Big Studio Paintings. Layering & Process

okay so i thought i'd try something a little bit different today i've got these two um large uh paintings they're a meter square on board um i started them earlier this week so they've got a fair amount of paint on them already um but you know obviously they've still got you know quite a way to go yet but um the idea behind these is that you know every now and again and especially at this time of year i get this real urge to do some sort of river reflections paintings and i've done a few of them in the past and what i like about working with the sort of reflections and looking in is that you get a sense of you know really looking into the landscape rather than sort of looking at the landscape it's a little bit like the idea that i've got this one here this is a previous one um and it's got a lot of um sort of printed leaves on it i'd make a little print block out of some leaves and i kind of push that onto the surface and then kind of work into it and work over them but there's the idea of sort of um sort of peering into the landscape you get that sense of the kind of sky reflecting back at you and uh so you're not so much looking at it but you're kind of looking really into it so it's a lot of fun and they've really quite loose non-pictorial kind of paintings and i just can't really enjoy doing them so that's really what i want to do on these on these two um the one that i was just showing is actually on canvas and these are on some boards that i've made so it's a harder surface so i can really kind of attack it and kind of uh you know work into it like i do with the smaller boards i use so yeah i'll do a bit of painting and we'll see what happens okay so i'm really um really kind of still at a very much a sort of mark making place with these paintings and i just want to just keep playing around with them on here i've put quite a bit of spray paint on as well it's a kind of mixture of acrylic it's like acrylic spray as well actually which is quite good because it's not too smelly and uh do some in a minute so i'm actually just got a little bit of um kind of sludgy green [Music] acrylic paint at the moment just a mixture of some some black and a a bit of a green olive green so [Music] i think when i'm at this sort of stage of the paintings part of me is reacting to the the idea that i've got for the paintings and actually there's a couple of sketches that i could show you that i'm looking at um which are it's like this one it's a little watercolor sketch that i did down by the river so you've got kind of a river in the river bank so it's kind of like the idea the colors and this one as well again very loose just looking at the kind of reflections in the river i'll put those up on the screen so you can see them a bit better so i'm sort of 50 50 at the moment working with you know these ideas of um you know where where i think you know with the the sketches you know looking at the sketches um thinking about just different ideas from those sketches and the other part of it is actually just reacting to what's happening on the surface um just trying to play around and make interesting marks and shapes and textures again you know i like working on more than one um because you can carry ideas across backwards and forwards so when i'm looking at my little sketches and just trying to get a sense of the sort of flow rivery flow i do want to have some leaves on these as well but i'm not going to draw those i mean it looks like i am at the moment but i'm not just making marks really um so i got some ideas about how i might do that i was trying it yesterday i'll show you in a minute [Music] these are just those big chunky pencils again this is really great for making marks particularly on a nice hard surface like this it's uh it's rather good um and again i like these sort of spray painty kind of marks i might pull that out it's got a bit lost in there this is like a spongy roller it's great working on large scale paintings because you can really sort of throw yourself into it um you know quite a physical way because i quite like working on just a spray bottle because i've got so much paint underneath it's quite nice to sort of reveal stuff i can actually use this for making marks as well which is quite good i think particularly at this sort of stage of the painting i really don't want it to resolve at all i just want to see if i can find interesting shapes and texture trying to get a feeling in the paintings a feeling of sort of reflecty river so i get a bit of this as well this is just some acrylic paint again but it's this kind of pale blue would be quite nice to be decorating brush [Music] so i'm sort of looking at the sketches and thinking about those but at the same time reacting to things that are happening on the surface the way that shapes and things are revealing themselves and pulling those out [Music] letting the painting itself sort of dictate a little bit where it's going so i've got sort of semi-random stuff happening but then i'm kind of pulling out and enhancing the random stuff that's going on because you know in the same way with the um the little paintings that i do i don't i don't want these to [Music] i don't want to know where they're going i want them to sort of just happen as they go along and be a surprise and you know so i you know like i said i was looking at the the painting i was doing before the older one um and i really like that painting but i don't want to do another one i don't want to do another version of that same painting but i'd like to have you know a couple of paintings which have got these sort of same idea behind it so it's the same the same idea reflections in the river it's going to have floaty leaves on it sorry about the scratching that's the thing about board it's very noisy yes it's going to have these sort of river reflections floaty leaves [Music] so the idea is the