Well at Saturday's showtime I displayed the good, the bad, and the ugly. The good was the that storm tossed sailing ship or was it a dead cockroach, anyway I thought it had the perfect mix of order and chaos, both stepping to the fore, nodding to each other and stepping back respectfully.
The bad was, oh that tree whose first touch of paint and paper towel had struck a sharp looking image, but it was just a stroke of luck, I didn't deserve it, and I went on to paint a pretty solid trunk, but most people didn't like it so I called it the bad. I was going to do a massive overworking of it to please the masses, but I never got around to it.
So I just slapped a lot of paint around on a new sheet of yupo, especially perylene green, which behaved very badly, and that's why I called it the ugly. I was ready to chalk it up to you can't win them all. But amid the crowd of viewers I heard a slight murmur of maybe it can be saved. So the next day I took a lot of paper towel to it, and it came along surprising well, despite the grottiness, and then when I saw that red cat there on the bottom, I declared it yet another masterpiece.
Hmmm...I'm not sure I'd call it ugly in that first iteration. There's a lot of interesting things going on. I do like the clarity of color and shape in the original, but I like the layers and depth in the final too. I had to look for the cat; and when I spotted it, it looked like the monkey in Seurat's Grand Jatte. Final verdict: not ugly at all!
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