Thursday, October 29, 2015

Week 2 of 30 day Painting on the Same Canvas

My thoughts for this week:


Entering the second week of the challenge with a complete paint over.  I love Black gesso and it occurred to me that I could paint over everything from week 1 with Black gesso and then see what happened during the following seven days.  This could be brilliant or a disaster, but it is only paint and can be covered over.  I am trying to embrace abstract painting and it is a challenge.  I was thinking about it this morning and abstract painting reminds me of algebra (which gave me loads of problems).  I am an accounting type of person, so my natural inclination is to paint something concrete; flowers, trees, birds, etc.



Day 8
Black Gesso, Golden Interference Paint, Gold Paint and Golden Fluid Acrylic for drips
Day 9
Acrylic paint, Patti Tolley-Parrish Pod Stencil, Stencil 101 border stencil

Day 10
Added Alcohol Ink splatters to the painting, knocked back with light wash of white
Gesso.
Day 11
Gesso, Acrylic Paints, fine liners



Day 12
Addition of color blocks using Silks Acrylic Glazes


Day 13
Mark Making with black stabilo pencil and black grease pencil,
Stencil girl club flourish stencli


Day 14
More mark making and subtle changes with white gesso

Observations for the week:  This week started out with painting black gesso over the entire canvas.  The colors of last week disappeared but the delicious texture remained.  While the black was start, the introduction of color during the remaining days brought out stunning changes (if I say so myself).

I place the canvas where I can live with it all day, I find that I really enjoy looking at the changes each day, but I am not married to it meaning that I am eager to make changes an see what will happen.

I am still a little tentative in my approach.  I hope that by then end of this challenge I will be less tentative and more go for the gusto.


2 comments:

Christine said...

Just incredible changes this week!! I love this entire process. It would be so easy to have stopped any of a number of times along the way and declared it "done" -- and "done" successfully. But you are holding to the process of learning to let go and just explore. It makes me want to give this a try, too. Keep on the journey -- we're all enjoying it right along with you. Yay you!!!

Pilgrim said...

Christine, you are so kind. I was thinking about the process this morning because it is so freeing and I see that it can have positive impacts on many parts of my life. I really think this is something all artists should do periodically. It opens you up.