New Acrylics May 2019

These paintings are all acrylic on board. It has taken me a while to develop the technique that offers such a high level of precision. It’s not without it’s restrictions however it has the potential to be painted on a very large scale something  I hope to do in future.

Excuse the colour descriptions I’ve kept them basic in reality they are in my mind a little more complex.

In the first painting I have taken an slightly orange yellow and alongside a blue tinted with green as two constant colours. Then from the top left of the painting to the bottom right I have moved the original yellow through green toward the original blue.

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In the second painting I have from top to bottom moved a blue to purple and an orange through to a red. Then from left to right a yellow to a green.

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The third painting is dominated a deep cadmium red with just a touch of blue coupled with a deep blue biased toward purple. These two colours are kept constant while I have moved a yellow from the top right towards the bottom left of the painting towards green.

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Finally a constant cobalt blue with a directly contrasting mid orange as two constant colours. Taking a yellow centrally and diagonally from top right to bottom left. I moved it towards  green in the top right corner and towards orange in the bottom left.

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An interesting trait of all this work is the horizontal and vertical lines that appear as an illusion. I assume this is the brain counterbalancing the effect of the white diagonal highlights.

Below are some more informal photographs.

 

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Here is a picture of a hung painting in it’s “raw” unframed state. Obviously a frame (no glass required) would make them look fantastic.