Landstills 52 cm square

I wanted to use one of the 15 cm sq. pieces as a starting point for a larger, 52 cm square piece. This is the 15 cm piece I chose ...

 I like....the colours...the warmth...most of the marks....will it transfer to a bigger piece...

This was the first one, painted over an old 52 cm sq. I like...the feeling of space...the colours and warmth....maybe I need a little more lighter tone...will love with it for a few days...

This was the second...mmmm....I like...the grey base ( the painting I painted over was predominantly grey ) it seems to harmonise with any colour put on top of it...the colours...the warmth...it seems a simple landscape so not sure about it but keep going, I have become interested in the relationship between the yellows and the pinks...Mmm , research....the painting readily feels like an evening piece...maybe a series on evening pieces....I like that title looks different when I took an image of it and looked at it on screen...it brought the piece into focus...live with it a few days and research evening paintings ( back to nocturnes maybe ? )

Moving out of the winds....don't know where

Painting is hard in sad times ( Grenfell disaster ) It seems so pointless. The paintings themselves have reflected my mood and have been difficult to paint. My landscape is not helping and the beautiful weather seems so wrong. These two are acrylic on board 52 x 35 cm.

The two below need frames on the back. They have been sold but have just been painted on hardboard and 5 mm Mdf. Both are 52 cm sq, acrylic on board. I am going through a phase of liking some of these older paintings. Need to look through them all.

A morning breath

Winds...winds...winds....
Tried to consider a larger piece , trying to catch the wind. Had been keeping a diary of the weather but of course, Sod's law, the wind was nowhere ! So that didn't work. I did fins it interesting to consider what colour the wind was on any given day....that was interesting to think about the wind in terms of colour....I didn't seem to have a problem recognising the colour of the wind....I think also it would become easier the more you did it....maybe I should look at the wind also in terms of adjectives that wouldn't neccessarily be used for wind....randomly select some from thed in tigon art to see how that plays out....

Definition of wind in the dictionary....' The per ceptable natural movement of the air,' nice...

So this morning reviewed the research and the paintings done already. Looked at the poems I researched ( I usually read the poems and then mark them overall out of 10... As I read them, I select out the lines of poetry that resonate and just note them down ) ...the line that has stayed with me was from a poem by Christina Rossetti, ' Who has seen the wind Neither you nor I ,'

I tried the bigger piece, mixed up some greeny grey colour ( white, ochre, black ...always a massive favorite ) whats that colour called ? But it seems to be a mainstay of my palette....and mixed some cream, just ochre and white, very bright....just going to paint and collect the words..... The R 's are a note to myself to research further when I have finished painting

Blue grey
Green grey
Still winds ...R
Pale, almost non existing paintings...R
Poetry..I know that a whole poem doesn't ever do it for me....just lines of a poem
Paint one painting at a time and collect the words
Need a green grey ( black, white, ochre ) try different ratios of the individual colours ...R
I seem to want the wind to be horizontal
Need a cream
a morning wind
Don't want the word wind in the title
Pale, pale ,pale
Scratches
Need darkness
Can you have a, ' still wind,'
Mistake to look at one corner ( for me it never works if I look at one area of a painting, must always look at the whole,'
It's so hard for me to leave brush marks
Laid the wind over the landscape
Like a skyline
Can you have too much blending ?
Don't like the marks, keep wanting to blend them out
This mornings painting is definitely a reaction to darker tonalist feel of the current display
So subtle
Feel like if I carried on putting down the paint , I would return the board to a blank canvas kind of a feel. Mmmm

This is the present display of 52 cm sq. Paintings

This is the days work, ' Morning breath, ' 33 inches suare. Tried photos in different places.

How can I paint the wind ?

So, finished the display of , ' trying to paint the wind, ' eight x 52 cm sq . Enjoyed the excersise and don't mind some of the paintings. Feel sure I will come back to the , ' wind paintings, ' but for the moment the muse has dried up ! Critique the ones I have done now and think about what next ( should I do a big wind one ) or actually like the idea that I can do kind of Aspects of the landscape....try it !

No 1. ( I have displayed them in the order that they were created ) ' trying to catch the wind, ' critique....seems kind of like mist , not neccessarily wind.

' Trying to ride the wind, ' Used applicators to kind of ice the paint on...hard to leave the marks on , I seem to want to blend. The lines help the feeling of movement in the piece.

' Textures in the wind, ' like the paint lines and like the scratch marks.

' Gusts, ' lots of sweeping marks of the brushes indicate movement. 

' in a way this was a still wind, '....again the brush strokes indicate the wind / breeze. There's less of a focus in this one because of the lack of the strong lines. That seems to indicate distance or space.

' Still feel the wind, '...I definately could feel movement / wind in this one. I think it is just because of the lines ....there seems to be nothing else in the painting that indicated wind. It feels though a little like an illustration in a children's book.

' The wind , a friend today, ' with keep reworking this one . It became out of focus so became a feeling of wind. It is pared down but is that a good thing or a bad ? ...leave to settle for a few days.

' Where is the wind , ' I was trying to paint the fact that only the outside leaves on the  large, mature trees. I am sure that wasn't conveyed in the painting.....so maybe need to try again !

Working title for the group, ' How can I paint the wind, ' ( just making a sign for them ) critiquing the group......they do seem about the wind, or at least , movement.....I like the strength of them....the tones ( some could be what I would class as tonalist paintings ) the warm sienna colour I used in quite a few of them.....always like a grid of this sized paintings.....Mmm....enjoyed creating the display but want to address the, ' landstills, ' next.