About the art: beginning with a primed linen canvas and thinned oil paint, marking the darks with loose strokes with a rubber wedge and dragging the paint. Building layers working dark into light, blending with a soft brush, paper towels and fingers. Adding more dark washes of glaze and dragging them to create movement. Ending with lights and hot spots using a palette knife and a small rubber wedge. This piece is inspired by both our adventures in the wilderness and our wanderings in reading books, combining the misty mystery of mountains hiked with the unpredictable tempest that is the ocean of seafaring adventures.
16 Comments
8/14/2023 03:01:58 pm
I put myself in the picture. In yours, I’m near a waterfall and a river in the early evening in winter. But because it’s abstract, and art, I feel perfectly safe.
lola
8/16/2023 02:40:28 pm
Leslie!!! Your comment intrigues me....being able to place yourself in an abstract, but without. nostalgia. But being nostalgic, but not entangled, in the scene of something representational. I will be pondering this for day. 8/14/2023 04:24:37 pm
Until sometime around 2015, I didn't have much of a relationship with abstract art. For the most part, I didn't become engaged with it and, I think, if anyone had asked me what my thoughts were about abstract art, I would most likely have said I didn't care for it, nor did I have any interest in painting abstractly myself.
lola
8/16/2023 02:38:50 pm
Dotty!!! Whoa! What a fabulous comment.."the Rorschachian responses in myself" has me nodding and resonating. THAT! Yes! And holy macaroons...thank you for the ultra fabulous feedback on this piece. I am grinning!
Liz Walker
8/16/2023 03:06:47 pm
Great post, Lola! Although I do paint quite a bit of (wonky) representational paintings, I feel a real emotional connection to abstract art (the piece you posted is lovely). I think I like the mystery of abstract paintings: the variety of elements in it, and the liberating feeling that one doesn't have to paint THINGS, just shapes and relationships between those shapes (and colors, and lines,etc). I know it takes a certain way of looking/seeing to "get" abstract art, and not everyone appreciates it, but it's one of my favorite types of art.
lola
8/16/2023 03:10:47 pm
Liz!!! Yes, yes and YES! Your work always draws me in with the nod to representation, then keeps me wandering all around the painting with the abstractness - kind of the perfect visual adventure!
Carl S
8/16/2023 03:22:29 pm
Interesting stuff Lola.
lola
8/16/2023 03:25:35 pm
Carl!!! Your description makes great sense to me - fooling the brain and making it pause! I love thinking my brain is saying "oooooooh what is THIS?" when looking at something abstract. :)
Kyle Ingrid Johnson
8/16/2023 06:08:29 pm
Sometimes the colors chase each other across the canvas, appearing at dawn and disappearing at dusk. At other times, the colors - or sometimes the shapes - just haunt the viewer throughout the day. Some abstract paintings hang on a wall for the owner or the viewer to turn to - mostly unconsciously - for relaxation. Eventually, any abstract art in a collection becomes part of the owner's family. The pieces can be trusted, depended upon, and there when needed.
lola
8/17/2023 03:07:17 pm
Kyle, Kyle, KYLE! OMG! You have me jumping UP AND DOWN! Yes! I love the idea of an abstract as family - trusted, dependable and THERE!
Jan mccready
8/16/2023 07:01:41 pm
Abstract art draws you in. First the whole picture. What is the artist saying here. Is it expansive? Peaceful? Playful? Then we search the details. Is this piece humorous or serene? We need to have a very thoughtful approach to an abstract painting and allow time for it to reveal itself. Is it irony or meant to amuse us? Does it try to capture the essence of the time of day for example. Does it explode out of the canvas or pull you in? Abstraction needs our energy and attention to reveal itself.
lola
8/17/2023 03:09:01 pm
Jan!!!!!! You have me nodding enthusiastically! YES! Abstract pieces need time to reveal themselves - and our energy and attention! 8/18/2023 02:45:50 pm
As an abstract artist myself, my experience might be a little different. I feel the painting rather than think about it. It is a way for me to access realities beyond my conscious mind and open myself to a more expansive view. Most often there are no words to adequately speak about what I sense, though I do attempt it for others. For the most part I find them to diminish my experience or limit it at best.
Lola
8/18/2023 02:48:04 pm
Debra!!!! Your abstractions are ethereal - beyond words indeed! I feel them deep in my bones. I think your art demands a physical immersion from the viewer - it is extraordinary! 8/19/2023 02:59:31 am
Love to see you going abstract! What a great article! Thanks! I love the way I can read what I want in abstract art. A great connection with the painting and painter, a dialog. Started abstract and haven't
lola
8/19/2023 03:09:34 pm
Carol!!! Thank you for your encouragement and comment! Yay! Your abstraction is so deliciously organic and mesmerizing. I can dive deeply and never come up! Leave a Reply. |
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