Category Archives: Poured paint

As usual, looks can be misleading

Posted on September 3, 2020 by

I’m pretty sure if I showed you the source photo side by side with this one, you’d all be going “gaaahhh, what is this?”  At the moment, it could just be an abstract of a field of yellow flowers. Or … Continue reading →

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Your guess is as good as mine

Posted on June 20, 2020 by

Well, the magenta undercoat hasn’t totally disappeared but it has acquired some new color. I did a little test run by painting some magenta and yellow on a palette sheet and dropping other colors over it. I coded the test … Continue reading →

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Sky Pads 29–Let’s get started

Posted on June 13, 2020 by

It almost looks like magenta rain. It’s got some yellow in it too, but the yellow got largely overwhelmed. No matter. It won’t make much difference in the end. This painting will be a bit of an echo of #27, … Continue reading →

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Rooting around in an artist’s brain

Posted on June 10, 2020 by

I think I started this painting (Sky Pads 28) a little over a month ago. It should have been finished a couple of weeks ago but it insisted on raising issues I had no immediate answer for. So I did … Continue reading →

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A mind of its own

Posted on May 12, 2020 by

If you have read this blog with any kind of frequency I’m sure you’ve seen me state more than once that I never know how a painting is going to turn out while I’m working on it. Well, this one … Continue reading →

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Oh Happy Day!

Posted on May 2, 2020 by

It finally got up to 75°F (24°C) today which is about the coolest temp I dare to pour my paint backgrounds for Sky Pads (this one is #28). The cooler it gets, the less the paint wants to separate out … Continue reading →

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Looking great in light or darkness

Posted on March 29, 2020 by

    Unlike the first two photos of this painting in a previous post (the background and the beginning of the pad formations) this one is a bit brighter. It is really close to what the painting looks like in … Continue reading →

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It got dark all of a sudden

Posted on March 16, 2020 by

If you were in love with the poured paint initial version of this piece– I guess this latest version could be somewhat of a shocker. I’m sure it will be hard to convince you that the three coats of paint … Continue reading →

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Back to work–Sky Pads 27

Posted on March 5, 2020 by

I’ve known for some time now what shape Sky Pads 27 was going to take. Mother Nature got in the way, so in spite of having stretched a canvas and chosen a source photo and a plan for the first … Continue reading →

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Short dive into the pond

Posted on January 28, 2020 by

Footnote: how annoying it is to see the background change (it hasn’t, by the way) depending on time of day and quality of light in the very same space each photo was taken. The middle photo is probably closest to … Continue reading →

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