This past weekend I finished a painting for a friend of mine. It's oil and about 24 x 30. I call it Pink Rain Forest since it has several colors leaning towards the red, yellow, and brown side of the color spectrum. Only stipulation I had was creating something in Fall colors.
This painting is a step away from what abstract designs I've been doing lately, or I did last year because this is the first real painting I've done this year, the chaos of erratic motion and blurred lines. I thought the squares would be a safe and disciplined way to keep myself in the lines. I tend to get too unfocused when I paint. Granted, that's okay. But I had the concept of this painting in mind to give to a friend so I didn't want to get too crazy.
I didn't use any black in this painting, another first for me. I tend to investigate the dark colors way too much. I'm trying to move away from that. Interestingly enough, I read the other day a common aspect about the psychology of color. Yellows and oranges typically invoke happiness or warmth. Blues and greens cause serinity or solitude while black, brown, and gray give off feelings of depression, despondency. After showing this to three other friends, now all wanting me to paint something for them, I'm wondering if that's what this painting did, invoke production. Mine.
If so, that's cool. I'm hoping the practice will help me learn more and what fun to know I'll have a few of my paintings hanging up at a few other friends' homes. I'll let you know how it goes!
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