I started a couple of nice square canvases last month and had another go at them yesterday and today. I've used some ten year old bathroom paint. I used it on the bathroom ceiling last Spring and it has peeled off here and there. I assumed it was some kind of damp and/or poor prep but it has cracked on the canvases too. I like the effect and am looking into crackle paint and crackling medium. In the meantime, i used oil paint and turps, and oil paint with white acrylic, and some sand.
The 'new approach' is about the feeling i have that my more outlandish ambitions have left me. This is a tremendous relief. I may exhibit again but i'm not craving awards or praise anymore; finally, all i want to do is paint, to absorb the therapeutic affects and fulfill as well as i can the mental pictures i 'receive' which make me paint in the first place.
And i am not going to bother nagging at myself about sphere repetition anymore, either. I like circles and ellipses. Magical geometry.
