I think I can see what you mean here. Am I allowed to say this is one of my favorites of yours. :)
You should explain your approach here.
I think what you have here is a very large space on a very small canvas. The water is a little geometric for me, but I like how it drifts off into the back, repeating the rythym of the water with smaller and smaller waves. And then the people dwindle away as well. Very nice.
The painting is from 2003, so Knackerson's work was new to me. I wanted to blend his abstraction and bold colour with my own style, or "capabilities" if you will. To leave that much room on a canvas for sky and water was, and remains a challenge for me. As was blobbing the sun out of a sphere shape. It has almost every medium of paint on it. I also believe it had a lot to do with my Grandfather's funeral a few months prior. i still don't understand the "poles" and why I left them...
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I approached this canvas prentending I was Knackerson (this isn't new, but on my mind)
I think I can see what you mean here. Am I allowed to say this is one of my favorites of yours. :)
You should explain your approach here.
I think what you have here is a very large space on a very small canvas. The water is a little geometric for me, but I like how it drifts off into the back, repeating the rythym of the water with smaller and smaller waves. And then the people dwindle away as well. Very nice.
yes, please explain.
I love the idea of approaching a project as someone else, a complex hybridity.
Wasn't there a painter who claimed that he only painted what his dead sister told him to paint? or maybe it was a writer? I dunno
The painting is from 2003, so Knackerson's work was new to me. I wanted to blend his abstraction and bold colour with my own style, or "capabilities" if you will. To leave that much room on a canvas for sky and water was, and remains a challenge for me. As was blobbing the sun out of a sphere shape.
It has almost every medium of paint on it. I also believe it had a lot to do with my Grandfather's funeral a few months prior.
i still don't understand the "poles" and why I left them...
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