Sunday, March 30, 2008

Something new?


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I brought my 2nd studio piece up to about 95% finished yesterday, and worked on piece #3 for a while. Piece 3 is proving to be a bit perplexing. It shows just enough hope that it will turn the corner, but its developing so slowly. Yesterday I pushed pretty hard on the color, and it started to improve....but it just doesn't "sing" yet...it is still "dis-chord". So I'll try to harmonize all the color chords a bit, hopefully with out losing the color brightness.
I want to try another speed painting done from my sketch pad today also...I have a few more cool thumbnails I'd like to bring to life. The painting in this post is my first beach "quickie" I try to keep painting time down to under 2 hrs. with no retouching the next day. I find the more I fix something the less fresh it looks.
Need to set up studio piece #4 today also, so I can keep production happening. My goal is a minimum of 5 studio works a month.......we'll see. Bye for now.

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Todays task

Its Saturday morning here at Studio Osterberg, and I am working on completing a series of paintings to be used for Gallery submissions. My 1st piece is completed, and I have 2 more in mid process....one of which has "settled" into a nice piece and just needs the work done on it to finish it off. The other is coming to a crisis point which is when you labor mightily on it and it just doesn't have the "glow" or magic, or excitiement. I am contemplating wholesale changes in design and pumping up the color, but I always hate erradicating a weeks worth of work. The only thing that allows me to do it, is that when I look at the piece, there's nothing there.........so destroying nothing seems acceptable.
I am also doing some impulse paintings from sketches in my field pad, using sketches that are interesting enough to catch my fancy, but may not lend themselves to full blown studio pieces. Doing a quick 2 hour 16" x 20" acrylic, or a small oil pastel in my watercolor pad enables me to bring these sketches to life and allows me to be really free with color choices, and looseness of painting style........plus it is really fun and sometimes you get a surprisingly nice piece!! Maybe next time I'll post one of these with my entry.
TIME TO GO TO WORK :.))