Finished piece (with painting adjustments, isolation layers, and varnish):
This is a first large-to-me canvas painting that I've completed in Louise Fletcher's course. It is 24" x 30" and was started as a course assignment -- an open painting.
The open painting is a place for experimentation and play. Mine has gone through quite an evolution since the first rubber brush line was made. After many days of adding drips, writing, and paint to the canvas bit by bit, it changed.
At one point, I turned the strange-looking canvas upside-down. With more painting, it changed so much more until a tree shape arrived - the hint being an upside-down funnel that would became the trunk. At that point, there were two spirals on the bottom, one on each side of that trunk. One has been painted over. The remaining one has peek-a-book layers and looks like a portal to an 'other' place. Hence, its serendipitous title: Rabbit Hole under the Tree of Cups.
I may make a few tweaks, but the painting is essentially finished even though it's still on the easel. That said. the overall image to me feels like an invitation -- where the portal quietly awaits someone's entry. How does this piece read to you?
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| Earlier version of "Rabbit Hole under the Tree of Cups" |
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