Small again...painting pochades

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Primed card

SMALL PAINTINGS

I decided after the Aberdeen Art Fair that I would, again, work small. I had been working on a larger size for impact at the Art Fair, but now I feel that is not really my true metier.

How small, I`m still not sure, but I guess abut A5? I will play around. 

There is something about this format, which is to do with the idea of crapping the impossibly big- a landscape- into the  portable- a postcard  size - which I find immensely appealing. 

Moreover, it`s a format that seems to belong to me, as I`ve worked so often within it.

Thus, I proceed- priming boards and getting carriers sorted, and in a week or two should have some work to show, and perhaps am prepared for Spain and Morocco, the Winter escape.

I feel strongly drawn to revisit the works of artists who set me off on my path as an artist: Odilon Redon, Hammershoi Fatin-Latour: late nineteenth century masters of the strange.

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Laguna, sun, sand, watercolours on larger papers: part 1

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Laguna, sun, sand, Watercolour on paper, A2

Laguna, sun, sand, Watercolour on paper, A2

I continue to work on A2 size paper- this is immensely satisfactory and I kick myself for not having embarked on this path earlier.  The gestural freedom is very enjoyable.

The paper I use here is Canson, 180 gsm, (pretty much a cartridge) and it isn't so expensive that I feel inhibited. It doesn't warp, as I'd feared it might.

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