I am OUT of white paint. I scraped the tube for this painting and I had to seriously conserve. It worked out to not use an underpainting and reserve the bare white canvas for the focal point highlight on the spoon.
Conserving paint put me in a fun state of mind where I worked carefully to put down intentional brushstrokes of JUST as much paint as was needed to cover the surface. I also used a lot of medium in this one because I needed to stretch the paint. It was a lot of fun.
My inspiration for this painting came from this one I have up in my kitchen from a few weeks ago. Up close, it’s fairly abstract, but from far away, the spoon and grapefruit slices are crystal clear. I love it. There are distinct shapes of color that fit into each other just right to provide an illusion of light and depth from afar, and action up close. Yes please. More of this.
This painting has the same effect. I view it from across the room and I see a very smooth spoon. Up close it’s clear that there are only a few distinct shapes of varying hue and value that work their magic.
I am getting MUCH faster at putting down value and form. It’s working. I feel a drive in me to WORK BIGGER!
Good thing I will be starting some mural work again soon and that will be my daily painting work when it’s what consumes the bulk of my day. I plan to post progress 🙂
