Thursday, March 3, 2016

Aftermath or...Rorschash?

So...when I paint, I get messy.  And I use a lot of paint... lots of paint.  And, of course, I leave squishes of paint on my palette for use the next time.  Sometimes, the squishes are still good.  Sometimes....well, not so good. It just seems a shame to scrape off all this excess paint and throw it away, so I have started a new series: "Aftermath".  These are all of my colors - scraped off my palette and scraped onto a canvas.  Not only are they fun abstracts but they give a purpose to all that leftover paint.  And you can see a few glimpses into my color palette along the way.  Mind you, it's skewed by the fact that some colors, like white, dry more quickly than other colors.  So, the squishes of white on my palette don't last long and they get transferred to the Aftermath canvas more often than, say, alizarin crimson.  It ends up looking like I use more white than is actually the case.  But you get the point.

You can see them in person at the upcoming bunkhouse show

And, here is the aftermath: