Alexandra Castelli
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back burner not so much

1/15/2010

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So, I thought the issue with gesture was going to be kept on the back burner for a while, but here it is again, cropping up of its own accord, just a few days later, forcing me to deal with it.

There was an old swimmer photo, so old and so bad that I can't even tell if it is Jackson or Harris, but I have been keeping it on my desktop, fiddling with it, opening it up and staring at it from time to time, so I finally just attacked a canvas.  It seemed so detached from the Veronicas, that at first I just sketched it on the plastic wrapper of the canvas, without even bothering to unwrap, so sure was I that I would get over it once I saw the composition, but still I liked it.  I laid a ground, a sort of pinkish gesso, applied with a spatula (another unfamiliar process) and I let it dry.  Then I redrew the outline with conte pencils, just a few lines.

I picked up my biggest fattest brush (which I never do), mixed three shades of blue/turquoise/black/white in a plastic plate (another anomaly) and started laying big fat drippy stripes of paint on the surface.  The interesting thing about when I work like this is that I will either end up loving or hating the result...it's never just sort of ok.  I blocked in the boy, the tiles, the big splash and all those big fat sloppy blues...clearly I still have plenty to do, but I am liking the ease of this.
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Oh Veronica

1/11/2010

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ok the experiment of the other day did not work out, separating the gesture from that which it describes, or at least, it has been set to a burner which is WAY in the back.  And there were a couple of other experiments outside of the usual realm, spawned more than likely by the ennui of the holidays...I'll post them as they come to completion.
But today I finally went back to work on Veronica .. Veronica of the floating hair, Veronica of the lighting across her chest, x marks the spot, right across the heart.
She peers at me tentatively through strands of hair, with her full lips and adolescent forms, a slight green yellow tinge to her asian skin...I just love this image.  I plan to just finish the bathing suit and fill in a bit more of the flesh, but then stop and wait for it all to dry before launching into a major glazing fest!!!  Looking forward.
ok, back to work before the boys get home...

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