Slow Progress is sometimes the best of all.

by | Jul 12, 2014 | abstract paintings, artist processes, oil and cold wax medium

When I paint, it is usually with a large flurry of paint, gesture, mark-making. It doesn’t matter sometimes what comes first so it is okay to just let loose with acrylic

Then there are those other times when you have to slow down………..and that is not a bad thing. Oil painting is one such process. I have to slow down, look more, think more.

That has been the case with the last two paintings I started on at the same time. One is still waiting for more judgement. This one is progressing to the point I can show it. It may not be totally finished. Sometimes there is a little more finesse needed in the paint surface, or a dark or a line to be made that I will discover a little later. I have even turned it all around………it could be hung in about any direction, especially since it is a square.

The final title will be determined when I am sure, but it is another painting in my Annotation Series begun earlier this year.

Here are the three stages I photographed as time went past.

1st stages

1st stages

2nd stages, 36 x 36 oil on wood panel

2nd stages, 36 x 36 oil on wood panel

3rd and maybe final image, 36 x 36 oil on wood panel

3rd and maybe final image, 36 x 36 oil on wood panel

 

Essentially Finished

by | Jan 8, 2014 | abstract paintings, oil and cold wax medium

More layers and more layers over the past two days. These two 30 x 30 x 2 inch oil paintings are essentially finished. Having so much red, it will be a time before I can add some clear cold wax medium over them but I don’t think they will need anything else…or at least not much.

These are two of the new series I call Annotations. The exact titles are not determined  yet.

closerToFinish

closerToFinishLeft

closerToFinishRight