When I woke up yesterday, I didn't feel my usual drive to paint.
But then the alternative would have been to clean house and there
was no drive to do that! I needed a shot in the arm and had read about
painting on mylar so thought I'd give it a try. The surface isn't that
different from gesso but for some reason, it gave me permission to
focus more on the paint than the subject—experiment rather than produce.
When I look at this, it feels like I didn't paint it. Which might be a good
thing to clear out old preconceptions about how my paintings "should" look.
Thinking I'll use PVA glue to mount this to a gessoed panel . . . if anyone
has experience mounting mylar, please let me know what works best.
3 comments:
This is lovely. I've never painted on mylar. Maybe I should give it a try.
This is ethereal, something about the delicate grays you have found with your colors and the juicy paint. I think you are definitely on to something
This is lovely. My problem lately is that I'd rather clean than paint! I would just do anything rather than paint. I finally managed to trick myself into painting today by "cleaning up" my workspace. I tweaked some old paintings, but I now am excited about an idea for a new painting.
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