It’s kind of amazing to me what can happen in the studio of an abstract painter. Â If you let the painting talk to you, you can discover what it wants to be.
I started working on this canvas last fall. Â Then, I was just doodling around on it, trying out different brushstrokes and experimenting with techniques. Â I achieved some very cool results, but not what I would call a painting, as all the little parts didn’t hang together.
I started working on it again the other night. I kept trying to add loops in the big space; I painted them in and then out again at least half a dozen times. Â I was planning to repaint the entire surface, even though there were bits from the previous work on it that I hated to lose. Â I painted over most of those bits more than once and then wiped it out again.
I wasn’t planning for the palette to come out like this, either.  But painting this way is one stroke and then the next, and then a response to that and then another, until you end up with something that does hang together.
This is yet another work that is a bit different for me, both in composition and color palette…and I must say, I really, really like it!