This painting is inspired by design elements that I saw as I walked around the facility. Lately I’ve been basing some of my work on patterns and when I saw the pagoda I thought it had some great patterns in it that I could work into a painting – ditto the windows of the stone hut.
I decided to combine those design elements into a little "painted collage" - hope my ideas work!
I drew a design from the pagoda around the border of the piece and added the window from the stone hut - that building fascinates me! I also liked the hydrangea bloom and added it in, taking one "floweret" and placing it into the window space. Then I misketed the whites, wet the canvas and swiped on blues and yellows and browns, then as the piece dried I spattered various color with a toothbrush.
As soon as I started defining some of the "x" shapes, I realized I'd forgotten about the ones inside the window area, and quickly added them. I also began adding some yellow to the flower center.
I began adding greens and some shadows.
4 comments:
Love this start! Very different and exciting.
You are so creative. Looking forward to seeing what you do next.
I like where you're going with this and how you've taken bits and pieces and created something new and interesting :) Love that sap green!
Thanks ladies - I couldn't get too excited about the idea for this show since, when I went there, it was rather overcast and not much blooming - but the overall designs that I saw intrigued me - which brought up this idea.
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