Studio Time

This is an automatic painting with some loose intent behind it.

Sometimes it just feels more appropriate to start something with a brush. With a colored ground, you may actually have no choice. (I do tend to do lots of experiments with acrylic paint that at least define a starting point or give things a base color.) Pastels or colored pencils may show up on it and give you a usable drawing but it’s frequently easier to just go straight to paint. It can be a lot more fun as well. I started with circles for eyes, blocked in a loose drawing of a face and let the painting sort of work its way from there.

🙂 “Lunacy” is a sort of recurring theme with me. I’ve done quite a few variations on the idea. It’s inspired somewhat by the faces from older cartoons.

This is 18×24 inches… oil over acrylic on panel.