Monday 26 September 2016

Trying to paint the wind ( 2 )

How to paint the wind ? Mmmm....what set me off on the wind was Saturday evening....wind, strong enough to possess the hills....strong enough to be heard from inside....it was a warm day and the wind felt unthreatening...pleasant in the woods.....not windy enough to rock the trees but strong enough to move some branches, that bent in response to the wind....

What do I want ?  Movement...feelings.... Landscape ( can I ever have wind without landscape ? )...not much colour.....Mmmmm, not a lot to ask...what colour is wind ? White, grey or clear....I like the idea that the wind carries colour from the landscape it passes through......

Don't critique these pieces...or else the muse will disappear...

Put down darks ...colours of the landscape
Then covered it over with greys and whites and scraped the paint over. Last step was to splatter greens...

Below was the second attempt ....loved the floating, ' bits , ' across what could be the sky...

Third attempt....spent quite a lot of time placing , ' leaves, ' with a kind of tapping of the paint brush...


Below were the 9 small, 15 cm pieces. It defo was easier to try and capture the wind on a larger piece....

Me
Messy but ok.



Tones are similar

Splattered and then scraped

Abstracted but warm

Abstracted and scraped

Threw everything at this one

Calm, warm wind

Swirled the paint, printed off, splattered

Messy but windy

I liked quite a lot of the marks on the pieces today....will the muse still very around tomorrow ? 

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