Way Out (re-worked)
Oil and acrylic on canvas board 16" x 16"
I laboured for hours on this painting, kept changing my mind, putting figures in, wiping them out, starting again. There is learning to be had from the process. In this case it was that when I create figures out of my head a little bit of them remain figments of my imagination and it bothers me that they don't quite ring true. In the end I took an old black and white snapshot of myself and put "me" in this different environment. I know it looks a bit like an underpainting but I instinctively knew it didn't need any more work doing on it than this.
Ok - I said all that on 17th Jan, the day the painting was posted. Today, 22nd Jan, my so called "instinct" told me to do some more work on it. I mean, what is this instinct - a joker or something?
posted by Sheila Vaughan at 12:40 PM
14 Comments:
your experiments are coming together in powerful images, Sheila. although your figures stand with silently their body language speaks volumes.... thank you for having the courage to portray your inner most....
Thank you Rahina. I'm glad you see something in it. I do, but then it is quite personal to me. I just can't get over how difficult this whole painting business is..
Congratulations for listening to your instinct. It was as right as always.
Sam, that's sweet of you to say that. It's so difficult to shrug off the "audience" isn't it.
Love, love, love it
Thanks Sally - I really like your conservatory pics. I love greenhouses.
An awesome painting, Sheila, it looks as though it just happened - i.e. not sweated over in the least!!!
Hi Marcia, the sweat is underneath, LOL. I am learning how flexible oil paint can be.
I love that assurance, the knowledge you have of exactly what's right. What a glorious painting. The mood is potent and poignant.
XO Barbara
Barbara, it often doesn't feel like assurance - it sometimes feels more like obstinence, LOL.
This group of new studies in grey carries a deeply emotional charge which is somehow all the more effective for the almost minimalist means. You are really paring down to essences here.
Don, thanks for the perceptive thoughts. I am trying to pare down to essentials so I'm glad you are seeing some of that in the work. I've had family visiting for a week so had to put the painting on hold. Hope to get back to it very soon.
LOL. Yes! But this is so beautifully done. You keep getting better and better, saying more with less.
Hi Diane, nice to share an 'across the pond' laugh. I might well do some more work on it and b***** the instinct, LOL.
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