Birds

[johncomic]

My 41^st acrylic painting is... well I was going to say my first acrylic abstract, but it's actually my first successful one. [I tried once before, very early on, but was so dissatisfied with it that I painted over it... with something that was only marginally better, frankly.] At least, to me this one is a success: it turned out pretty much how I had in mind, from a visual idea that came to me back in the spring. But it took some reading about Abstract Expressionism over the past few days to give me the impetus to give this one a shot.

It's also my first painting to be given a formal title. I believe that a title can potentially contribute a lot to an abstract. And it's the first time I managed to get a bit of impasto work into one of my paintings — not sure how well that shows here, but IRL you can see it.