Blobs and Scratches, Blue Heron Painting # 2,537
“Watchful” 18×24, oil on gessoboard, $262 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/watchful/251227″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button]
Blue herons in my dreams. Never moving, always still.
This one started so magically. In ten minutes I had a loose sketch– thin paint that flowed across the canvas. But real paintings can’t take ten minutes. Impossible.
So I worked it and worked it with the palette knife which is blobbing and scratching, far less graceful.
I love painting both ways– flowing, streaking and also piling, scratching. But I wish sometimes I could just stop. Or learn to develop that which is loose and free without jailing it and stealing its spirit.
Denise Hopkins
August 18, 2014
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