Two birch trees with faces by the Humber river on a winter night across from the city.
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4 comments:
I can imagine this one as a huge mural....
it would make an awesome mural...I've been thinking of the Pine River series I did for the Strachan Project. I would like to do some more along that organic/hardedge inclusions type of abstraction. Pulling it off in Painter is another story though.
Tim,
Comparing Sunday Painting2 with this work, I would say that when you work on the computer, you allow yourself a greater range of colour, form, line, texture and value than you do when you make larger paintings. Partly, I'm sure this has to do with the speed of working on a computer, and of course, on the character of the paint you use. I think about that stuff all the time. Sometimes I switch up the medium to force different solutions. For instance, the three recent tondos and the work in Big Show, are all acrylics. I have another set of paintings on the go that I started in acrylics, but switched to oils in mid-stream to suggest a different approach. On a computer, there can never be drips, (or if there are drips, they're arbitrary, because there is no gravity). Gravity is a big issue with paintings, though, and sometimes, when I'm working with acrylics, I think of it as a tool, because it helps me create networks of lines that can only be made by dripping. On the other hand, with the computer, you can radically change everything in a flash, and you can add anything or obliterate anything so fast......
/mister anchovy
Thanks for your comments Mr. Anchovy. Yes that is all true, especially the time factor. Digital work is is it's own medium, I usually do one digital drawing in 90 minutes. How acceptable that is as fine art is unknown to me. I monitor flickr for number of views, but even that is not reliable as it depends on how networked you are. Painting is a greater challenge to me, and my true passion. Good painting in acrylics or oils can take months to complete. Recently in the studio I remind myself to settle into the process and let painting take over. The instant fix of computer work doesn't apply there. I'm working on one I started in July that has 3 sections. I've taped out areas and that takes drying time. I know what I would like to happen, but final solutions are never apparent from the beginning. That's what I like though, the magic that happens when creativity comes through the process. All said; neat things do come up in my digital drawings and of course the relationship to photographic inclusions and manipulations is a big part of the fun on computer.
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