Last night, I gave a little lecture at my friend, Ray’s, Art Practices class at San Francisco State. He asked me to talk about, among other things, how I came to my particular art form. Hm, well, besides the biographical events that led me to decorative painting, there’s the physical aspect of painting on a large scale that I like- oh, and that someone could be enveloped in the experience that I created with color, texture, pattern…
But my Painting a Week Challenge is about well, challenging myself, so I did the unthinkable…
I painted these teeny tiny (2″ x 4″ to be exact) canvases to see if I could still create movement and the spontaneous interactions that paint and color can generate…
I did them quickly- so I wouldn’t let myself get paralyzed by the size- and kicked out some pretty interesting little starter pieces… they remind me of a couple of my favorite painters who, funny enough…
(Clifford Still)
(James Nares)
Paint really, really big…
(James Nares in his studio)
(An observer lost in a Clifford Still painting)
The cool thing is, beyond walls and ceilings, I’m also seeing these textures and patterns as textiles… hm… maybe I can integrate my floral paintings with some cool pattern and see them both coming off a bolt some day.
