This week or next I hope to finish the 3 Lake Michigan paintings. Here is the skies painting (120x100cm). The one that had the bright pink and yellow underpainting!
I realised that while I'd painted the turquoise water to the horizon, the colour of the water actually changes going out to the horizon. So I wanted to play with a sharp line of white that will meet a white-grey of the bottom sky.
Borrowing some masking tape (how did I run out without noticing?) I masked off the strip to be white. (there is paper taped up to because I wanted to use a big brush and the tape was very thin - rather than use a lot of tape I just put up paper).
About 4 layers of zinc white. Not I'm not entirely sure it works and have already layers some more turquoise/blue/grey over the bottom line. But we shall see! It needs "breaking up" - I need to lose the very literal sense of sky that it currently has.
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love your work. Appreciate your sharing the process too, fascinating. Do you have any exhibitions in London before Xmas?
I love how this one is looking so far :)
Thanks guys. :) We'll see if Thurs and Fri are enough to finish off.
Fran, I have my current show at Blackheath Gallery until the end of October http://www.blackheath-gallery.co.uk/au2009.htm then the only other thing I'm doing is the WeMake Christmas fair on 5th December (Chelsea Town Hall - http://wemakelondon.blogspot.com/ ).
Love the white strip... it adds an unexpected and sort of mysterious dimension.
I work with lots of "horizons" altho my paintings are not literal "landscapes"... just plays with colors with shapes above and below.
but I somehow love the horizon concept as well.
But the white strip is really cool! Am curious to see what it evolves to.
Aren't you going cycling tomorrow?
Question Tina... Do you still like and use the Flick artist database?
Saw your early 2008 endorsement on their website... curious what you think now that you've used it for a while.
Thanks!
Carol, yes I'm off to Clacton-on-Sea stretch tomorrow. :) And yes, I still love Flick! From what I've noticed of other artists' question my needs seem simpler - I use it strictly to database paintings (with date, medium, etc) and location. So mainly I just know what is where at all times and can pull together a set of work for a show and print the consignment note. It can also do mailing/client lists and pricing but I don't use those features. It doesn't do accounts and I'm not sure if it does inventory for multiples like prints.
But still a thumbs up from me for paintings! :)
Great... thanks for the info... and happy trails!
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