Monday, 19 October 2015

Windows and little gems of paintings!

Hi
I am starting this blog with the aim of updating once a week or so with updates on my art practice and other things art related that interest me....I hope you enjoy it.

For a few years now I have kept my old paint palettes, tear off palettes, bits of old card or plastic that I have mixed paint on ....the evidence of the effort that has gone into each successful and unsuccessful painting I have done -  convinced that I would use them in some way. Recently I started cutting them up in deliberate sections and then working into each piece as a new painting. I am really pleased with the results and am working on arranging them in a way that somehow makes the whole greater than the sum of the parts. When people see them they usually pick out a favourite and that's pleasing because I feel that I have had a little relationship with each one. They are like little individual gems to me!

I realised I like both the small scale (each piece approx 4 x11cm) and the slightly stained glass effect when you start to put them together. It has inspired me to start a project on trees in a similar fashion.  More on that later....

Here you can see some of the cut up sections

I have framed each one to work into it, this was so enjoyable

Later when I had a few I played with arranging them....great fun, the eye reads patterns and connections, some work, others don't.

 

2 comments:

  1. Lovely - what will you do with them once you have the arrangement you want?

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    1. aha that's the thing! I have two sets of arrangements now on my studio floor just seeing if I am happy with them and it looks to me that I will need a set of three or four panels.....then I might get them mounted.

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