Chameleon

At a weekly Toast- masters meeting, I painted a live, action per- formance painting and gave a pre- sentation along with it.  Because there was so much audience interaction, I was unable to finish.  I started with a white canvas, 36x36 on which I drew some haphazard lines with charcoal.  I concluded with the painting you see here.

I felt the painting was unfinished and I was unsatisfied with it.  I therefore brought it to my home studio and proceeded to lighten it.  If you look closely you may be able to see the charcoal lines beneath the paint.  I tried to preserve some of the elements of the painting.  See the blue on the left and the yellow shape on the right.

I further lightened the painting by scraping and wiping and using several techniques.  Note the blue on the left and the yellow shape on the right.  Finally, as you'll see in the next image, I had to give them up.

I had scraped back quite a bit of paint which was a dark brown due to all the pigments mixed together.  I then used this brown to highlight some of the charcoal lines underneath the paint.  I then painted within the confines of these lines.

Tada!  The finished painting became a chameleon as it went through several changes.  Note that I used scraping, dripping, and texturing to create....


Chameleon, Oil, 36x36.

Watch for the video to follow sometime next week.

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