I have been working on some paintings using acrylic. Before I begin, I usually tone the surface and/ or use a palette knife to smear on some textured gel medium. Once the surface is dry, I begin to put color on top of it. I am thinking about color, light, texture and paint. I am thinking about rock formations, the ocean, currents, the wind and sky. AND......I am trying NOT to think too much, but to just respond to what is already on the surface. One mark goes down, which inspires the next, and so on. While these paintings might not be recognizable as landscape, they are distillations many years of observation. They celebrate paint for its own sake and more directly express emotion purely by use of color.
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Dear Terry:
I feel your distillations and I can look into your soul. I think that many others who know the sea, as we do, will feel the same. It is very moving; please keep on this track. I do not know whether you were aware of how of Chinese monks and literati painted. They went into the mountains and meditated on the vistas and elements of nature that they were immersed. They did not paint in the fresh air. They committed to memory and they internalized the very essence and spirit of what moved them. They were transformed and then they in turn went home to develop the materials, techniques and styles to release what was welling up inside. That may be what you are doing.
Joel
Dear Terry:
I feel your distillations and I can look into your soul. I think that many others who know the sea, as we do, will feel the same. It is very moving; please keep on this track. I do not know whether you were aware of how of Chinese monks and literati painted. They went into the mountains and meditated on the vistas and elements of nature that they were immersed. They did not paint in the fresh air. They committed to memory and they internalized the very essence and spirit of what moved them. They were transformed and then they in turn went home to develop the materials, techniques and styles to release what was welling up inside. That may be what you are doing.
Joel
Dear Terry:
I feel your distillations and I can look into your soul. I think that many others who know the sea, as we do, will feel the same. It is very moving; please keep on this track. I do not know whether you were aware of how of Chinese monks and literati painted. They went into the mountains and meditated on the vistas and elements of nature that they were immersed. They did not paint in the fresh air. They committed to memory and they internalized the very essence and spirit of what moved them. They were transformed and then they in turn went home to develop the materials, techniques and styles to release what was welling up inside. That may be what you are doing.
Joel
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