So here's one that I "finished" last week. It's acrylic on canvas board; obviously, the unabashed figure is unabashedly stolen from the Edward Burne-Jones Perseus & Andromeda that I commented on the other day. I make no claims for the technique I'm slowly trying to "master" (or recover? – I painted better at 17, I fear), but the photo doesn't capture the background, which really does glow after 12 or 13 coats of glazed blue & a very thick varnish.Obviously, this & the various other things I've bunged onto the Flickr page are mostly attempts at coming to terms with the medium, rather than real "art." But I have biggish plans burbling somewhere for a series of big canvases. First, tho, I need to get comfortable with painting real stuff in the background, rather than fun geometries.
Did you see the Flickr set of illustrations from a biology textbook of 1972 that was making the rounds? I mean no disrespect at all in saying this might find companionship there.
ReplyDeleteI like how you've centered the big circle in the blue plane on the midmost mystery. Perhaps this is the sun whose setting illuminates the peach?
It is a rising, not a setting sun.
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