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Untitled blog post from "macro & micro"

  • Writer: Jonathan Moss
    Jonathan Moss
  • Aug 19, 2009
  • 1 min read

I managed to drag myself away from framing and video-editing to start a new series of paintings. I locked the studio door to avoid any distractions from little Emilie and Louis and started to 'drip' over textures I made earlier in the year. The initial inspiration for the images was the HD video I completed last month (post 31).

Drips of cadmium yellow, titanium white, burnt sienna and prussian blue took quite some time to control and didn't have that elusive something that the painting needed; I'm not sure if it was the exasperation or inhalation of turps, but I found the largest brush I could (15cm) and started to drag it down the canvas, low-and-behold that elusive something appeared . . . So now I have a prototype and look forward to starting the others in the series when I've finished the framing and editing (which at the moment seems like no time soon).

 
 
 

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