Tired of being good.

The painting on the right is what I painted yesterday. The first one is how the painting looks today. I added glaze to the large red shape because I enjoy the contrast of shiny versus matte. The large red shape lets light in giving it a feeling of depth in contrast to the areas that absorb some light.

Unfortunately, my brain has assigned an image to the shape that I am not enjoying so I'm going to have to make some changes but I do like the negative shape it creates so I'm not sure how I'm going to resolve my dilemma.

I also had fun creating the color for the neutral background. I enjoy my frankenstein color creations. Yellow is not a color I choose to wear or live in but it seems to be my color of choice for painting.

I spend the whole day in the studio preparing to hang my art in a local restaurant. There is something to be said for a deadline to make one buckle down and work. I did some larger and some smaller drawings. I felt more intimidated by the larger space and so filled it with a lot of busy marks that I had to later incorporate into smoother, larger shapes. Perhaps because I was tired by the time I turned to the smaller paintings, I was more relaxed. I made larger, more swoopey (o.k., not a real word) shapes to which I later added some random marks. I think I'm going to call the bottom drawing 'Light and Dark duke it out.' I really love how the purply blue jousts with the flakey white. Now, it's time for a good meal and hopeful a nice evening walk.