I’ve been working a lot with encaustic lately so I let the beginnings of an acrylic painting wait. Not a good idea if you want to continue your conversation with that painting. I had a purple ground on the painting. It really wasn’t working for me by the time I got back to it. You know how it is…the gesture is wrong, you are just ‘off’.
Yesterday late I decided to just start working it over with a warm ochre color and go from there. I dug out pencils, pastels, paints and any other thing I could think of to shake things up a little. I got a good base going…or at least something to paint into and over.
Today I got going on it a lot more and it probably is finished……………it went from a cool, horizontal purple ground to a warm vertical painting with the feeling of the current Meander series paintings. I consider it finished and titled it Meander 4.
Meander 4 acrylic on canvas 48 x 36 x 1.5 inches
Well you know I cannot exist without yellow ochre so I consider this stunningly beautiful!!! I think it looks great and it certainly is of the meander lineage! I really like this series, it is fresh and free of any restrictions which seems really nice to me…I will see you when we meander on down to Utica next week!
ha ha… meander we will. I haven’t got anything going to pack up yet. i’ll be out all day tomorrow so I better get cracking.