Tuesday, October 09, 2007

A Serendipitous Piece of Work


I've been so busy promoting my "PiCassieO" work (www.airedale-art.blogspot.com ) that my "real" art has sort of fallen by the way. Actually, it's all my "real" art - just different ways of expressing it.
The title of the above work (20" x 16", acrylic on canvas) is It Started Out As A Fish. The composition was horizontal at first, and was part of my Betta Series. Nothing I did would make it work as an abstract of a fish, so I finally decided to just play with it and see where it led. What you see is what I got - my first (that I can remember) non-representational work. It became vertical, and the black forms grew out of the existing shadows. I like the colors and the title makes me laugh; guess I found something I wasn't looking for while trying to be "serious".