The photo was of the IBM building across the street from me on a rainy night, but I only use the photo to get started, after that the paint takes over and one paint stroke leads to the next. I generally pay attention only to the particular place where I am painting and it's a little hard to put them all together afterwards.
I’m beginning to get a sense of what Sara’s getting at here. You’re looking through a rain streaked window at a rain streaked window so how come the lines are straight? Could be fun to conceptualize.
ReplyDeleteOkay, I'm seeing some interesting correlations between your painting process and Alan and Sara's comments. When you do each bit separately, every bit is beautiful, but stands alone as a separate little jewel. Then you say it's hard to put them together afterwards. Maybe it's not so much the fact that the lines are straight that bothers people, but the fact that they are unbroken. If the trail of a raindrop occasionally broke through the gridding, it might unite the separate pieces, both for the viewer and for you as a painter. Or, if you don't want a literal raindrop trail, maybe just have a bit of the colors occasionally bleed together. But on the whole, I like these windows...even more so in person with the richer colors.
ReplyDeletePerhaps you can start your own you tube series on how to paint and why, including the best ways to critically analyze your work and anyone else's.
ReplyDeleteThe straight lines - both horizontal and vertical - create a strong dynamic that overpowers those beautiful watery colors. I like the variations in the blue colors. My least favorite part are the straight lines.
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