Not for sale: Destroyed
Sometimes paintings just don't work out. This is one of them. In my effort to get color into my work in the dead of winter, I tried to use exaggerate color but in my effort to do so, I ended up using too much white mixed into my color. The result, a chalky mess.
Because of my working method with color, it is a delicate balance to use white mixed with color without over doing it. Color is releative. Depending on where it is placed, what color it is placed next to, it is perceived differently. I've found that what color mixture works in one painting won't work in the next if I place it next to the wrong color.
I've also found that some very bright paintings are bright because of their color relationship, but when I place them next to paintings using colors from the tube, or with paints not mixed very much, then the bright painting can appear dull. It's a very delicate balance that in this case failed.
Because of my working method with color, it is a delicate balance to use white mixed with color without over doing it. Color is releative. Depending on where it is placed, what color it is placed next to, it is perceived differently. I've found that what color mixture works in one painting won't work in the next if I place it next to the wrong color.
I've also found that some very bright paintings are bright because of their color relationship, but when I place them next to paintings using colors from the tube, or with paints not mixed very much, then the bright painting can appear dull. It's a very delicate balance that in this case failed.
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