Making their images bigger because I am moving on to 9x12. This baby bear started of as completely non representative and I kept it that way.
Mama bear started out as non rep but that bottom center shape kept getting stronger and I turned it into a yucca plant of maybe seaweed. I like it but I have this nagging fear that it looks like something that was bought at a starving artists show to hang over the sofa in their Arizona-themed front room.
And papa bear has started out from a photo of a tomato flower. I think I have most of the paint in the right places now I just need that yupo nudge to contort it.
I'm in love with the way your paint looks on Yupo. I'm generally not an abstract fan, but I can't stop looking at the first painting. Same goes for #2. The colors are so rich and I'm not seeing sofa art at all. I'm waiting for #3 to get more layers in--I trust you to make it work! Also, I'm glad you're still working in Yupo, and bigger.
ReplyDeleteIs the new Yupo white or translucent? I don’t see starving artists either. #2 looks like you are letting the paint do more of its own thing on the surface. Don’t see a hint of BEARS though.
ReplyDeleteI'm using the thick opaque white because it's heavy and doesn't move around under the brush.
DeleteInteresting. I'm glad you're going bigger using Yupo. My fav so far is the first one.
ReplyDelete#1 has a lot of movement and color. I like all the color mixing. I like #2, but the division between light and dark doesn’t work for me. I guess the bottom half is interesting but not the top half.
ReplyDeleteI usually try to put in a background that competes with the foreground, but I was working from bottom to top and I wanted to keep the fronds of the yucca unencumbered so I went with the blue/pink (possibly sunrise), so as not to compete with the yucca.
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