This week's post is a continuance of last week's series. Brilliant colours and pigments sprayed on to paper (20 x 20 cm).
Beautiful blues and greens!
Much light!
Beautiful blues and greens!
Much light!
 Recently, I went to a Retrospective of works by Christian Roeckenschuss, a Berlin artist of the 70s. I was taken in by how timeless the works on display were. A closer examination of his works revealed what I had suspected: like many others he spray painted his (large) canvases. Most were adhesive strips mounted on canvas. He was not averse to using material in a most sublime way. My own paper work (acrylic on paper, 20 x 20 cm) is very earthy in contrast. Still striving to get control over this new medium. Much light!  In this week's post, I am exploring the interaction of colours and non-colours. These are to be seen more as doodles and seeds of ideas. The blacks, white and greys seem to shout out at one and the cacophony of colours seem to recede away. I expected it to be the other way around. Interesting effect! Much light!
This week has been a week of introspection and of throwing out unnecessary things. As I perused through all the old stuff, I came across this series that I did about 5 years ago. The starting point was a common kitchen gadget here in Germany, the Potato Masher. I did a total of 24 sketches in this series. Looking at the sketches I posted three weeks ago, I couldn't help noticing the similarities, although the starting points were entirely different. I am hoping I will have the time to find all my cross connections. Much light!  In this sketch, I used colour with my repeating unit of a small triangle. The repeating units were made of lines, giving them a transparency. I then used shaded in rectangles to form squares. Squares are very harmonious shapes and to liven up the harmony, each square is made of two or more colours: some times in stark contrast and other times almost monochrome. This sketch could be the seed for an explorative series. Much light!    This week, I would like to post some images from my sketch book! The less I say, the better ;) Much light! |