same but i don't want the paintings to look the same [Music] this is against just a white acrylic [Music] and in the same way as thinking about the um the small paintings that i do i like to sort of switch between different uh tools you know so uh at one point i'm using you know the knife and the brush i'm getting with a roller this is still got some of the dark paint on it so it's kind of mixing in [Music] things like that are quite nice using a roller because it um sort of again it kind of skims over the top a little bit so everything working with a brush it kind of everything gets kind of mushed together and goes a bit murky so i quite like using a roller because it gets you to keep what's there but you also you don't lose it you know kind of going sorry you're going over the top but you're not losing what's underneath it's quite nice reflections [Music] so yeah i was thinking about the uh of different ways of putting the leaves on or getting a sense of this sort of idea of the leaves um so i thought i'd give it a go [Music] with a bit of spray paint so i've made um [Music] i've made a kind of mask and just cut a little leafy shape out get the glasses off because i can't see [Applause] this is acrylic spray so it's not too smelly that's quite interesting so it might be a bit muffled because i've got a must painted mask on now these things i put them on and then because there's some underneath on this one i quite like the idea of putting things on and then working over them and then bringing them back again so you get this sort of layering building up so if i can knock them back a little bit i thought this might be quite a handy way of doing it because it's quite quick i like that shape there i don't know what it is but i just like it get a different color got a uh quite a nice sort of um pale green one again this is an acrylic spray so maybe i could work over the top mix them but i'll knock all these but they're a bit raw at the moment as the mark it's a bit bit naff but i think as it goes on it could be quite good long way to go with this yet i think it should be just kind of fun just seeing what's got yeah it looks a bit silly but it'll get there i think things would like this i quite you'll see in the um the other ones that i've done is i'm looking for a sort of rhythm with the these leaf shapes so i want it to be kind of like you know it's been taken with the flow of the river and they're a bit chaotic at the moment but you know it's early days yet [Music] now i'm sorry if the video is kind of bouncing around a bit my floor is a bit bit bouncy as i'm walking backwards and forwards it's making um i'll try and walk softer it's quite a different sort of thing working with these uh you know big paintings i mean that's what i really like i like working with this kind of scale because you can really get your body into it you know kind of make a make big marks if anybody got two like this you can almost carry marks across [Music] and uh yeah like i was saying i'm not entirely sure well i'm not sure at all where they're gonna go a bit complicated at the moment i want to simplify the compositions down but that's okay because just making lots of sort of interesting marks on the surface and some of them will survive and some of them won't well that's okay you know it's uh sometimes you never quite know what you're gonna get until you've done it that's why i like to kind of play around like this and hopefully just end up with something that i wasn't expecting i'm quite liking this down here it's a bit softer and a bit more subtle this is all a bit kind of mad the compositions do tend to simplify and resolve as they go on [Music] that might be on the next layer i might do something a little bit like this but when the paint's dry might knock some of that chaos out make it a bit more you know a bit simpler as a composition i quite like carrying marks off the surface and bringing them back on again as if there's something going on outside [Music] it's a bit wooly that brush [Music] i don't really want that sort of blending kind of thing going on i'd rather have a bit more [Music] definite [Music] there's blue marks up there but they're a bit raw at the moment so that's you know kind of what i wanted to do today was just do a little bit on there and just kind of show you how the um these paintings sort of [Music] progress a few drips and things in there to get some random random stuff going on because this nice oranges but i do like that orange it works really well with all those kind of muted greens [Music] it's all about the masks this year isn't it so yeah that's kind of um you know really what i wanted to do is kind of put a layer on i'll probably leave them now that's probably enough actually i'll let them dry some of these drips will continue as well so let the paint do a little bit of the work for me um and see what they look like when they've got another when they've dried a little bit and i can maybe knock some of this back a little bit as well and start working into it again with some more pencil marks and things and just kind of really keep playing with them until the compositions start to um develop to a point where i can sort of see where i want them to go by this stage i'm not really expecting them to to look like anything um you know the rhythm isn't isn't right they're a bit chaotic but i kind of let those things develop over the course of time and like i said i don't i don't want to know i don't want to know what they're going to look like when they're finished i've got a sort of general idea but um but i want them to be a surprise really so anyway i hope you found that useful and um maybe next time i'll do a little bit more on them i'll put the film on again and see what happens okay thanks a lot

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Length: 17min 59sec (1079 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 21 2020