Week 27 experiments

Monday, 22nd May

No.42 – I started using a new technique – applying random marks on the paper, then spraying water on them, and letting the images emerge organically out of the marks, then painting into them. I love the results.

No.43 – I love this little painting.

Tuesday, 23rd May

No.44-46 – Some experiments using the same same technique on a lighter ground. I’ll keep experimenting with various ground colours, but so far I prefer the dark ground.

Wednesday, 24th May

No.47-48 – more experiments, with less and more drawing respectively. I feel there is quite a bit of scope for these paintings.

Thursday, 25th May

No.49-50 – these are heading more in the direction I want to go, its getting the balance between form and abstraction right. I love the palette of these.

Friday, 26th May

No.51 – This was my breakthrough piece this week. I love everything about it. I want to continue exploring this kind of painting, with the grand aim of scaling up.

Saturday, 27th May

No.52 – I thought I take a break from the figurative paintings this weekend, and instead explore this lace-bubble technique further, which is for a different project. The more opaque centre-right bubble was done with an a gel-pen drawing underneath, the rest were painted directly. I much prefer the latter. The aim of the experiment is to see what the lace-bubbles look like covering the entire surface of a painting. Unfortunately, the underpainting of this one isn’t very good, as I rushed it, and the paper doesn’t suit this kind of painting (which is much better suited to fine-grain canvas/linen), still, it will give me an idea of what the coverage looks like.