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Here is an update on a commissioned abstract painting I’ve been working on using split-complementaries (i.e. Red, Blue-Green & Yellow-Green)…It’s composition has been totally unplanned & improvisatory. Lets see what happens aye?

Here is an abstract painting I did on a wooden panel….I selected the colors based mostly on colors I had left over from my other (mostly figurative) paintings. I started to do these paintings a couple years ago as a way to not waste the paint that would eventually dry up on my palette (& hence be thrown out). They also have inadvertently become a great way for me to loosen up & experiment with different methods of paint manipulation & application… “Left Over Paint Into Abstraction, 4th version.”

Ahh…you know, for artists in general, there are two times in the creation of art that are the most enjoyable…the first is the moment right before the artist starts to work on the artwork itself & thus when all possibilities are open to choose from, & the “idea,” or “concept,” that the artist has is still an abstract notion inside of him/her. The second moment in creating art that most artists particularly love, is when the artwork they have been working on is finally finished! Don’t get me wrong, the actual process in creating art is obviously a great feeling too, & sometimes if one is in what I call “a groove or rhythm,” it could verge on being a meditative act or dialogue for the artist. But for the most part, it is like giving birth…there can be a struggle at times, sometimes it goes fast, then slow,…(although I’m clearly not a woman, so I guess that might be an exaggerated & far-fetched comparison,) you get my drift. Well without further philosophical pondering’s on the process of art, here is the finished Double-Portrait commission of Anne & Joe. Which took me 42 hours to complete..! (damn & usually it takes me 24 to 30 hours to finish one of these portrait commissions).Although I do have to admit, I think its the best commissioned portrait I’ve done so far. (Note:to see the drawing below with a better resolution I would suggest you right click over the image, select view image, then zoom in on the drawing to see it better…)