Again, I trace the making of artworks hoping to find out why
Thinking of the way light refracts through branches and makes kind-of trapezoid shapes between them. Its a very deep, almost buried detail but I feel it does come through. Layers and layers and depths
I love these shapes
I bought this shirt in Rome and wear it weekly
These pines are something else, the shapes seem prehistoric, so blunt and primal
Present day
Present day, I have to clean up the background and finish the painting.
This is what I do: get it to a point where I think its pretty good, then push it over to ruin, then see if I can bring it back.
I dug pretty hard into the dried paint on this, which took the surface back to raw wood in places. Its gonna be a drag fixing that due to the mica pigment present in the background paint, which is very difficult to touch-up successfully. Super annoying.
But I have to break it or it won’t have spirit
Ancient Roman tools for decorating terracotta
Looking at the above images, there’s a scrap of tissue on top right which is where I grab the board to swing it down horizontal where I can work on it. Its a big board I had made specially in a heavier Birch ply, to support the application of ornaments.
I have some bronze nails to hammer them home but I’m getting a lot of feedback to not apply them at all. I’m a little stuck. God has not communicated how I am to proceed so I wait and time stretches on, which in this way becomes an actual material component in the work. Time.
Very spikey when you cut them
I do like working on things horizontally, like sculpture. I am compelled in a way I do not understand to break the 2D into 3.
Replaced an old, very niche specialist paintbrush - which has been trimmed down a few too many times - from Melbourne Etching Supplies and, got two. Which explains me completely
Paprika shrub at Continental Deli, which has become somewhat favoritised
In addition to painting this and other surfaces, I undertook a range of activities in various locations over the last three months. I have felt ambivalent and non-compliant regarding posting because I just wanted to do the work and be entertained by the range and locations, but tracking the artmaking process here the reason for this website, because its important to me and itself part of the process; it takes time to make. I’ll post later on some recreation. Amazing.
Panna cotta every time at the above mentioned. They crystallise flowers for decoration but you can eat them
See you next time