Embryonic XXIII - 1996 by Synapse
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Windsor & Newton acrylic paint (yellow ochre, mars black) and liquid acrylic paint (lunar white) on textured watercolour paper, 9.5x12.5cm, 28th January 1996
When having painting sessions in years gone by, I would often end up with some unused paint on the palette. Common enough. Rather than just wash it straight down the sink I would tend to finish it off on simple experiments, both abstract and semi-abstract, and if I used up what was on the palette before completion I would concede to squeeze out a bit more! This was one such piece - yellow ochre was one of my favourite colours to paint with as W&N's had a particularly thick and creamy texture with plenty of body which mixed with other colours so well. Starting with the sky, I mixed the yellow ochre with the lunar white, which I had in liquid form as a throwback to airbrushing which I'd given up by then. Further down, I added more yellow ochre into the mix, painting a suggestion of a cityscape on the horizon before slowly adding black to dirty it up, ending with a murky junkyard in fog.
Cassie now has the original, a little present as it was her birthday on Monday - I wanted to let the 2D Forum posse know but I've been internet-less since Saturday evening and am having to upload this at work :-P
Thank you as always for your feedback, it's much appreciated :-)
Comments (12)
kenwas
Your cityscape in the background is very Turner like. Nice touch with the brush.
crrunchyfrog
I cannot begin to express to you how much I adore this painting hugest hugs Your brush technique is great, I love the textures you created against the smooth, mistyness of the city in the distance. Thank you so very much for this my sweet friend, I will treasure it as it hangs on my wall :) xxxx
Heart'Song
Lucky Cassie! I really like this.
Naichan
Synapse, do you intentionally play with our preconceptions, coz you're doing a pretty good job of it! I didn't realise you were so active in real world media. This one reminds me of the spires of Christminster (as in a novel by Thomas Hardy) seen from the misty distance from a coal bunker (NOT in a novel by Thomas Hardy!). A curious painting, and one that grabs one the longer one looks at it.
Synapse
Do I intentionally play with your preconceptions? I dunno. You'll know by now that there's a lot of intentional lack of intention in my stuff! I don't see any reason to dwell in just one tiny area of creative style.
I am not so active in "real world media" these days (notice this painting dates back to January 1996) but I haven't abandoned it either. I could never leave that behind altogether - for one thing I'm too much of a texture-monkey to do that ;-)
Thomas Hardy... only read one of his, had to do Tess of the D'Urbervilles for A-Level English Literature. Very atmospheric style, from what I remember, almost synaesthetic in his descriptions.
tibet2004uk
This looks very abstract to me. I can see the city line and all because u said that's what it is but otherwise I don't think I would see this at all! I really like the thick texture of the paint in the black area and the yellow and black works really well together! Very interesting piece and glad to see that kind of work from u! :)
gunsan
Damn good way to use unused paint!!
titta
Yes, lucky Cassie! (Happy birthday, Cassie *hugs') Jim, this is so beautiful, with those colors, with the extures, with those wavy lines.... wonderful! And the atmosphere is something you could go into and just enjoy:-)
cynlee
great transition of color & stylized loaded palleteknife strokes of left over paint... treat it like liquid gold as much as it's gone up... makes for a beautiful scape for cassie... happy birthday !! :] ..."internet-less"? arrrrgh...
gallimel
okay... I know.. I should check all I did miss, but energies lack... this values for allI have missed... dear.. without your art my days were half valuing. Hugs :)
mysnapz
So this is like that last frame on the film in my camera, always stopping me sending it to the developers I have found some pretty desperate subjects to use it up on. Not that this is desperate Jim, far from it. I like the recession in this and the contrasting smooth lines in the middle distance :0 )
pinkeiga
it seems to evoke san fransico post apocoalpticalicly or perphaps san fransicso is perfectly fine but the person in san fransico is biochemicaly not doing to well.