Category: Improvisation With Bird

• A little More Improvisation

  

  Usually, when you sand down a painting, it removes the high spots and doesn’t really mess with the painting a whole lot. Imagine my surprise when the image just sort of disappeared the moment the sander hit it this time. It was a pain but I just repainted what I had there following whatever traces were left and the photo I had on the studio computer.

  This is an absolute mess but I think I finally got it to work. The way I see it in my head works anyway. 🙂 The composition doesn’t seem quite as “off” as it did previously. I can see some potential in the forms as well.

  Colors: Sennelier’s Prussian Blue, Titanium White, Naples Yellow and Sepia as well as Winsor Newton’s Cadmium Red Deep, and Purple Madder.

  October 7, 2023

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• Improvisation With Bird

  I was digging through the paintings on my paint shelves and ran across a couple of paintings that I made last year. Essentially, they were finished but I wasn’t really all that fond of the results. So… I decided to rework them.

  

  This is the first painting. I sort of like it but it strikes me as overly simple and I’m not really fond of the horizontal forms. I think that they throw off the flow of the whole thing.

  

  This second image is after a couple of hours (Two sessions, actually.) with Sennelier’s Alizarin Crimson and Titanium White as well as Miameri’s Yellow Ochre and some Phthalocyanine Blue that I had left on my pallet. I’m not sure that this will stay this way. The composition is a little wonky. I still need to spend some time sanding out the lines from the previous version of this as well. That will change things a bit. I do think this works a bit better. I like it a lot more anyway. We’ll see how it goes…

  October 5, 2023

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