Project Photo Gallery: Abstracted Grids

An email from a friend reminded me I hadn’t done the photo gallery for May’s painting project yet (nor June’s newsletter). Apologies for keeping you waiting; June has rather slipped away from me, but pulling this photo gallery together this morning has reminded me of how much fun there is to be had with grids. So without further ado, here they are for you to enjoy:

By Bee: “windows on my work room. Fun with a fountain pen.”
From Marion: ” Each is intriguing by itself, and then together create a story, a sense of location.”
ByEddie: “This is a tour around my studio with a pencil. Good luck with recognising anything here.”

From Marion: My first thought was “I bet I can recognise things” and sure, there are a few, brushes for instance, a mannekin and clock. Possibly a tape dispenser. And a boat, but is it a model or a painting if a boat? It becomes absorbing, unpicking a puzzle and finding the strands of the story.
By Eddie: “Cutting up failed paintings is a fun way to use them.”
By Eddie: “I liked the cut up technique interesting but found the small size a bit limiting. This an abstract which I tore up to use the back of the paper. A bit of cutting and rearranging was fun.”

From Marion: It’s intriguing how a cut-up piece takes on a new life and becomes more than it was before. The tidier side of my personality keeps wanting to nudge the ones that are just a little out of alignment, though I realise this would make the composition more rigid and it’ll feel different.
By Eddie: “I am a little concerned that this could become addictive but it’s a great use for failed watercolours.”

From Marion: “If you find yourself deliberately messing up a painting so you can do this, then you’ve become addicted! It’s like each little block is a chapter and together they create a story. Each time I allow my eyes to circle around the blocks a different one grabs my attention.
By Eddie: “If I do this again I will use larger squares (these are 2cm, pastel) as I found them pretty difficult.”
By Cathi: As usual the “must look like what it is” side of me won over. I have ended up with lots of little quick sketch ideas of my garden. 2” squares giving an A2 finished size.
By Cathi, watercolour on A3: “This is a more abstract version of the previous one. Spot the bluebells.”
By Cathi, pastel

May’s project led me in several directions:

This was created looking at a bunch of roses in a yellow jug. The closer-up details that are more abstracted and intriguing work better for me, but I also like the blocks that combine line and colour (second row, second from the right).
See Blocks of Abstraction: Two Cut-Ups
It becomes quite mesmerising shifting little sections of a failed painting around as it transforms into something new
This is my favourite from the various pieces May’s project led me to doing. See A Dozen Daisies

The details of June’s painting project (bluebells) can be found here. And a reminder that if you’d like to help with your project paintings, the way to do this is to become a project subscriber via Patreon (now with £, $ and Euro options; I use Patreon because the site deals with the VAT paperwork for me).

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