I should say that I am a pretty...particular...painter. I am slow. I take months to finish a painting. I find myself spending lengths of time making the tiniest adjustments to a painting to make it just right. Just so. I love the process and I love searching for that punch in the gut that happens when you nail it (rare, by the way) but it can be frustrating to work day in and day out, for hours, and not have finished pieces to show for it more often.
The photos above, though thought about and considered, are snapshots in comparison to how long I labor over a painting. They are awkward. Angles seem off and shapes and colors are disproportionate to what I usually create in my paintings. They are mostly vertical while my paintings are mostly horizontal in reference to the landscape. I'm thinking about this discrepancy, and trying to figure out what these, and other, tendencies mean.
While my paintings don't look anything like the compositions above, they are helping my painting. This attraction to things being "off" is nudging me into some new territory, where I am letting go a bit, allowing things to be as awkward in my paintings as they are in reality.
It's all really, very exciting.
Eventually, you'll get to see the paintings that result from all of this. Just you wait...I'll wait too.
Forever yours,
Beatrice
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horizontal/vertical...light/dark...yin/yang..flood/drought...the cars of reality go around and around the track of possibility until the fumes of the journey, like artistic perfume, spill onto the canvas in the form of whatever perfection is possible from the hand of a human holding a brush. slow? so is the best pulled pork.
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