Painting, drawing, films, stories, travel and other odds and ends
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A little drive further south- to Gravatai, near Porto Alegre. There are fine rocks in Torres. I will try to stay there and paint.
Perhaps I will stop in Imbituba too.
Recently, I`ve been bored. I`m always doing the same things, but I can`t think of more enjoyable or better things to do, or new ways to do what I like but am bored of.
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Urussanga
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Urussanga is one of those well-maintained interior towns that you don't hear much about. It's got some lovely old (for Brazil) architecture and feels very safe. It's friendly.
The day became overcast. I like empty urban spaces and I like a certain dream-style city art- as in Sironi and the city paintings of Whistler.
Hence:
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Getting out of Florianopolis was very good for me, and I'll try to do some other road trips in the next months - it's so costly at the moment to fly anywhere that this is the best way to give me the change of scene that I need for inspiration.
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Laguna
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Laguna was beautiful, empty of tourists and full of silent charm. The way the town perches between lake and sea and hills is wonderful.
I will certainly return.
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Attempting to work much more quickly
My logic is this: that the paintings are "worked out" within the first fifteen minurtes, after which there is a period essentially of filling in which takes up to thirty minutes.
From experience, I can say that almost nothing I do after these forty-five minutes will make much difference- except perhaps to weary the picture by overworking it. That means the colours becoming increasingly grey or brown or just dirty, and brushstrokes losing their sharpness as marks are "corrected".
In addition, the longer I work the greater the possibility that the scene will change, usually because of the sun moving.
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A little drive south
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All being well, on Monday I go down to Laguna, a charming town with nice old buildings, and then on to Urussanga. I suppose I spend four nights away. I'm going to book hotels on the way.
I now have a little laptop, and the idea is that I continue teaching as necessary online and get to go painting in new places. I haven't done this before though I should have.
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Painting has been quite difficult lately, I think partly because of overfamiliarity with certain motifs. You get dulled by ease and familiarity.
Hence, travel.
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The sun came and went making it hard to settle on an approach.
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The paintings are growing steadily larger and this means that colour effects- whether harmonious or otherwise- become more obvious. It makes me think my colour is very brash. But perhaps I am simply over-sensitive? At what point does bright become brash?
I love the freedom of movement that a larger format gives, especially with scumbling and other brush marks.
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This camera, a Lumix DMC-1X7 is not good at registering certain contrasting colours. There's a peach colour in the picture that is not effectively shown here.
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