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johncomicI decided to share my seventeenth painting here because it has a bit of an interesting story to it.
This is based on a photo of author-slash-polymathblissmorgan, a friend for a good few years now. How her picture came to be a painting happened like this:
I was looking at my acrylic paints, and I was struck by the way that all my cadmium paints -- Cadmium Red Medium, Cadmium Orange, and Cadmium Yellow Light -- look like nothing found in nature. It's even a challenge to blend them with other paints and mix a colour that doesn't still have a whiff of that plastic artificial feel to it. Suddenly I thought that it might be fun to try using those colours, full blast, to depict something that absolutely is natural and organic -- I felt that the tension might give the painting an interesting energy.
Didn't know what to paint, though.
So I spent a while browsing through photos, looking for inspiration... and when I came across this, it struck me that the tones in the face would lend themselves to my cadmium colours very easily. So I went for it, and ended up pretty satisfied with the result, more abstracted than what I usually do. Hoping to find an avenue for more adventurous colour again, sometime in future....
This is based on a photo of author-slash-polymath
blissmorgan, a friend for a good few years now. How her picture came to be a painting happened like this: I was looking at my acrylic paints, and I was struck by the way that all my cadmium paints -- Cadmium Red Medium, Cadmium Orange, and Cadmium Yellow Light -- look like nothing found in nature. It's even a challenge to blend them with other paints and mix a colour that doesn't still have a whiff of that plastic artificial feel to it. Suddenly I thought that it might be fun to try using those colours, full blast, to depict something that absolutely is natural and organic -- I felt that the tension might give the painting an interesting energy.
Didn't know what to paint, though.
So I spent a while browsing through photos, looking for inspiration... and when I came across this, it struck me that the tones in the face would lend themselves to my cadmium colours very easily. So I went for it, and ended up pretty satisfied with the result, more abstracted than what I usually do. Hoping to find an avenue for more adventurous colour again, sometime in future....
