BEFORE AND AFTER "Many Worlds" 30"x40"
Stage One
The concept was fine, but just not interesting enough.
Final Stage
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I added more texture and colour variation in the second stage. I actually glued down some copper metalic "paper" over most of the black cirlces but didnt like it so I painted over them with a couple of layers of acrylic and still didnt like them. Soooooooo, I ripped them all off in frustration. When I did that some of the metalic remained on the canvas in interesting patterns (the darker copper circles) and ALSO the metalic paper itself that I peeled off had a new and unique design on the reverse side of it (the lighter silvery circles). I glued them back down in different spots. Gotta luv those happy accidents. I was displeased enough with the painting in stage one to have the blind courage to risk it and push on. A valuable art mantra of mine, "If I don't love it, it's not done".
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Comment by Wendy Johnson on April 12, 2010 at 9:41am -
Thanks, good idea Nic, I'll give it a go.
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Comment by Nicole Umina on April 12, 2010 at 8:55am -
Wendy this is fantastic - the growth from the first one that now seems very flat - is amazing. You have managed to create so many layers of depth. My only issue is a focal - it seems to want or need one for me - I dunno if thats just cuz I'm more figurative then abstract. Id cut out a transparent circle the same size as your larger orange ones and maybe give it a white outline or something and move it around on those larger orange circles to see if it makes one an interesting but unobtrusive focus - just to see if it works with something that pops out. Just one of them a lil different than the others.
Other than that I truly am impressed in the progression - way to go gurl!
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Comment by Greef on April 11, 2010 at 7:47pm -
I forgot to add 'Who cares what i think anyway'...you love it, that is all that matters!
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Comment by Greef on April 11, 2010 at 7:35pm
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It's funny the questions we ask ourselves or the mantra's we have. Yours is "If i don't love it, it's not done", which is an interesting one. The main question i ask myself once i have completed an artwork, "Is it forgettable?"...to which i answer yes to 98%!
I think this work has definitely evolved and improved and it has challenged you in many ways which is good. Definitely a 'teacher' artwork with many lessons still to come i think! I'm going to be the party pooper here and say i'm still searching for more. It's almost got that Klimt thing happening, like one of his elaborate garments. There is lots of really nice things happening Wendy
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Comment by Nicole Fisher on April 11, 2010 at 2:47pm -
Fantastic! <3333 it!
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Comment by Danielle Evans on April 11, 2010 at 10:21am -
Bravo! Love it! Love it! Love it!!
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Comment by Joan Anne on April 11, 2010 at 7:46am -
I love the way you do you rart!. Many of my paintings have what I call an under life. Bits of which show through, sometimes only when you catch them in a certain angle. Makes much more interesting work.
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Comment by Jan Jackson on April 11, 2010 at 6:54am -
really like your second version, it has a lot of depth which kinda takes me beyond. . . . love the whole color combinations tooo, very calm. There is also a lot of movement, which i always love in a painting
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