This painting is stuck right now. I want to finish it, and move my thoughts on to other paintings, very badly. But I just can’t figure out what to do to make that happen. It is a kind of failure of vision: I look and look but the forms stubbornly refuse to coalesce into resolution. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘“untitled/girl tree”’
Stalled
Posted in Work in Progress, tagged "untitled/girl tree", finishing, plants on January 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dying Peony
Posted in Work in Progress, tagged "untitled/girl tree", plants on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Um. I just realized that the horizon line is nowhere near horizontal. How could I not have noticed that it has a distinct slant to the right?
In other potential problem areas, I’ve been away from the studio for almost a week over Christmas, and I turned the space heaters off and let everything go into [...]
Closer . . .
Posted in Work in Progress, tagged "untitled/girl tree" on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Another Day’s Work
Posted in Work in Progress, tagged "untitled/girl tree", finishing on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By all rights, this painting should be feeling close to finished by now. And yet, it isn’t. The problem is that I can’t seem to put my finger on the problem. I only know it just doesn’t look right to me yet. The foliage is not resolved, somehow. Too piecey, perhaps? I feel a dangerous [...]
Woman Tree Legs Progress
Posted in Work in Progress, tagged "untitled/girl tree" on November 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
God, I really need to come up with a better working title for this painting soon. Or even a real title.
Inching closer. I’m not crazy right now about the way the leaves kind of look like wings. I don’t want it to look like she’s about to leave the ground.
Another Tree-Person
Posted in Work in Progress, tagged "untitled/girl tree", finishing, titles on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As promised, here is the second “tree-person” painting that I’m working on. Dave, incidentally, thinks it’s hilarious that I call them “tree-people” as a place-holder name until I come up with their real title. It makes him think of those Californian hippie/activists who live in trees to prevent loggers from cutting them down. Not really my [...]
