The Othersidelings II - (From random scribbled doodles to painting)

Hello Hive :)

Coming back today with another yet-to-be-finished long run work :)
This time it's a mix of drawing, painting and collage experiments, over a cardboard canvas.

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This is the kind of project I like to spend time at :
  • Not only by actively working on it
  • but also by passively watching, and letting it tell me what it would want next.

Even if it's not a very large piece, it won't be finished any soon, I'm sure :)


Starting Context...

As I mentioned it in a previous post, although I haven't been very active these last months, I still had short creativity bursts from time to time. The kind of need to create that had to be exploited quickly or otherwise to be forgotten forever.

And that's where scribble art shows its power.

There's something highly satisfying when getting some structured forms that emerge from random raging and nervous scribbling, whithout any conscious commander sitting in the upper control room.


Scribbling...

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Assembling...

Then, came quieter times, when all these scribbled paper sheets suddenly became potential matter to be exploited in an undefined "something else":

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Despite any affective bounds I had with these weird things, I decided that they could be used for experimentions, sending them heartlessly to destruction.

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During the process, some of them were slowly absorbed into the background by layers of light-oak-tinted glaze and painting, other ones simply vanished behind new sheets that joined the party afterwards.

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Some of the older ones struggled hard, trying to stay visible through the surface.

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And they helped building the whole structure, by guiding overal movement and local textures, while telling to newcomers where should be their place.

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Polishing...

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(Sorry for the photo's quality : with today's crappy lighting conditions, I couldn't get both the textures and the painting details as neat as I wanted.)

This is the lattest step, but not the last.

Considering that I didn't really know what I was doing, nor what I wanted to get, I'm pretty happy to see this painting's evolution overtime. I think I'll add a few more elements to it, and for sure keep experimenting glaze and layers work.

This painting made me learn a lot about collage and overall layout structuring, while at the opposite side, the scribbling technique offered some real creative freedom and spontaneity.

I like this balanced aspect of the work, and the organic way it follows, which makes it rich in unpredictable possibilities :)


End...

Many thanks for the time spend at reading and watching this !

See you, Hive people, and have a great day !

Berien.

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