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April 14, 2010 | Posted By: Annie | No Comments
Filed Under Annie, Artist Love, Our Artwork 

I sat back and pondered today, in retrospect I think it might have been an obsession, my search for a color palette I could confidently wield. The three giant binders filled with magazine clippings, the screen captures and files saved in folders, the dates I spent with Egon Schiele, Leonard and Mauricio, counting the colors in the stripey gowns (or lack there of ), the feathers in the headresses. Its true I never felt very comfortable with my color choices, they didn’t fit, I think it was the paint. I never had that problem with oil. No, it was me, I just didn’t know what I was doing. Now I just choose what I really want to see hanging on my wall.

I like these. I like the colors. They are so small and frivolous really, the only thing I can manage to slip into my short free times (toddler naps). But, I think they are a good predictor of getting somewhere worth going.  And I’m loosing up! Another good thing, I also never had that problem with oil. But I thinned the latex paint and now the visible strokes are flowing and not sticky looking. I like how they seem more impulsive. And I like Sterling Hundley, how he makes white shine on the sandy undertones (”pretty”, no 1 in case your interested, I can’t link directly to my example). Thank you reader, for reading this if you did, I know its very self-absorbed for me to say all this.

Oh yes, they will be done for the White Whale May show.