So I made a little reel and posted it on Instagram, showing the lead up to a series of 10 paintings I working on right now – six out of ten finished, I think. The project started years ago as the last assignment in my Composition class, just before I moved from Atlanta to Chicago, and languished for quite some time
I joined the Creative Strength Training this year, and also one of the focus groups focused on creating in a series, and it finally pushed me to get the original sketches transferred to paper and then to get to painting.
They won’t be perfect, of course, but working through the puzzle that is resolving a painting is a frustrating joy, and since “resolve” was my word of the year, it’s appropriate that they will finally, literally, come out of the closet.
Here, take a look, I start with the “still life”, which I made 30 drawings of , each 20 x 30, from different angles. Those were layered over one another, three at a time, rotated and flipped until I got a composition I liked. Then, I was inspired by the color palette of our favorite Italian villa, which led to the mess of paint tubes and pots full of mixtures – now I’m fully in to the mixed media layers of it all!