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| Raindrops and Twinkle Lights work in progress Katherine Kean oil 18 x 24 inches |
This painting was stalled in the studio for some time. Can you blame me? To me these rainy paintings call for a wet on wet painterly approach - at least in the beginning, and that's something I find that demands a large block of uninterrupted studio time.
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| Raindrops and Twinkle Lights work in progress (detail) Katherine Kean oil 18 x 24 inches |
That means no pending appointments, phone calls, coffee dates, or distracted excursions into the garden. Once into it though, it couldn't be more fun. I love brushstrokes and painterly visual effects and I intend to go to town on this one; varied and broken brushstrokes, sketchiness, impasto, the works.
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| Raindrops and Twinkle Lights work in progress Katherine Kean oil 18 x 24 inches |
In the photo above there are about 4 layers of paint, with some areas having more transparency than others. Lately I am working on stormy, rainy, and snowy paintings and enjoying painting 'against' the season. While I'm painting I can almost forget that Los Angeles is in the middle of a strangely humid drought.
2 comments:
Wonderful work, Katherine. Painterliness has always been an object of my own 'responses'. Nothing is quite as exciting, IMHO, as letting the paint go about its business while you suggest pathways and relations to masses as they are formed. I think the key is a sensitivity to the surface and an affinity for the medium and pigment -something wordless yet so tactile that moments of euphoria come with a rush.
Hi Allan,
Well said. I might add that a willingness to explore how various mediums affect the paint flow is part of the fun.
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