I finished the piece! only took a few extra days but I think it looks a lot better. It's still very deep, fresh and airy, but it has a bit more of a space than it did before. That's pretty confusing to try to figure out but I guess its kind of like this. I thought, with just the poured paint that it looked too accidental, too unfocused. Sometimes that's good, and sometimes that just looks un-cared for, like a mistake or an afterthought. I thought, without some of the added pastel, that the poured colors looked simply like that: poured color. What I wanted it to be was an abstract form, made from poured color that created a dynamic, interesting and expressive composition.
If I draw ten random dots on a piece of paper and leave it at that, the ten dots, most likely will look unconnected and stationary. However, if I add even a few lines connecting a few of them to a certain point, all the dots, whether actually connected or not, will look to be expanding. It creates depth, a space, a composition. That creates energy. That is what was missing.
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| Check that texture out! Oh nature...you are pretty cool |
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