This Was No Golden Child
20”x15” acrylic on paper
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Sometimes paintings come easily, and sometimes they don't. This painting felt like a long journey when I was hoping for an easy stroll, an argument that I couldn't resolve until I looked at every point of view, a meal whose recipe seemed simple until you're two hours in and starving. With this one, the background often competed too much with the subject with no place to rest the eyes and no real focus. Other times, bright unmuted yellows were garish and unsettling. Still other times it ventured too far into boring beigy brown. Blah! So, I kept at it until finally it all came together, and now I really love it. I learned a few things about monochromatic painting and composition, and it just reinforced with me that it doesn't matter if art is representational or abstract or both, the art elements of line, shape, space, texture, value, form, and color are still the key to a good painting.