Right around Day 30, I started to get disinterested in this project and ready to abandon it as I have done with the past two 100 Day Projects, but I also was determined to complete 100 small abstract paintings. I’d learned so much the first month about my preferences that I knew I would refine my abstract style if I just kept at it. So, in order to breathe some new life into it, I decided to broaden my parameters and add one more color. This cold manganese blue just sings next to the gold and got me all energized again.
Then, while meeting with another artist who is my accountability partner, the subject of mud came up. Mud, as in over-mixing complementary colors resulting in what painters call mud. It can be a real problem, but it can also work to an advantage by creating neutral places to give the eye a rest in a color saturated painting. Since we both work with lots of color, and little if any neutral areas, we challenged one another to make and use mud deliberately, and you will see some of that in the slideshow below.
That gave me two interesting options for continued exploration. Then came a two week trip to France, which put me way behind, but I am back at it and enjoying the process again. This is going to be quite a cool little journal when it is finished: Only 40 more to go!
Thanks again for following along with me. I appreciate connecting with you.
Love the added blue! <3
"Sings" describes the way these feel. Such lovely movement!