by Lynne Ayers

I’ve been itching to paint lately after (many) hours editing THE BOOK.  Inspired by Louise Fletcher I grabbed a canvas and began.

I took ripped collage papers I had created myself and using gel medium, pasted them hither thither over the whole canvas.  Then I used mars black and zinc (transparent) white and a palette knife and applied without any specific concept in mind other than that I wanted to do an abstract-y landscape. The hope is to cover up much and have collage poke through here and there for layers of interest.

My colours as best I recall were sap green, cad orange, cobalt blue, titan buff and raw sienna which altogether gave some lovely greys.

I paint best, and enjoy painting the most, when I follow the leads I get from the canvas as I move paint around rather than from looking out the window or at a photo. I just respond and it allows me to lose my afternoon and myself in the making of (hopefully) art.

I like this method and have already worked on two more and (pity the kids), there’ll probably be more. 

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