22. Yellow Burst - Six Colour Remix
30cm x 30cm
Interactive Acrylic on deep edged canvas
2012
SOLD
Exhibited at Florists in Herford during duration of the Hertford Open 2012
Exhibited at Eagle Gallery “Towards abstraction” exhibition (5th August – 5th September 2013)
Exhibited at the Eagle Gallery “The Garden and Beyond” Andrew Naish one man show 12th – 19th October 2013 Exhibited at Eagle members show June 23rd – July 17th 2014
This one was a request really but a good idea I thought worthy of pursuing. My wife is often saying how much she likes the ‘under-painting’ stage of my work, where I map everything out in big bold coloured areas. So the idea was to re do painting 18 “yellow burst”, but simplify the detail and number of colours used.
So I used exactly the same image and pre mixed 6 very specific colours that I would apply in a neat way using as many ‘coats’ as required to create a graphic image. I choose two quite tonally similar greys for the shadows, two greens for behind the flowers, a bright yellow (Arylamide yellow deep) and Brown for the centre of the flowers.
For the first few passes, I used the reference material, but eventually jettisoned this to let the shapes on the canvas themselves dictate where to apply the paint. One starts to define shapes with outlines, but I tried not to do too much “drawing”.
My wife likes the finished result, my mother not so keen, but I think its interesting and well worth doing. I think it conveys the heat of the day depicted, and some of the paint areas being matt while others appearing semi-gloss was an interesting unintended effect.
Interactive Acrylic on deep edged canvas
2012
SOLD
Exhibited at Florists in Herford during duration of the Hertford Open 2012
Exhibited at Eagle Gallery “Towards abstraction” exhibition (5th August – 5th September 2013)
Exhibited at the Eagle Gallery “The Garden and Beyond” Andrew Naish one man show 12th – 19th October 2013 Exhibited at Eagle members show June 23rd – July 17th 2014
This one was a request really but a good idea I thought worthy of pursuing. My wife is often saying how much she likes the ‘under-painting’ stage of my work, where I map everything out in big bold coloured areas. So the idea was to re do painting 18 “yellow burst”, but simplify the detail and number of colours used.
So I used exactly the same image and pre mixed 6 very specific colours that I would apply in a neat way using as many ‘coats’ as required to create a graphic image. I choose two quite tonally similar greys for the shadows, two greens for behind the flowers, a bright yellow (Arylamide yellow deep) and Brown for the centre of the flowers.
For the first few passes, I used the reference material, but eventually jettisoned this to let the shapes on the canvas themselves dictate where to apply the paint. One starts to define shapes with outlines, but I tried not to do too much “drawing”.
My wife likes the finished result, my mother not so keen, but I think its interesting and well worth doing. I think it conveys the heat of the day depicted, and some of the paint areas being matt while others appearing semi-gloss was an interesting unintended effect.