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April 07, 2006
Darker days
Oh dear it all seems to be getting a bit dark at the moment.
It can get lighter again once it’s dried. I don’t know where it’s going at the moment. That is: I don’t have a fixed idea that I am trying to achieve. I don’t have a plan or a rough or any particular layout. I react to what I see as the painting progresses and I move things along as required.
I don’t have an objective that I establish and then set about accomplishing with a set of skills and techniques. I use skills and techniques to achieve effects during the painting to try and convey feelings. This means it’s really hard to tell when a painting is “finished”, in a way a painting is never finished, I just stop painting it.
I do have a feeling that I want to convey, I do have a feeling of how I want the painting to look, but it isn’t something I can draw out beforehand and then colour in.
Posted by john at April 7, 2006 11:59 PM