When you pour a background for a painting, you may not know what you're going to do with it - what it will eventually become. I don't often "see" what's there when I see an abstracted bunch of colors and shapes like some people do. This one isn't talking to me. I just used the 3 primaries, yellow, blue, red; without any preconceived notion of what I might draw over it.
What do you see?
I flipped it to see if it made more sense to me like this. I think it seems more like a landscape now, but I still don't "see" anything.
It's an odd trick of the eyes and the camera that the same Scarlet Lake color looks cool against the blue and warm against the green.
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I am with you Rhonda - some people can see great shapes from pouring. I generally do not. If I pour I draw shapes and then paint negatively. Sometimes it works and sometimes it does not (LOL)! Maybe I just lack imagination. Love the colors you have poured. Take care and God Bless.
Hi Rhonda,
This piece is looking good so far, I like the 'energy' of the colors.
Fascinating technique. I'd hesitate to say what I see, it's your piece, maybe living with it for a bit a world may emerge that moves you. Give it time.
Hello Rhonda:) The pouring you did looks beautiful already!
In the first one I saw a blue sky with some grassland and a lot of trees on both sides.
In the second one I saw a pond with a loth of trees hanging over. Have much fun with it:)
I can actually see some sort of bird in the first flapping its wings - can't usually see things though!
I see some small unknown figures sitting and cooperating in the flopped version. It is funny how my head grinds looking for the images...
I wonder how you manage this painting.
Hmmm, it a bit like fireworks. Does that evoke any images for you?
I see trees and sky in the first one and actually prefer that version a little more but they are both FABULOUS! Awesome technique!
I see a Caribbean beachscene with palm trees and warm tones coming through the trees on the right side from a setting sun. The sky is a wonderful shade of blue.
Maybe I got carried away?
It is like finding shapes in the clouds! I see a fruit loop bird in the top piece! Fun so fire!
I'm enjoying reading all the things you all are seeing in this pour :) Wish I was so imaginative!!
I see water and waves. I know, boring. Maybe don't try to see anything in it. Select a still live (pears?) and just go for it. Can't wait to see what happens.
Congratulations on your blog award. I liked the 5 things you said. Now that I know you can sing the blues I may have to schedule a trip to visit.
Beautiful colors!! I think I may see something in the flipped version but I'd have to hang it on the wall and live with it a bit. Fun!
Thanks, Carol and Pam :) Unfortunately, that piece is in the "round file" after trying a portrait on top - what was I thinking?? ha ha
Rhonda, less intensity in the pour and high values could give you a beautiful beginning to a portrait or still life as Carol said.
Thanks, Linda. It was too intense in color, I think - for a pour, I should have left it really pale. Oh,well, it's in the round file now! ha ha Some you win, some you lose.
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