OK, OK so I didn’t finish all the paintings that have been lingering, but I am really close, so I gave myself the go-ahead to start the new ones!
The “lingering” paintings have been experiments in spontaneous decisions about colors, shapes, textures, relationships, etc. I treat them like a game where I impose a problem that I have to solve. The decisions create other challenges and eventually I resolve them in a finished piece. They tend to mutate, and take some time to come to completion, which is part of the process. But I am antsy to get my new ideas on canvas. These are compositions that I have worked out on the computer and now need to take tangible form. So, I am taking the insights I have gained from those experiments and applying them to the new paintings. Basically areas of random process in contained, deliberate space. It adds some organic mystery to the hard edge shapes and creates a secondary motion to the composition.
