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I didn't attend class this week. 3 million people expected in Chicago for the fireworks and Taste so I opted out of driving through that madness on Roosevelt and 90 and stayed home. Next week I will start a new canvas and new subject. I want to head in a different direction.
I remember an instructor once told me that Norman Rockwell wrote about the ugly stage. **(before going any further I am stating this as hearsay, from about 12 years ago, and I may even have the artist wrong, but I still believe it is good advice)** That an artist gets to the stage, a little more than halfway through, and loathes everything about what they are doing; the technique, concept or subject, and cannot seem to find the direction in which to go, to finish. He/or she cannot look with fresh eyes at the progress made.
Been away from this painting for about two days: still flat, colors muted and muddy, the feet are ridiculous, and I need more of a light source. I am a little more than halfway done.
I love to paint: the process, the layering of warm and cool colors, looking at everything semi-abstractly; breaking everything into simplified shapes and forms. Using juicy layers of paint: creating saturated, vibrating color.
Heavy body acrylics, gloss gel medium/varnish, on 20" x 24" stretched canvas.
I am hoping that posting this picture will allow me to really see the progress compared to the last photo. Plan on working on it today.
