Thursday, July 5, 2012

"News Channel with Flamingos"



I saw this image without the flamingos on the news.  It flashed for a moment on TV and I jotted down the sketch before I forgot it back in 2007.  So I painted it and I didn't like the finished painting so I put it away in storage.  I brought it out of storage a few weeks ago and I had some torn newspaper on it that made it look more interesting, but I still didn't like it. I've been messing around with pink flamingos lately and collage and I threw my cut-out flamingos on the table and they happened to land on this painting, which is on paper, and magic happened- it was a match.  It worked and I finally found a solution to this painting 

"Colonial with Reeds"


The main idea for this painting was to divide the painting with the diagonal of the reeds and reveal only a part of the house.  The monochromatic green helped me tie all the parts of the painting together.
 
I did these two studies to simplify the subject.  I reduced the colors and the shapes.  I think I do it for more dramatic images.

Study

"Untitled"

"Untitled"

"Untitled"

"Red Tower"