Part 3....It is a Painting!

26/3/2017

I like it! I've named it "Vistas", oil, 40" wide x 30" tall.

So it turned out to be a horizontal painting. I kept wanting that but for the longest it was working as vertical.

How did I end up getting here? Good question. If you watched Part 1 and Part 2, you saw that for a while I was just pushing paint around. Truly, I would add a color and stroke it around but nothing was speaking to me. At some point I got tired of that, turned it to a horizontal and began pulling large areas together.

I live in the mountains, I love the mountains, but I rarely paint them. So I started to see if the paint would work in a mountain range format.

It became a pleasure and now I switched to oils. As I worked I scraped through to some of the other layers of color that had been laid down over the days. I love doing that - scratch through and there is what you have been working on earlier only now it is enhancing the piece. Oil paints are the best, IMO, for scratching through and pulling together sections into luscious color.

Suddenly the paint, canvas and I were hearing the same music. It began to come together and I got to work with my beautiful purple and lavenders. The color in this one is stunning. It is going on the website for sale RIGHT NOW...details for VISTAS here.

If you missed it, you might enjoy watching the videos in Part 1 and Part 2 that show how I started.
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3 Comments

Dale

5/4/2017 01:49:52 pm

This is a great idea, but I am confused...#2 video painting is acrylic & #3 states it is oil and doesn't look anything like #2. ??

Nan

5/4/2017 07:01:38 pm

Hey Dale, thanks so much for following my progress with this painting, and thank you for the question. I explained in Part 3 but maybe not very well.
I start most of my paintings with acrylic because I can either block out or build up layers and they dry quickly, are great for texture and I can go on. I work spontaneously with those layers waiting to see what will appear that I can use. Sometimes those spontaneous marks can become the basis for something abstract. Sometimes they don't form anything cohesive and at some point I need to start pulling parts together and heading in a direction.
That's what happened with this one. I worked with it a while and had some really beautiful areas but together they did not create a composition.
Lately I've been finishing with oils because they will slide around and reveal some of what is underneath, or I can scrape through and see bits of the beautiful "history" I started with.
Because of the acrylic layers, their colors and some of their shapes I pulled them together into mountain vistas. The oil paint is the icing.
Come take a look in person. I'd love to have you visit.
Nan

DALE WHITE

7/4/2017 05:14:18 pm

Hi Nan, thanks for taking the time for the explanation. Now I get it!! The finished work is really beautiful! I didn't realize you could combine the two mediums...
Would like to see u too. Maybe lunch??

Nan Davis Contemporary Art