Red Grounds Rule and things

This is a really fun, complex pose that really forces me to look at shapes and shadows, instead of trying to draw/paint a human. This is at the blocking-in stage, just using a larger brush make gestural marks to get the basic framework. In the process I decided that I definitely don’t like a certain brand of paint for this kind of work. I like it for other things, but this type of painting, nope.

Because I only got this far, I’m using my gel plate as a stay-wet palette overnight, and I’m so chuffed I came up with that idea. I’m not saying I invented the idea, I have no idea if someone else has had the idea, it was just something that occurred to me.

The great thing about using a gel plate as a palette is that the remnants of of paint that are left can be pulled as a gel print, and you either have a reference for colours and palettes, or some interesting collage fodder.

I was using my 2″ circle punch to cut circles for some collage I was doing today, and it’s just so fun using these gel pulls from painting days to turn into collage fodder. A few of the circles were just too interesting to stick in a spread where they might disappear, so I pasted them into my circles sketchbook.

They might not look like much, but there are interesting little areas that might inspire something, and I thought I’d share to show that paint dregs can become a fresh part of the creative process.

I waste nothing.

Til the morn,

Suzanne

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