RECLAIM / RECYCLE 3

Welcome to those who are new to my blog ! How are you? Everything going well with you all? Lets hope so. As for my project, it gathers pace! As you can see the latest picture change has gone really radical. I think I will have to look at it for a few days before deciding if Im happy with it. In the meantime I have lots of other paintings to recycle in the shed! lol. here is how the painting changed today:

Not at all happy with the changes I made a couple of days ago I started to make radical changes, but utilising what was already there as a kind of template.

As I applied more paint the original images began to vanish, just leaving a few hints of what was there before.

Smuding and blurring the edges of forms and finally hinting at wisps of smoke or thin clouds such as might be vapour trails running across it all. I have to say it looks far better in the studio than it does here , which is weird as most of my work appears so much better when digitally reduced. Not rushing into saying this is completed. I have an idea that copious amounts of varnish, perhaps with small amounts of colour added, may make an appearance on this, and perhaps others too. I am definately going the abstract route right now. It allows me to have fun and be serious at the same time. I dont know why I didnt do this at Uni. RIght at the start of the second year I produced two small abstracts and then, for reasons best known to the other person who lives in this body I absailed into figurative works ! It seems that if there is a hard way of doing something then generally speaking thats the way I do it. I think its about a need to prove myself to others as well as myself. I keep telling people life is too short for that kind of thing, so I suppose its about time I listened to my own advice, lol. Well, no phone call or email again today, but its o.k. , I didnt hang around waiting. I painted all day instead. Too wet for nice bike ride. May have to go into town tomorrow and get some varnish before the cash runs out. Has anyone had any thoughts on the big draw next year? I would love to participate in a huge collaboration of some kind in the drawing medium. O.K.that's it for today, more painting tomorrow.