I painted two paintings today for an upcoming show a the Front Street Gallery. The title of the show is "Driven to Abstraction", and as a gallery artist I wanted to include a couple of abstract paintings.
As a representational artist, I typically try to paint objects or scenes fairly accurately in terms of color and hue.
My idea of abstract was to use totally saturated color for these paintings.
That is, each paint stroke uses paint 'straight out of the tube'. I also used the palette knife quite a bit. For some real juicy spots, I used Gambin Galkyd gel medium.
To further turn my brain on it's side, I also
used a couple of colors not typically on my palette: cerulean blue and violet.
"Enjoying the Breeze", 12x16 on canvas. The inset below is blowup of the seagull.
This is from a photo as well.
Also, totally saturated color.
I painted this scene a year ago for a dear friend, and I think I like this one a little better.
The small insets below are also close ups of the bow and stern so you can see how nice and juicy the paint is.
My conclusion is that I do not enjoy this style of painting as much as representational painting. It's much harder to control juicy paint and I don't even have the right brushes. (I dug into my craft brushes for a couple of rounds.) It's quick though...two paintings in about four hours!
I hope to hit the easel again tomorrow to start on a more serious landscape painting. Ah... looking forward already!
The Front Street Gallery is opening this new show next Friday, January 6th from 6-8 p.m. Please join us and enjoy some great art!
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