Painting Technique 1

-Blog entry 11

Medium differences play a large but perhaps subtle role in the range pf possibilities in my work and with acrylic, oil paint or oil pastels I have discovered a use for a fluid mixing of color while retaining the structure of what lies beneath the changes offered by what is traditionally called “nature”.
Working on-site differs from my studio work in many important ways. My first pursuits working out-of –doors were practical in that they provided me with the necessary studies by which to begin my studio paintings. They also offered what is necessary for me, “direct perception” and the confrontation of fact. I should also add that it is this context that I mostly refer to with the word “nature”.

The paintings here are not simply studies and I consider them to be finished in the same sense as the studio work. In both cases these are a confrontation with fact and the interlocking of image and paint or idea and technique such that the marks defining the forms move and alter the shape and therefore the implications
of the drawn image.