Weekly Reflection

Over the past two weeks I have accomplished several elements of my painting. First, I decided to take a break from working on the first panel - it felt like I was painting over most of what I had done and making no progress. I then began to paint the second panel - deciding on the colors for the background was initially challenging. I could not decide whether to have the trasition slowly fade into darker tones or to have an immediate but logical transition into deep reds, purples, and blues. I chose the "immediate transition". I have started to make the connection between the two canvas - continuing the cloud etc. I have also began to create some of the figures/images on the darker panel. I want to the sky to turn from bright, happy, colorful and simple to dark, abstract and supernatural. I have a wale swimming through the sky, along with a leopard climbing out of the clouds. The sky ultimately turns from stars to geometric shapes with help from the waves of the ocean turning into square waves, then squares then little dots. I have repeated the use of tiny dots throughout the painting. I think it gives it a "magical" quality. To me, it looks like fairydust or sprinkles which just scream magical and fantastic - which I'm truly going for. In the next week I want to completely finish the first panel and leave it forever, and work on making the second as detailed as the first. Hopefully I will finish the entire painting sometime next week and be able to start another piece for the show. I would like to make a portrait - something realistic to show some range from my abstract - 2D painting.