Detail of a work-in-progress.
I am trying to paint my way out of a slump.
Tag: oil painting
Another unfinished figure study, ca. 2008. Oil on hardboard panel.
Another unfinished figure study, ca. 2008. Oil on panel (hardboard).
Moue (unfinished), circa 2008. Oil on something, probably cotton.
An unfinished figure study that never saw the light of day. I have no idea where this is now. Painted over, probably.
I’m trying to get back into figure-based stuff. Looking back at older work, I now realize two unnerving things: 1) I have a terrible track record when it comes to finishing things and 2) I used to be better at drawing than I am now.
Flood 3.
Oil on panel, 12×12".
Flood 5
Oil on panel, 12×12".
I don’t think I can articulate what these are about. They’ll just have to speak for themselves.
Flood 4
Oil on panel, 12×12".
Flood 2.
Oil on panel (12×12").
Sometimes can’t tell if you’re waving or drowning.
Flood 1.
Oil on panel (12×12" primed MDF).
So, I stayed up too late one night trying to fix this painting and ended up slathering most of it in a thin layer of Prussian blue. The result struck me with the force of an epiphany and I even wrote a note to myself that read “WHEN IN DOUBT BLUE” and pinned it up in the studio with a flourish. Next day I came back in and saw this. Hahaha what the hell have I been doing?
So I took the only logical course of action. I abandoned the painting and moved house.