A 'Paint Quilt' is a piece—striped, in
this case—that we were instructed to make from the leftover
paint on our Lesson 7 palettes. No planning
ahead, no squeezing out new paint. We were to use only paint left over
from the monochrome-stripes pieces we were working on.
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| Monostripes #4 (Paint Quilt) --- some soft edges, some straight and delineated edges; visible brush strokes—vertical in the three top-to-bottom stripes, horizontal in the lower left vertical stripe, and multidirectional elsewhere; variety comes from brushstrokes, value variations, and stripe sizes --- I didn't 'finish' this piece in any way, and it reads as unfinished when I look at it; I intend to play with it further, possibly cheating by squeezing out new paint, and for sure using ink or pastels before later sending it as a postcard. |
6 comments:
What a great idea! I like iy on it's simplicity.
Love the dark line with the rough edges. So glad to see you having fun Dotty :) (And learning to boot!)
Thanks, Carol. Yup, the simplicity is lovely, as is the low expectation for outcome. And, in my case, having started a postcard, I'll have fun playing with is just a tiny bit, following no lesson guidelines but just my own whimsy of the moment, before sending it off to my dad.
Yes: the dark line with the rough edges! Even though I tend to want things to be a certain way (god dang it!), it's the things that are rough around the edges and unexpected and out of synch that so often nourish me in the end.
YUP! Yes, neat and tidy corners are what I think I want, but rough and rustic, shabby and worn... now that gets me every time!
You're singing my song, sister!
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