#woven pattern

The works on paper that I am currently making instill my belief in the mantra: Paintings come from painting. Ideas and directions, ways of tweaking work can materialize from the act of making. Continuing explorations of pattern, the idea of repetition, a woven or wicker effect with more variety and possibilities. This effect I am after gets transferred, revised, improved with each painting. That is the beauty of Work on Paper, a cost effective way to take chances, explore, solve problems, All while generating work.

It’s Friday and another week has sped by, luckily the days are documented with work and good living. Below see two recent works on paper with details. Continuing my explorations of pattern, specifically a woven layout. Attempting to simulate the feeling of over, under. Slowing down the approach, paying attention to parts, where things meet. Brushstrokes speaking for themselves, and their simplicity evoking something. A fellow artist pointed out that it made him think of wicker which resonated. From youth wicker has always been a pleasing texture for me. Leading up to and when I began this group I was thinking more of the weave of fabric, the warp and weft. Now wicker is a reference.

Or as Sondheim perfectly phrased, “Seeing all of the pieces but none of the whole”…I often focus on parts of paintings when promoting work because the detail is so vivid. But suppose as someone recently posed to me, the detail is more interesting than the whole? If a detail is the best part of an overall work then I have a problem, unless it’s the focus or intention. With that said, we can only focus on one area at a time when looking at a work. So the recipe for making a painting is a bunch of cohesive details. What about when viewing a picture and there is an awkward moment in the painting? It may be a problem or, what makes the painting successful. So the trick is to make All parts good. Glad I solved that.

…As if I were Trees. The ground could open, He would still say, PLEASE. Who Could Know With You George?

My response to the question: What if the detail is better than the whole? I sometimes think of executing the detail in a larger format, but usually just move on.

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