Red Door Gerace (18 x 20" mixed media on canvas)I'm very happy to report that I've finally started my long-intended Calabrian-themed series of mixed media paintings. I made photo-transfers on muslin from pictures I took in southern Italy and incorporated them with fabric compostitions that I had sewn over the course of this past winter. I glued them to canvas, thus establishing the composition and suggesting the hues that I'd be using in the painting. This is a brand new technique for me and it is both terrifying and exhilarating.
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I was so excited to get going on this project that I forgot to take digitals of where it started and how it progressed. I'll post the process of other paintings in this series in future blogs.
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The original photograph started with a green door but I kept wanting to put red in the painting so finally gave in to that impulse and, thus, the whole tone was set.
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gorgeous work! it definitely has an italian feel to it. love the colors!
ReplyDeleteMolto bono,Lynne -- am looking forward to the rest of them.
ReplyDeleteI love red doors - it's wonderful!
ReplyDeleteIf we had a bottle of bubbly I would toast to you! Complements always work well together so you red/green combination is perfect!
ReplyDeleteHi Lynne! Questa arte e bella! I confess that I had to do some homework and look up Gerace. There it was in the heart of Calabria, and high up on a mountain overlooking the sea was the Cathedral of Gerace with just those hues of pink and red! The meshing even adds the look of stonework. The mixed media makes it look so rich. I just love this work! Buona fortuna! xx
ReplyDeleteHi Leah, So happy to hear you say it has an Italian feeling. That's what I'm after!
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, Mille grazie! Do stay tuned...
ReplyDeleteSusan, Thank you for using the adjective "wonderful" in reference to a work of mine! I love red doors, too, but haven't managed as yet to have one on my home. Very good feng shui, a red door.
ReplyDeletePatricia, Ah, a bottle of bubbly! Wouldn't that be fine. We could have a little studio party...but I fear not much work would get done. We'll have to make up for lost time at the vernissage. ;-}
ReplyDeleteBuongiorno, Margharetta! I'm so happy you found your way over the mountain pass from Décolleté to Ragzedge. Gerace is, indeed, high up in the mountains with gorgeous views of the valley below. There was no on about the day we were there. It was all very orderly but seemingly deserted. Misterioso!
ReplyDeleteThe colors are WONDERFUL :)
ReplyDeleteAmazing piece of art !!
hugs to Tasha
from
Kareltje =^.^=
Thanks Anya! Tasha is considering the hug from Kareltje...so far no hissing...
ReplyDeleteHi L., for some reason couldn't comment on Décolleté; so took the mountain path over the continental divide, and ended up here... and what a fine place it is... although I see you're already into the champagne here... ! Looking forward to seeing more, and the time lapse series as they are created... only thing missing is a ... lobster. ;-D
ReplyDeleteOh that's just beautiful, I love it! I have a red bedroom (not too much akin to a Bordello however) and obviously I love red having got married in it as well!! Talented darling that you are. And I'll drink to that too.
ReplyDeleteGood on ya, Owen! Glad to see that you put on your hiking boots, grabbed your wineskin, and made it to the far-flung reaches of Ragzedge in spite of your gruelling back-to-the-grind past couple of days. Here's a jar of nicely chilled bubbly for you (sorry, I'm all out of glasses!)
ReplyDeleteI turned off the comments option over at Décolleté for this once to LURE people who wanted to say something to me into visiting me in my studio. (insert wicked, if not maniacal, chuckle here).
Lobster will likely be served Saturday night, though not in the studio. I hate it when people get buttery fingerprints and garlicky drool all over my art work.
Cheers!
Hi Saj! Married in red??!! How wonderful is that! I wish you'd post a wedding pic on your blog! And a red bedroom--hot stuff. Any pom-pom fringes and leopard skin prints for accents? Or are those just on your negligées?
ReplyDeleteOh heavens, I had such good intentions of keeping things professional and culturally relevant on Ragzedge. Never mind, you know what they say about artists.
Don't drink out of that bottle, Saj! It's not Retsina--it's turpentine. Honest mistake. Have a plastic container of bubbly instead. I gave Owen the last jar, but the champagne's still cold.
Cin cin!
Oh that Saj ! Married in red, doing photos in the red-light district of CC, a red bedroom, a taste for red art... must have a red heart, even a red shirt in her blog profile picture, and now she's drinking the red-stained turpentine... well that should put a nice red glow in her cheeks ! (on her face I meant !)
ReplyDeleteMany thanks for the champagne even if no glasses to go with it..., will have to go back by the hut on Blogland Lane to pick up some glasses for you. Jeez, Blogland Lane, I'm feeling so GUILTY about that, haven't posted yet to the new BL blog, just haven't had time, hope my neighbors over there won't petition to have my citizenship revoked over there...
So, hey, it's Friday evening here in France (and I'm at work), hope you have a fantastic weekend, and keep an eye on that Saj, don't let her out of your sight, or she'll be breaking into your cellar next...
Poor O, having to work Friday night. We'll drink extra to make up for it! I'm sure Saj will help.
ReplyDeleteBlogland Lane...yes, have been thinking about selling my house there. Flip it for quick profit...then go claim a turret of your humble abode...or pitch a yurt somewhere on your vast acreage...
Bon fin de semaine, whenever you get it!
I think there may be a wedding pic somewhere on my blog...TURPENTINE? Sure tasted like retsina to me...and you've given Owen the good glassware, hm?
ReplyDeleteSorry Saj, O got here first. Why don't you just take the whole bottle?
ReplyDeleteWill have to sift through your blog for wedding pix...(!) I wonder what else I'll discover?...
I like how you "see" and look forward to seeing more of your series.
ReplyDeleteBev