My issue right now is to bring together all the various things I've produced as I've been ridiculous and indecisive to make them into a cohesive body of work. I don't know if you guys can picture them...but the last two I did, of Laura cross-legged in charcoal on wood, and one of a little girl on the giant greyish canvas...are more reflective of the style I'm trying to bring them all together in.
The other day, Mrs. McBride said that what I do is I paint over things...haha whoops...so I thought why not make that what pulls everything together? I have some pieces from Scholastic that are of figures with parts blurred out or painted over, and all together with the last few I've done it's almost as though I haven't been running around like a chicken with its head cut off. I definitely need to add layers and cohesion to all of them, and big time throw a few of them out, but I think I'm going for something along the lines of Obscurity/Emergence, layering on and taking away...in my head it's kinda become parallel to how this year has been, art wise...what comes out of the foggy obscurity in your head, the little moments of clarity in the fuzziness...
PHOENIX.
This is the last big push, and I'm hoping I can make this work and make sense...thank you everyone for putting up with my scatterbrainedness and for taking things away from me before I can ruin them and for all around being wonderful!
These are three I did before that I want to make work...the first would need that added layer of obscurity...do you think it would work well with it???
And the other two are ones that have a level of obscurity, but I'm not sure how well they go with the ones I've just done...ghweiogweoi I wish I had those to post up buuuuut anyhoo, do you think they could work with them/are they obscure enough? I'm thinking if nothing else, a cohesive color pallet could save the day.
I think the bottom one with the butts could work for what you are talking about because they aren't fully drawn figures and are loosely painted like the one of the girl with the balloon. I also think the one with the girl sleeping could work as well i think they work together more than you think and the way you paint is pretty distinct so they look like they belong. The only thing that throws me off with the first one is the color pallet because you have been using more neutral colors but I think you will figure it out and make it work!
ReplyDeleteI think that the second and third pieces completely go with your concentration. You have a unique way of painting and the colors you use make your concentration really work. Its just the first one doesn't really work. It's an awesome idea and you executed it beautifully, I just think you need to mess it up and paint over parts of it and add some random shapes and lines. Its too clean cut to go with the rest of your concentration. Good luck!
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