What are you working on?

[Mississippi Hippie]

I love your painting Ayin. It’s nice to hear from you again. I felt like sharing and getting online because I missed seeing work like yours, so nice to be back.

 

[stlukesguild]

My wife is certain I destroyed my current work in progress… and honestly, it could most certainly be defined as being at the height of the ugly stage. I won’t even show it until I have time to perform some serious reconstructive surgery. I hadn’t worked on it since March or April. Looking at it recently I found a number of issues with it… and simply disliked the way it was headed. So I painted out the figure and will begin reworking it today.

 

[Mississippi Hippie]

My spouse said he was doubting my painting at every step and it came around stlukesguild so keep it up.

 

[Artyczar]

I love your painting Ayin. It’s nice to hear from you again. I felt like sharing and getting online because I missed seeing work like yours, so nice to be back.

Thank you very much! And it's so good to have you back! I missed you too!

 

[stlukesguild]

Well… I’m about to do something that I haven’t done in years: abandon a work in progress. The last time I did this I was about halfway finished with the painting and had taken it to the college class that I was taking for necessary professional development hours needed to renew my teaching license. When I returned home it was pouring and so I left the painting in the car trunk (rain and pastel are not a good mix). The rain continued for days and so I decided to leave it in the car trunk until the following weekend when I could take it into my studio. At some point my brother picked up some groceries and stacked them on top of the painting. When I took the painting out there was a series of deep creases and cracks in the acrylic. I tried everything… to no avail: steam, ironing, blow drying, etc… The painting was toast. Not being ready to trash it, I used some large sheets of tracing paper and a lot of measurements and copied the painting exactly onto a new surface. Within two days… very long days… I had reproduced the painting up to the stage where the original had been before it was destroyed.

This time, I simply disliked a number of elements… especially the central figure/portrait. I set about to rework this after sanding down and painting out the figure. After several false starts I found the surface was becoming impossible to work with. So… I’ll be taking it down and rolling it up and hanging a new sheet of paper.

 

[Amit]

What's the latest painting or project you've been working on? Describe it or post a work in progress (if you feel like it). Would love to know! Perhaps this thread will keep us on our toes.

I am new in the forum, I am working on a painting which is all about a little girl eyes closed holding a big yellow flower, honey is flowing out of flower and dropping on her hand . Background is landscape of a sunflower garden and distance mountain, almost dark all around, sun rising with a bright yellow patch back of mountain. A touch orange rays on dark sky . The painting is having a spiritual values which I explained after completing my painting.

 

[stlukesguild]

I’m working on NOTHING today. I woke up with a nasty stomach virus …or food poisoning . I spent most of the day in bed. Only now… evening… have I been able to eat.

I ordered some metal tacks online and they arrived around 4 this afternoon so I’ll be able to hang the new paper tomorrow.

 

[stlukesguild]

I took down the ruined work-in-progress and measured the piece in order to cut the new paper to the same size… which is about the limit of what I can work on in my current work space. I discovered that I am using a work surface that falls almost within the “golden rectangle”. My earlier works were far taller than the “golden rectangle”:

This, by the way, is the drawing/painting that I mentioned above as being completely redone after ruined halfway through. I had long been aware of the “golden rectangle”… at least since my freshman Art History course and the study of the Parthenon. No doubt, my admiration of the works of Klimt, Alphonse Mucha, MaxBeckman, Japanese Prints, and even El Greco influenced my preference for tall, narrow formats… but this video really inspired my interest in the “golden rectangle’: