Moving into greys.......

The interest in horizons didn't continue from last week. That's how it goes ! I think I am onto a new muse but it fizzles out if it's not strong enough. So, I painted with thoughts of moving out of tonalist paintings and into horizons and what came out was a return to an interest in greys. Greys are a recurring theme, particularly in winter....the light does affect the colours that I use instinctively and I am ok with that. If not, I have alight box......that works and makes the colours I use more colourful.

I used a painting from last week that I hadn't really liked. Not liking them much at all at the moment....not really worried about that, I go though phases and I know that if I don't like it initially it might well be one that I love when I have left it propped up in the studio for a couple of weeks. We will see.

I am thinking about continuing the series of poem lines....so with notebook at the side of the painting, I caught the words....
It's the push and pull of the landscape/ paint
The landscape and the paint become one
An orange burst of foliage
It seems about texture
Where is winter ?
Sunny, georgeous
Where to go
Sometimes I am only interested in the top line
I don't think of light, only paint
It becomes light after time
Hesitance, hesitancy, hesitancy, burst of confidence, hesitancy, hesitancy, but post if confidence recurring

It becomes light after time.....33 inches square, acrylic on board

Critiquing the piece...

First I look at the completed painting and ask myself what words come to mind when I look at the piece......grey, light, my landscape, calm, still.......unfinished ( interesting )

Will return to the paint later this afternoon, .......life gets in the way of the paint sometimes.........

This is this afternoons effort. Charcoal and white chalk on canvas.....It took me a while to get into it....the charcoal is very different to the paint....obviously....but I added water to make a wash and then returned to the wet work with the dark, compressed charcoal. I sprayed the work with water and wiped out the , ' light.' Not sure how to fix it on canvas yet.....looked at artist Michael Wann...georgeous stuff, Sue Bryan also georgeous. Mmmm. I think I could get there if I did a series of them but am I motivated to do that ? Try on paper tomorrow.....