MINIATURE TEXTURAL STUDIES
Hello fellow artists and art
appreciators, I thought that today I would share some of my thoughts, upon how
my ideas supporting my work, for this current term, had progressed and
contrasted to that of last terms.
I began my instigation into producing
work, with a dilemma, what would I be able to create, utilizing my ethos of
painting the land, which would challenge the previous. It needed to depict a
progression and ambition of something far greater, that I was expanding my
abilities and demanding a grander and more elaborate response, from the process
of painting.
I initiated some
miniature relief's, developed from canvas that I used to wipe my brushes
and excess paint upon, expanding this manipulation of the paint further,
scraping away at my painters palette, in order to gather the dried pieces of
paint, from which I could sculpt and build up the layers, textures and tones,
which began to take the shape of a very organic landscape formation, creating
these miniature studies.
This provided further inspiration for
the larger scale pieces, which embody this more organic approach, ideas of
allowing the painting to breathe, providing it the opportunity to develop, in
order to unravel the layers of the land. It's become more of an emphasis upon
the process of painting, the manipulation, to build up the variety of textures,
layers and expanding the possibilities for mark making.
The imagery of the landscape is still
evident; however, it depicts more of an emphasis upon the journey and the
process, rather than thinking about having a completed perfected outcome. In
this respect, I’ve been able to have more joy with the paint, expanding my
experimentation and not being as inhibited as I previously was.
Thank You & Enjoy
Daniel Goodchild
Email: dangrahamgood@hotmail.co.uk
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Website: www.danielgoodchild.com
