My canvases arrived and I am three paintings in to the flower studies planned. Unfortunately I broke one of the canvases, the stretcher bars. I am going to try to repair it, but I set it aside for now.
The great thing I love most about studies is that they seem to wander where they want to. I am not restricted to advancing them into refinement. I don’t have to do anything other than explore. Fast and loose is they way of studies.
One of the purposes of this particular group is exploration of how positive and negative spaces work out in a square format. The other is a play, between vibrancy of the flowers next to neutrality of the negative space, and neutrality of the flowers, next to vibrancy of the negative space. It is also a lot of fun playing around with shapes, building some up and flattening out others, simplifying.
Life is swell for country painters…..
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