I may stretch this one on stretcher bars and see how far I can go with it...
The last few paintings are leading me to take stock and figure out what I'm gonna to do next. Over the last year and a half or so, my general painting philosophy has been large formats, abstract in a close-up and figurative from a distance. Some of my last paintings from last year reflected that fairly well. Recently, I've been clashing abstraction with pure figuration (deconstruction). Abstraction in design has also made an appearance in a few of my paintings on raw canvas (ultimate fighters), which is an interesting development. In terms of abstraction though, there is still a lot that I need to accomplish, especially with the human face or figure.
This year, the appeal of raw canvas has sent me in a slightly different path, which I felt was conducive to developing a more personal style or look while remaining true to my painting philosophy. However, I now realize that my rendering has progressively gotten tighter on that support (my flocks of birds are an exception), perhaps an unconscious effort to play it safe. Evidently, this is a departure from my usual painting philosophy. More recently, a more narrative approach to painting caught my attention (e.g., the painting above), but that also is not aligned to what I really wanted to accomplish.
I still have a fair amount of regular raw canvas to experiment with. My instinct tells me that I should build on what I have accomplished thus far on regular canvas, and go at it with gusto, using the palette knife and the brush simultaneously. It's when I loosen up that the real me emerges! However, I still want to maintain a painting stream characterized by a more fluid approach with metallic paint and fluo pink.
At the same time as following this game plan, I still want to develop further the contemporary look that made it's appearance in a few of my latest paintings. Time will tell where this is going to lead me!
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