Finding my voice …
 |
| starting to collage on top of paint layers |
Showing posts with label painting a feeling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label painting a feeling. Show all posts
Thursday, March 8, 2018
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Liminal Hints
The painting I started five days ago has presented an engaging conundrum: I want to capture a feeling. But, how?
It's one thing to paint intuitively, to just make marks and brushstrokes, knowing that whatever I'm feeling is most likely playing out in some way on my canvas. That's hard enough, but it's something I've grown into gradually.
It's another thing, and a harder thing by far at the moment, to have some sense—though in no way a clear sense—of a particular feeling I want to convey, and to then try to manifest visually that feeling … for which I have no visual reference.
The word liminal comes to mind: of, relating to, or situated at a sensory threshold : barely perceptible or capable of eliciting a response. I'd say that about sums up the vague stuff I've been trying to find words for here!
In any case, my brain has been working hard while I sleep, offering up what I think of as liminal hints as to ways to proceed.
So today I cut a piece from a book jacket I'd saved, and used it as a support for collaging. I think somehow this sheet of collage may move me forward.
Here's what I've accumulated in the past few days:
It's one thing to paint intuitively, to just make marks and brushstrokes, knowing that whatever I'm feeling is most likely playing out in some way on my canvas. That's hard enough, but it's something I've grown into gradually.
It's another thing, and a harder thing by far at the moment, to have some sense—though in no way a clear sense—of a particular feeling I want to convey, and to then try to manifest visually that feeling … for which I have no visual reference.
The word liminal comes to mind: of, relating to, or situated at a sensory threshold : barely perceptible or capable of eliciting a response. I'd say that about sums up the vague stuff I've been trying to find words for here!
In any case, my brain has been working hard while I sleep, offering up what I think of as liminal hints as to ways to proceed.
So today I cut a piece from a book jacket I'd saved, and used it as a support for collaging. I think somehow this sheet of collage may move me forward.
Here's what I've accumulated in the past few days:
 |
| acrylic and ink covering an old painting on 6x6" canvas board |
 |
| acrylic skin |
 |
| book jacket with first pieces of collage |
 |
| collaged book jacket |