Micklegate Bar, York
Feb. 20th, 2021 04:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johncomicMy thirtieth acrylic painting is, yes, another in my UK series, and this one has a more unusual genesis. Back when I painted St. Wilfrid's, I began with a red undercoat and put down my preliminary rough linework in blue, which gave me this:
The thing is, there was something about this that I really liked, the energy of those colours against each other, and the way they would vibrate in some lights... and I was very tempted to leave it there. But, for one, it struck me as a bit too rough to consider a finished work. And, for another, it was intended as a gift for someone whose tastes ran in other directions. I told myself that someday I would come back to this blue on red concept and create a less representational work with it. And Micklegate Bar, York is that work. [I have a feeling I will return to this subject and approach it from yet another angle, as I feel that a more impressionistic attempt could also be pretty satisfying.]
The thing is, there was something about this that I really liked, the energy of those colours against each other, and the way they would vibrate in some lights... and I was very tempted to leave it there. But, for one, it struck me as a bit too rough to consider a finished work. And, for another, it was intended as a gift for someone whose tastes ran in other directions. I told myself that someday I would come back to this blue on red concept and create a less representational work with it. And Micklegate Bar, York is that work. [I have a feeling I will return to this subject and approach it from yet another angle, as I feel that a more impressionistic attempt could also be pretty satisfying.]
