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Detail #1 - "Parts of a Whole..."

7/5/2017

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Detail of a vertical mixed media painting 24"x12" in progress. 

​For the next 6 months as I work towards a new series of paintings, I will be featuring 'Details' of these current paintings In progress. (A 'Detail' of a painting is a part or portion of it considered in isolation.)

What happens when a particular area doesn't work or gel with the rest? Sometimes it is the best part of the work but sadly enough, even the best part of a work of art has to be sacrificed for the betterment of the rest of the painting... Yikes !!! scary but true.

It is in these times I like to separate it from the whole by photographing and enjoying it as a complete piece on its own. It may eventually be saved on the original painting or it may be the last interaction I have with it on that piece. At least here it wont be forgotten, I can learn from it and it may even get the honor of becoming its very own painting in the future. Who knows if this detail will remain a part of the whole painting; a new painting; or not.

​Will it Stay? or Sashay Away :-)  

​ ...Either way I get to honor it here.


2 Comments
Sharon Mulvaney
7/5/2017 06:24:12 pm

I never thought of a painter going through something like this! I do thing likes this with my yarn projects all the time sometimes if I 'm not happy with a project I let it sit for a while, when I pick it back up it ends up being totally different than I intended...

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Alison
7/5/2017 09:10:03 pm

Oh yes this happens a lot with my work. I have tons of work that are on Time-out in the corner :-) and it may take weeks, months even years for me to revisit them - They either become something else totally or when i look at them with fresh eyes the solution comes right away.

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    I am a Contemporary Trinidadian Fine Arts Painter. My work discusses ideas of culture, identity and the role we play within our communities. 

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