As I mentioned in pubski a couple of weeks ago, I started painting again.
The image and color are poor, due to condensation in my phone camera from when I spilled a beer on it; but it's close enough. It's 24"x18", oil on 1/4" birch plywood. I built a frame for it today, which I am staining. I was going to give it away or sell it, but my wife wants to keep it.
I was trying to infuse it with loneliness and the quiet of winter, plus a little something else. I'm happy with the result, but I'm not as confident with my brush as I would like to be. The last time I painted a natural scene about 15 years ago I can tell I was a bit more in practice, although it was 3'x6' and done with house paint.
I am looking forward to the next painting, and I am going to stick with a natural scene. I have a feeling for where I might be headed, but I think it's going to take at least a few paintings to figure it out.
I was in Norway with mike and steve in September, and I want to paint something from that trip. I have a few images that I am interested in for various reasons, but I haven't decided on which one to paint, or to paint first. I am open to suggestions. Here are the images, which I'll probably take some liberties with:
I am leaning towards 3 as well. However, its composition is extremely similar to this winter scene. Then again, so is 1. Maybe I just learned something about myself. I do see a face in the rocks in the last one. That image really doesn't do the scene justice. It was later in the day, and the contrast between the warm light in the leaves and the cool bark of the trees was more striking. Perhaps I'll paint them in succession.
You've got skills my friend. I want an mk original for our home. Let's make that happen. As for what your next project should be, I like the last image a lot.
So, a self-portrait, TNG and who for the third? insomniasexx?
I feel like your interest in Rothko manifests itself in the photos you take (in a good way). You have a very horizontal sensibility, and everything is divided in thirds. Maybe that's what attracted you to that Khaaan photo. It has the same proportions and textural qualities.
I never realized that had such a preference in composition. But I agree with your observation. I hope to evolve as I paint more pieces. If there's anything I don't like about this painting, it's that it has a bit of 'starving artist' to it. It could be less literal. That's part of what I was trying to get at about confidence in my brush. That being said, I don't want to just settle into impressionism, or a minimalist representationalism. If possible, I'd like the images to evoke as much as they represent, and yet, not go too far that way either. This picture is lonely, but it's not unforgivingly lonely. I wish it were a bit more so.
Well then, you seem to have a lot of available capital.