August 30, 2007 Day 133
Exasperated by my art rut, I toook a different approach to drawing today. Using a plastic template, I covered the paper with circles in colors from yellow to deep purple. Then, using a ruler, I created a pattern with lines, again in a variety of colors. I told myself I would be happy with a pleasing design and nothing else. The final step was filling in some of the spaces with color for emphasis.
Drawing #135 11" x 14"
And finally, I got back to painting again. I tackled canvas #19 first, adding a burnt orange and red, taking away some of the yellow and green, then adding more yellow back in, ending up drawing brown lines on the wet surface.
Canvas #19 36" x 36"
I had made two horrible backgrounds that included puke green and pink, so I tackled one of them today with strong yellow, red, and orange. Brown lines helped break up the surface, so that it is now something I might want to work on again.
Canvas #21 36" x 36"
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