You know what's annoying? When you're working on a painting, but you can't talk about it or put pictures of it on the internet because it's a gift and must be kept hidden from the world until CHRISTMAS. Shhhh, it's like it only exists in my mind! I'm also moving forward with my dialogue paintings. I spent four hours straight lettering the other day, and my shoulders are SORE. A sneak peak: It still needs to be cleaned up. Also, I was so motivated to begin that I didn't give as much thought to my colors as I should have, and ended up with an unfortunate Dunkin Donuts / Juno effect. In the future, I'll actually put some consideration into it! The idea is to have it be pleasing (or at least interesting) to the eye from afar, a general impression of color and shape, and then resolve into dialogue as the viewer approaches. The conflict between the two characters (almost all the dialogue I've chosen is an intense moment between two people) should be reflected in the tension between the colors, the way they control different parts of the conversation, and canvas. Ok, is that enough Senior Review language for you? Sometimes I don't know if I even mean what I'm saying, or if my brain was forced by art-school environment to make an unfortunate evolutionary leap.
Well, I'm off to read "The Good War"! Only 12 years after it was assigned in school. Sorry, Christopher!
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