ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION
NO PAINTBRUSHES WERE UTILIZED TO CREATE THIS PAINTING
My painting is titled: OFF THE WALL formerly titled: LOVE HEART
As per usual, I only start a new painting whenever I feel an internal nudge to begin.
However, on this particular day, I had grown tired of utilizing paintbrushes to apply paint to any surface. In other words, I wanted to use a different tool rather than the norm to express my creative pursuits.
So with my 130gsm quality bare white paper begging for paint, I squeezed black acrylic paint and a smidgen of titanium white on the paper then reached for a palette knife. Yup... a small silver palette knife!
I used the flat edge to form the boxes in quick successions, going across the top from one side to the other. And you can see where a clean palette edge was used to define the thin white lines as well as the thin & thick black spaces.
Not only was I fed up of using brushes to paint, I was also fed up of always using acrylic paint, my medium of choice, and decided in the moment to add water color: orange and red and green.
So I got busy doing and very little thinking...I just allowed my intuition to guide me. Then once I snapped out of my self-absorption, I stood back and thought, WTF...
The 'F' stands for 'Fudge', if you get easily offended by mindless profanity. LOL!
Without further cursing and swearing, I took a snapshot of the image and uploaded it to my computer. For some asinine reason, I've drummed it in my skull that I can see it/things/images clearer when it's on screen.
There, it resembled a map...a map of what....meh....I don't know.
So I thought....okaaay... let's run with this idea
However, there was that hole...staring at me....not really formed and the idea that the world needs so much love instinctively had me form of a pure white heart. Then, decided that if this was going to be some sort of map, then it needed the elements of a global map.
At the bottom right, my pointer finger dipped in orange, white green and blue watercolor created the coastline, sand and sea/ocean.
And as I mentioned before, with abstract, you just have to instinctively know when to stop and put the palette knife down!
I know, I know, this painting gets curiouser and curiouser ...because in the end, the title had nothing to do with the concept on which came about.
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