Land of the Rising Fish Heads

Here is some of my work going on in the BFA house right now: 

Detail

This is the painting I showed in my last post. I have re-worked it since then and now I am taking a little break with it. Right now it feels right, and I want to let it sit for a few days. While I'm resting with that painting, I have gone back to one I started last fall but haven't touched in months (pictured below). I felt like it became irrelevant to my new ideas and wanted to start again on it. Today was an awesome painting day. I got a lot accomplished and I felt good about what I was doing. I wish every day could be that way. I think I am most productive when I can be working on multiple projects and bounce back and forth. It's not really my thing to do something start to finish. I like to ponder it and re-visit paintings a number of times before they really feel finished to me. 

The colors in these images are not perfect, but you get the idea. In this new painting, I am playing with the idea of hybrid spaces and figures. I think it is similar to my big paper painting (of course). This work is something of landscape, in orientation and in content, but it also becomes a room or enclosed environment. I think it is kind of funny that since this is the first landscape orientation I have painted on in awhile (My last few have been vertical), that I decided a land formation needed to be in the foreground (Conditioning!?!?). Nicole probably was getting annoyed because I kept saying, "Oh look, how funny, that dead fish head is a rising sun," but I thought it was kind of interesting.  Sometimes weird moments like that inspire titles for me, so I think I may call this piece, "Land of the Rising Fish Heads" or something to that effect; even if in the end, I decide to paint over my dead fish head.

Nicole painting in our sweet studio! :)

That's all for now. Feel free to comment! :)