Monday, October 14, 2024

Order and chaos


 This is postcard size. It was originally just an abstract of green, yellows, and darks, but as I finished it the Florida hurricanes hit CNN and I thought it looked a bit like palms flailing in the wind so I added those dark shapes that could be seagulls or debris caught in the deadly winds.


I like the contrast of order and chaos (broken patterns).  In this one I started out with those vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines and at one point it had a nice chaotic look, but as I kept on (Everytime you paint over you lose what is beneath) the order was just too strong.  I still like the rusty crusty center though.


Here I started with a less symmetric set of lines and chaos was able to hold its own.  Out of control I thought this morning as I was finishing it up, but then that yellow explosion held everything together I thought.



This are croppings from that last painting.  See this is what I like where stuff is painted over and over the whole thing looks scraggly and dirty, but I don't know if anybody else likes that stuff. 

6 comments:

  1. I like the birds scattering before a storm painting a lot. I also really like the third one--that yellow light coming through the rusty lattice makes it! I think you've imposed too much order on that middle one, but that's my opinion! As for the croppings, I miss some light/dark contrast.

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  2. I like the interplay of light and dark in 1,3, and 5. 5 is especially interesting , with that glowing band of orange taking the eye thru the bluish background. Those streaks of orange in 1 have a similar effect.

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  3. 2,3, and 4 don’t interest me. 1&5 look really interesting on my pc with a large screen. Even better on large screen tv. I didn’t like 1 until I enlarged it. The glow in 5 is really nice.

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  4. 4 and 5 are croppings taken from 3.

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  5. I kinda liked the first postcard that had a tree limb look. But you tend to "tweak" your images so much on the computer that they turn into something else completely in terms of color, contrast, focus, etc. What's the point?

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