Been working on some new pieces, some with simple imagery with an added layer of random transparent forms making up a large block of the painting. Here it creates an undertexture in the background which forms the sky on this untitled painting, a 12″ by 12″ canvas. It has the same sort of chaotic feeling that I often try to create with my preliminary layers of gesso in prepping the panel on which I paint. This canvas does have those layers of gesso giving it a mild texture but the transparent organic shapes painted over it have an overriding effect that carries and defines the sky here.
It’s still an experiment in progress but so far I like the effect and the feeling it creates here. Now I am trying to envision how it might incorporate itself in the wider body of my work, to see if it adds something tangible to the work. I have to just give it a little time and study it a bit before it becomes a regular part of my work.
We’ll see…
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