It took a couple more painting sessions for me to feel good about this n0n-objective diptych in black and white. In the first session, I painted over a lot of what I'd added in the previous session. I painted with a brush using titanium white, but left traces of the paint beneath. I've also been trying to put a lot of texture on these canvases.
In my last session, I used a thinner black paint and applied it quickly to give it a "splash-dash" feel, letting the paint spatter a bit along the edges. In the photo below you can see where I painted over in white as well as the final loose "splash" effect in black.
Black and white non-0bjective diptych, each piece 10" x 48" acrylic on canvas.
Love,love,love,love......all that you do but black and white always speaks to me. I was looking for your email address to write you privately but seem to have missed it. do you give that out? karin Lynn Cumming
Posted by: Karin Lynn Cumming | February 15, 2012 at 07:22 AM
Thanks, Karin. My email is [email protected] and is on the front of my website http://www.artbylt.com but I guess I should put it on my blog, too!
Lynne
Posted by: Lynne Taetzsch | February 15, 2012 at 11:13 AM
I love how these paintings turned out Lynne! FABULOUS! I just finished up a grueling all-niter for day-job work to get two publications off to press, but tomorrow I might just have time to paint! Your paintings have inspired me, but with only 3 hours of sleep in the past 48 hours, I am not going near a paintbrush.
Posted by: Deb Ammerman | February 15, 2012 at 07:04 PM
Thanks, Deb. I agree the first thing you need is sleep, THEN PAINT! (although it could be an interesting experiment . . .)
Lynne
Posted by: Lynne Taetzsch | February 16, 2012 at 03:42 PM