Studio Time

I’m going to call this the first actual painting session. The others were simply to generate a sketch.

I liked the way the Miameri stuff was working, so… I mixed a 50/50ish blob of Yellow Ochre and Titanium White and got out the Sennelier Raw Umber and Caput Mortuum as well as the Winsor Newton Cadmium Red Deep.

I spent several hours listening to “space rock“, adding colors, developing forms and making things work together. I’m much more energized by this than I have been by a painting in quite some time. The only reason I put up the brushes was that the paint started to get a bit thick and “gloppy“.

I’m not a “wet on wet” painter by any stretch of the imagination. I don’t deal well with gooey paint that slides all over the canvas. It’s really rare that I’ll do something alla prima. One of my professors at S.I.U. taught traditional technique… underpaintings, glazes and so on and so forth. I may not adhere to those practices all that faithfully but I do implement aspects of them.

Anyway… this is coming together fairly quickly. I doubt you can see it in this image (A lot of it’s just subtle differences in color… brushstrokes. (“gloppy” 🙂 )) but I do have most of the forms defined. Next… color interactions… refinements and so on…