digital photo, edited
This is a close-up of some computer innards that Matt gave me and that I then dismantled and rearranged. Several photos showed more “stuff” in them, but I preferred the relative simplicity of this one. The original colors were not my favorites, so I played around with hue and saturation in GIMP (my current photo-editing software) to arrive here.
6×8″ acrylic, marker on paper
This began as an interesting scraped painting that I liked at first but it grew away from me. I added some marker lines and it started to become puppy-like, but a really bulged-out version of a very small puppy, probably wearing some sort of costume. Yes, really. So, I added some background color/texture with marker and diluted paint. And here is party puppy. And, no, I don’t understand.
4×4″ acrylic, marker on paper
I scraped a little paint onto this piece of paper. After it dried, I added some marker doodles around the edges. I thought about adding more color within the doodle circles, but wasn’t sure I would like the result. So I stopped. Those are three words you do not always hear in my art studio! 😉
6×6″ acrylic, blockprint on paper
Again, this started with a scraped painting. I added a little blockprint of the smaller circles. It started to resemble, in a very abstract way, a christmas tree (I think it was decorated by little people). I added a little bit of paint straight out of the paint tube over the “tree” area. Then I heavily diluted some blue-violet and blue for the background washes.
I hope all of you have enjoyed the holidays. One more week of 2015 dailies!
7.5×10″ acrylic, blockprint on silk
I scraped the paint onto the silk, then went over that with a blockprint of the circles in white. It reminds me of snow and the holidays. It sounds like a white christmas, only recently out of the question, may be possible now. Maybe. In the meantime, there’s this. Happy Christmas Eve!
11×11″ acrylic on silk
Another scraped acrylic on silk. They’re slightly more beautiful when the paint is still wet on the silk. Once I have dabbed the paint here and there, with an idea of what I want to happen, it’s most exciting to pull down the paint with the scraping tool and reveal what really happens. It’s not always a wonderful surprise, but in this case I was happy.
11×7″ acrylic, collage on matboard
I started this one by scraping acrylic on matboard. I had the waxpaper/crayon hearts out from a previous daily (the hearts are left over from a Valentine’s Day project a few years ago with my niece). I just liked the colors together, frankly, so I collaged them onto the painting. I see some figures in the paint and the hearts make it a little (too) sweet, but I like it anyway.
9×7″ acrylic on silk
One of a series of scraped paintings on silk. The dark blue makes me think of the early, early mornings in winter. And with the shortest day soon behind us, light will begin to return.
4×4″ acrylic on paper
This one just cracks me up. Initially, I began arranging dried blobs of acrylic (from the palette paper) to collage on the paper in a non-objective way—just arranging forms and colors randomly. But then, in the middle of that, appeared unmistakably a red alien/grinch sort of character on a blue saucer sledding downhill (on purple snow, of course). So, why not go with that, right? I added some thick white “snow” on top of the purple/blue blobs, then painted the lighter blue color in the background. Just another example of the weird things that happen in the creative process.
8.5×5.5″ acrylic, silk on paper
This began with a scrape of acrylic (left over on the scraping tool from another painting). I added some strands of silk from a scrap of fabric, although you may have to look closely at the full image view to see them (there are five green strands coming up from the bottom, and one orange one farther up in a spiral shape). I have a feeling I could do more with this and like it more…but it’s a daily jane for now.