Woman With Blue Beast
Added 2025-03-16 13:12:51 +0000 UTCThis is one of 10 paintings I made for an upcoming show entitled “Good Mud” at Half Gallery’s Annex space opening March 26th, 2025. All of these studies were made on wood panel, with the initial lay in made with oil pastel. In this case, I started on a warm ground with a saturated transparent green as my base layer for the figure. As the painting became finished, more warm opacity was added. Generally paintings start out as more transparent, and become more opaque, but I find there is a certain feeling of lamentation as the transparency is covered. I don’t know why that is. I guess I like the duality to exist between the transparent and opaque. I don’t like paintings that are uniformly opaque.
