I really don’t know what to make of this. I got 3 30″ sq canvases to make Triangles, Squares and Circles. Seemed like a good idea to end the post gestural, geometric shapes paintings. It looked good in my head. Did some sketches and this painting is the result. I don’t like it. The colors are all saturated, intense; it needs more subtly with shades and tones. The background seems to be fighting with the foreground. It seems like when I over plan paintings, they don’t work out i.e. the Infinity painting with the thick symbol painted over the shapes. I was trying to use some of what I did in that painting for this. As I sit here and look at it, the background needs to be a solid color at the very least. Also, the red, blue, purple, and yellow triangles at the bottom need to go. Maybe, that will be enough? I need to let the paint dry before I go painting over it and make more of a mess!
Its been about a month since I’ve picked up a brush or pen. The desire/motivation just wasn’t there. I’ve learned at least this much about myself: that if I try to paint or write or do pretty much anything I’m not motivated to do, it doesn’t work out. With writing, I tried a few times to create the spark by going thru and correcting grammar or spelling or just reading the stories. Didn’t work this time.
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