetition, alternation, balance, harmony, and gradation. It was very freeing to just have fun. A lot of the texture is from spritzing rubbing alcohol on the paint.
I blew the paint with a straw on #1. That's how I got the lines moving off the page. On #2 I tried making a dark cross angled on the page. My favorite part is the two tiny holes (in the circle with the red dot center) that appear to be on fire. I find it's beneficial to play and risk when painting - to find little, new things that I like and can incorporate in my realistic paintings.
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| #2 NEW |
