Artists Of Texas Contemporary Paintings and Art

Mantled Epoch is cut from the same paper as the previous post. I am glad I stuck with this set of abstracts, always a little worrying to rely on one's design sense, but I do love that 'angst' in my art.  I began (after I had cut the full sheet in half as with my previous painting) by turning the remaining 'demo' image upside down.  As I worked by blocking in some hefty darks, I rotated every few minutes, and kept doing that till I settled on a pleasing composition. Just by rotating the piece as I progressed, I saw so many opportunities evolve. Each rotation looked so different, and the focus became a different area of the painting.  I had a hard time, as with my previous post, to finally decide which rotation pleased me the most. Eventually it was this one. See the process of my thinking below, remember I had no reference with any of these abstracts, I just 'went with the flow' so to speak (pun intended). This piece is 13" x 19...