Studio Time

I decided that the Queen needed to dry for a day or two. I paint with a lot of glazes. “Dry to the touch” is generally good enough. Occasionally, something needs to get a little more solid.

This has been hanging around waiting for me to finish it for a while now. (I may have mentioned somewhere that I usually work on 20-30 images at a time.) This first image is what it looked like prior to yesterday’s session. I probably could have just cleaned it up and called it finished. I rather like what’s going on in the image.

I decided that it needed to be green and a bit more contrasty before I could truly love it. After the past few days with the Dark Queen, I’m liking the “psychedelic” idea as well. This seems like the sort of image that would support that and I think I can push it a little bit further.

This second image is the painting after I outlined the forms in Winsor Newton’s phthalocyanine green and blended that back in to things. I rendered things a bit with Sennelier’s Naples yellow light and scrubbed in the purples with a mix of their dioxazine purple and titanium white.

This is destined for the next group show at the Collective Gallery. I should probably pay it some attention.

One of the benefits of having a digital copy is that I can quickly try out changes on the computer and get an idea of what things will look like if I make a specific change. I can always click undo or work on a copy or something. I have some ideas I want to try out. 🙂