Trying to paint the wind 3

Put a display of landscape paintings up at Emmaus Mossley this week. Was disappointed really .. didn't like them on the dark grey....hadn't minded them up in the Art lounge. By Friday though I had altered them slightly and introduced a couples of old ones. The displays there are a little bit repetative and that's because I keep painting the same sized paintings...try some different sized ones ......

These were the paintings in the Art lounge and also at Emmaus. Must remember to try the work on the dark wall before taking it to Emmaus...the dark grey, which I love as a colour, just seemed to take all the colour out of the paintings. Try again

Tried this morning to get the wind down on canvas...32 inches square...don't normally like canvas at all because my painting process is too heavy...but liked the prettiness of this one...a tapestry of wind currents maybe...is there such a thing as a wind current even ?

Going to have a fun afternoon painting wind in a few different sizes. Done lots of research it's week and it's really interesting to see that artists often paint,' still,' landscapes.....lie the work of Carlos San Milan though.....

No. 1 it seems heavy but it has qualities. It seems about colour....

 Took a time to get here but like it now....need to simplify it....

Lost the wind a bit...need to bring it back to landscape colours....

The wind picks up the colour of the trees

Love this one....

This one May die as it dries....

Try again...

Words to do with winds....

Currents

Countercurrents

Circular patterns of moving

Concentrated areas of winds

Horizontal currents

Verticals currents

Energy

Convectional currents

Hot air rises, cool air sinks bringing about spatial differences in atmospheric pressure

Love the paint !

Maybe managed it....can't wait to have done the nine...

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 ? 

Trying to paint the wind

So have had a massive paint this weekend. Love the paint. Not so in love with the images....he ho. Yesterday though had started off  drifting in the landscape and paint ? Loved it. But by the late afternoon and evening the wind came....strong and firm , not tumbling over the hills but rather , possessing them....loved it....try and paint it....Mmmmmm........loved trying but didn't much like the images... Have to try again...research wind / poetry/ paintings about wind/ can't wait....

So painted over some of the paintings from yesterday...had a massive creative burst....exciting but exhausting....the paintings don't all go together...he ho....

Does the wind have colour ?
The wind doesn't come all the way down to the land does it ? The land beats it doesn't it ? But the wind last night blew downwards.Mmmm

The paintings ...33 inches square....acrylic

The third one is not a new one, but it fits...

This one is a little cold in colour

The wind blew downwards

The three later ones

 Up on the Art lounge wall. They just have tacks on the back of the pictures so I can hook them on 

the baton that's along the wall. I have the same set up at Emmaus Mossley so I can put up the display very quickly. I hate the business of transporting the paintings but will like them up in the showroom. Will see how many I need.

This afternoon I am going to try going into the small 15 cm square landscapes about ,' wind .' Can't wait......

So....looking at , ' wind,' they can be caused by differences in atmospheric pressure or by the heating of land surfaces ( breezes ) ......words....gust....breeze...prevailing wind....trade wind....thermal wind...gale...hurricane...sea breeze...gradient wind....winds can shape landforms.......

Looked at paintings that said,' wind,' to me....Lewis Noble....lots of landscape drawings / marks/ colours...movement....not massive tonal changes.....Mmmm

Wind 1

wind 2

Wind 3

Wind 4

Wind 5

Wind 6

Wind 7

Wind 8

Wind 9

Wind 10

Wind 11

Wind 12

Ok ....so a little bit harder than I thought.the one that best says wind to me today was number 6....where in a way the wind has been given a physical form....but that also could be interpreted as mist....so....do some more.....but ...do some more research first.....

Reflection

Trying to keep out of the My North project to allow some space / marinating time ....just so I can see it a little clearer. Trying to pull together a landscape display for Emmaus where I am the resident artist. I have a space in have showroom to display my work and the work of the Art group I facilitate there. Love it.

What do I want today....tonalist landscape ( love em ) romantic, dramatic, warm, colour....
And yet, I fancy greys....always like a grey landscape....will see what comes out....these are the words that came to me whilst I painted.....sometimes I collect the words....sometimes I let them go....

Just put the paint down
Try different greys
Morning painting...light ?
Immediately I am flirted into Helen Booth / Sonia Stanyard...love their work...
Got an hour ( time binding good for me and my creativity )
Look back at my distilled landscapes
Put the paint down in layers
Let it slightly dry off...go again
Keep what you want in mind
Love thick layers of paint to play with
Scratch
Abstract
Feel it
Don't worry
Feel the wind
Very often I don't go down to the darkest tone
Supposed to be doing a tonalist landscape
Let it dry
Is there any warmth ?
Don't mind the texture just don't want the brush strokes
There's no warmth in it at all
How dark can a green go without  it being black ?
Keep getting a horizon
Don't want a horizon
Try small ones to loosen up
Phew

Feel the wind. Acrylic .33 inches square on board. Mmmmm. Come back to it later on....

At Emmaus Mossley where I am the resident artist, I often come into donations passed up to me to see if I can use them in the Upcycling group or the Art group. This week a whole box of someone's Old Art stuff has come in. Loads of old paper that has gone cream with age, sketch books, notes of someone's Art course. It's lovely to look through and one of our Upcycling volunteers. Jean suggested putting together journal packs for selling in the showroom. 

This was called , ' a triatese on lettering, ' 

Love it ! 

So, had a massive full on paint today. Enjoyed the paint but not so much the images....maybe will have to paint over them tomorrow. The one above I painted over but actually preferred it before I reworked it ...and reworked it etc he ho.... These are 33 inch square paintings in acrylic. I think of them as big sketches......hung them in the Art lounge to , ' live with them.' I remember this morning wanting tonalist landscapes ...or greys ! They go there own way  and today they went green ! There

are loads of lovely greens around though and weather lovely ...

Also blue tacked most of the mills to the Art lounge wall. Defo had rusty landscape fingers today. Need to go small to try again....