I am trying to get back into the swing of painting again, I kind of lost my rhythms over the winter and this past academic year. I’m starting back up on paper using acrylics, topping off with a polyacrylic finish.
To get inspired I’ve been playing with overlaying color fields in different geometric shapes kind of a Mondrian and Hoffman mash of influence. I tried to document my process of playing around and getting my feet wet again.
I start by adding a base layer that is just speaking to me, a color that is reaching out and thus will always be projecting through the layers to come.
At this point I start adding the layers in largely a parallel shape color field, turning the paper in a counter clockwise fashion. This is the part that I enjoy and that I find meditative, trying to create those connecting patterns without the use of any tapes or measures, just eye balling it. Once the shape is established that becomes the new field that you get to work within the painting. It causes you to hyper-focus.
It isn’t an exhausting focus because each shape on a 22 x 28 paper only take so much focus. There’s a nice break as you think through the next color choice. And, the fun part is the closer to the fillings of the whole paper becomes like a puzzle on how to put the final color field in to close the painting. It almost becomes like a game of Tetris.
Once one painting is completed and then try to go through the same process not necessarily duplication and use corresponding colors to form a set of three, as seen in the featured image of all three works.
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