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A touch of Blue
It’s interesting that as the month progresses my mood has changed with the weather. Continual cold, snow and ice have taken their toll – on the trees, the birds, the roads and certainly on me. Probably as the weather a depression has settled on my life at the moment which each day seems deeper and more debilitating.
- Grand Canal – gentle presentation
It is very evident in my paintings too – like the bird habits have changed in that are frantically feeding, as they know the depression is worsening – I too have deepened my paint technique. Deeper colors, heavier brush strokes and more intensity and fast moving in to a “Blue period”. Seems to me that this has happened before and to the very best Artists in the world (and no I’m not in the same league) and it must be an artist’s malaise of some sort that I now find myself in this same situation.
My Grand Canal for example previously a rather competent though pictorial painting and which I have to say gave me some pleasure.
Suddenly I had this compulsion to re-do this work as it in my eyes was lacking something – interest? intensity? – lacking emotion maybe closer to the truth.
- Grand Canal – as I see it today
Ah! Now this is much better – certainly in my frame of mind today that is. Much more intensity, more feeling, more of an impression of what I can feel of the water, the sky and the Venetian architecture – the immediate intake of data into the brain, the colors and the hoovering up of these live sensations. that’s the key.
In the last post I was compelled to suddenly produce another “blue” image – with very intense ultramarine coloration. Not quite impressionist but with a certainty that my stuff is moving inexorably in that direction. Not only an impressionist tendency but along with the strong blue is perhaps a dangerous combination. Now that scene is a little darker, more intense and very much more impressionist than ever before. I suppose it’s encouraging that it’s not yet a “tortured” and distorted vision driven on to canvas in great lumps and if truth be known I really do prefer it to the first image.
So for me a great improvement and I’m actually quietly pleased with it, but it’s also just that little bit disconcerting. . .
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