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step 4 Ok, the drawing is done. Now I begin to throw some paint on. Often the sky is a good place to start, as it is easy to paint objects in front of it later. But this is definitely not a rule, I have no rules. Painting very thinly with lots of linseed oil, I brush a blue oil wash across the whole sky with a large brush, thickening it in parts with heavier titanium white, and smearing it around with rags and brushes. With nature, I have discovered that imitation just never works, unless you are a photo realist. You have to actually paint in the way that nature moves. So instead of looking at a picture of clouds and trying to reproduce how they looked at a certain moment in time, I 'feel' how clouds form and move, and actually make the clouds, rather than copy them. In this way, just as the wind draws out long lines of water vapour in the sky into cirrus cloud, I wash out long streaks of white through the blue in long smooth movement, imitating the movent of nature, not the look, and I basically let the clouds form themselves. There is of course great control and intense observation needed, and this is the interesting balance of my kind of art, to find that place between control and acceptance of what is. The same problem exists in life generally. |
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