MindzleSpeed Painting
A question I am often asked is; "How do you start a new painting?"
This is a tough question to answer as it includes a great many questions in response. Am I working digitally? Is there an existing style or subject matter?
Depending on the style, the subject and the end format, this can vary widely. But if it is just a fun painting for me with no preconceived concept I will often start with these really quick and really rough speed paintings.
As you can see it is little more than blobs, streaks ans shapes of varying shades of gray. The idea is to allow your mind to wander and to see things in the shapes and blobs. A self induced vorshack test, without the judgment on your psyche.
This one I never moved forward with, but I still look at it and have many ideas. And that is all I need from such an exercise. It allows me to see new perspectives and often create a scene I would otherwise never have envisioned.
I have often tried to incorporate this same process into a painting where I have already been given a subject... Try looking at clouds with the thought of finding queen Elizabeth. Either every cloud has that form, or none. It is the same with this process. If you already have an idea, you will see it in every ink blob, or not at all.
So looking at this image, what do you see? Does it spark any new ideas?
This is a tough question to answer as it includes a great many questions in response. Am I working digitally? Is there an existing style or subject matter?
Depending on the style, the subject and the end format, this can vary widely. But if it is just a fun painting for me with no preconceived concept I will often start with these really quick and really rough speed paintings.
As you can see it is little more than blobs, streaks ans shapes of varying shades of gray. The idea is to allow your mind to wander and to see things in the shapes and blobs. A self induced vorshack test, without the judgment on your psyche.
This one I never moved forward with, but I still look at it and have many ideas. And that is all I need from such an exercise. It allows me to see new perspectives and often create a scene I would otherwise never have envisioned.
I have often tried to incorporate this same process into a painting where I have already been given a subject... Try looking at clouds with the thought of finding queen Elizabeth. Either every cloud has that form, or none. It is the same with this process. If you already have an idea, you will see it in every ink blob, or not at all.
So looking at this image, what do you see? Does it spark any new ideas?
