Saturday, January 29, 2011

THERE IS ALWAYS GESSO



After a few discussions of this painting with my friend in Maine, I felt this needed more work. With graphite and another small painting on paper I played with ideas as the above seemed too repetitious of the rectangle shape.


The idea, however, did not get executed as planned and gesso was the solution.




Though there is something interesting going on under the surface.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Martha, I agree, you have something exciting trying to reveal itself under the gesso. I liked what you had before, but this is getting more exciting!

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  2. I really love how it turned out. The transparency and minimalism is effective and subtle. Beautiful work.

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