A large colourful painting packed full of life and energy
And will be utterly perfect for a kitchen or living space or somewhere you need a splash of colour and a reminder that being on this earth is an absolute blessing.
And will be utterly perfect for a kitchen or living space or somewhere you need a splash of colour and a reminder that being on this earth is an absolute blessing.
Crystal Waters is one of those paintings that gives me very good reason to smile. I’m not sure if it’s the shapes, the colours or indeed because it’s a fairly large sized piece of art. Perhaps it could be a combination of all three? Whatever the reason I had a blast painting it and an even better time now I can sit and stare at it.
Painting it has been a real hoot. Look, I am addicted to colour and being able to use almost all of them at the same time fills me with extraordinary happiness. It’s funny because as you get going you can see things slowly beginning to evolve and take shape. Very often it’s the darker tones that get applied first as this lays down the foundations for the brighter colours later on.
With any large colourful painting it’s very easy to overdo it. Too much red here or not enough blue there – it all has an impact on what happens next. So to get these crazy multi coloured paintings to sing and dance requires a very questioning mind as it’s painted. I sometimes struggle with dark colours; I am always using too much and then having to dig my way out. But in Crystal Waters that was never an issue because I only used a very small amount of black and grey – and they were used right at the beginning.
There are some extraordinary details in this painting. One of the new techniques I finally got to grips with is one using tiny droplets of paint, applied in a line, and then using a suede brush to drag them into the space I want to fill. Neat right? Who’d have thought that finding an old suede brush would yield such results? This is just one of the new tools I used in this large colourful artwork.
In other places you can see candy cane swirls and cloud-like forms. It really does go on and on and even after having let this settle for a good few weeks I am still picking out tiny things I hadn’t previously noticed.
From a colour perspective then anywhere to be honest. If you are looking to own an abstract but don’t really know where to begin then choose something with loads of colour in it. This means you can choose to accent any one of them in the space where you intend to hang it. So if you’re a fan of purple let’s say, then pick out the purples then accent with pink, lime-green and silver. It’s all relatively easy – just trust your gut feelings about what works and what doesn’t.
This is one reason why I like multi-coloured art – it has this ability to lift you but also to carry you. It can fit in almost anywhere and it will never disappoint you. It can turn and neutral space into the vibrant beating heart of a home and it can energise and stimulate all of your senses at once.