There's something very satisfying to me to write something, and then to wipe it out. I think the reason for that is it's very hard to come up with something that is useable in a painting, writing wise, and you're never quite sure it will go over very well.
So if a person such as ME goes over it (with paint) it feels good, now NOBODY is gonna know what you wrote.
I'm trying to do this painting right now where the writing is partly obscured and partly legible. There's one particular part that when I wrote it, I didn't think it was too good so that particular part is gonna be VERY hard to read, and I feel good about that.
Lately I've been doing a lot of the same kind of paintings, and as much as it's good to develop a signature style (people definitely can tell it's one of my painting from across the street) it also isn't all that good in that it can get repetitive, and you can feel frustratingly tired with the whole thang.
I'm painting crowds and as I do the next one I think about all the things that I have already done and hope that each painting isn't just like the last one. Especially in the poses of the people involved.
Well, one I'm doing now, it's gigantic, 8feet high and I'm doing another one, a little one for the Henry Bash, which I can safely say are different than the ones I have done previously. Maybe that's why I'm doing them so big and so little, to be different.
But I didn't consciously decide that, it just happened.
The big one is awesome (for me) cuz I really like the figures almost being life size...they're probably about 3/4 size and it's fun for me to paint them. I feel I can do more with their faces and bodies than I have done before.
The little one has been a bit of a revelation cuz I'm able to get a crowd scene in a very small area and still have the people be as individual as I want them to be. The little one doesn't have writing but as I write this, I'm thinking maybe I should add writing to it, sorta finish it off.
Well, anyhoo, maybe based on the observations here, I should move on to something else, take a different pathway than the one I'm been on for about the last six months. I think it might be a good thing.
