Here is the painting I mentioned in my last post. I worked on it for about 50 hours, painting the whole canvas (6ft/4ft) in one sitting and then repainting it the next time and so on, until I was ok with it. I used a lot of paint and really enjoyed the experience of applying it and working out how to progress with the image. It feels like a puzzle you have to solve and it gets quite engaging. It was hard to leave it late at night when I just wanted to carry on. Most nights I stopped when I got to a plateau I could let rest. I took photos most nights after I stopped so I could study the image and work out or feel what it needed. It became a sort of struggle between total abstraction and almost realism. You'll see the very first layers were completely abstract, and from a doodle I made with my nephew who was practicing using a ruler! It was probably inspired by my studio and its beams, though it also reminded me of the division of land from above. Later I finished one day on a near figurative depiction which I actually liked least. The colour was a struggle too but then that's kind of what its all about and maybe I shouldn't explain all this. Maybe its better just to let the image speak for itself. I never know about that. That is why I paint after all, words kind of move around too much for me. Images do what I tell them, words don't so much, well they do, they are just movable, like I say.
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