Still working on my recent painting, initially a sortof portrait of MRS. His fascination with the artist Man Ray was something I wanted corporated into the piece, which singles this painting out from the rest of my pieces as it pulls imagery from one of his most famous pieces and merges them into this piece.
As it turns out, the main quandry is the portrait treatment itself. At this moment, it can't help but stand apart in the piece, both in treatment and feeling. I now have the destinct feeling that the painting will move further away from a portrait, perhaps my definition thereof, by virtue of the problem of my own making: the allowance of colour to define dimension and depth within each shape, while uniting them into a whole. How to do this while still maintaining character within a facial 'portrait'? Of course, i've been experimenting with a loosening of the dependence on lines, which is only adding to my current questioning.
I need to feel my way forward on this one, as my next piece is already in mind and will face the same challenge, compounded by numbers of persons and water. Hmmm. Gotta think for a night. Will do some more drawings in the meantime.
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