Tuesday, December 21, 2010

About one Year Ago...











Davide set me up in a painting studio. It was far enough away from our apartment that I felt stuck there. This was the point: no distractions, just me battling myself through paintings for 8-12 hours a day. The goal was to learn color, light, shapes, and really grow technically. I started with a concept of painting girls paired with unsettling dolls, using colors I wouldn't normally gravitate towards. I used only oil paint and gradually added amounts of walnut oil. I discovered walnut oil while researching Old Masters techniques. Walnut oil won't yellow whites over time, and it's more fluid than linseed oil. I fell in love with it, and the completed paintings have a phenomenal and uniform texture and glow. However, this process takes a long time, because each layer of paint takes a week or longer to dry. So, it took months to work on these paintings, and though I had many more paintings sketched out with more provocative content, I grew bored...not of the learning process and what I learned, which was alot, but with the final product. While in my opinion they are beautiful and more realistic than anything else I'd painted to date, they were just not haunting enough, not unsettling enough..just not where I wanted to land. And, a habit of mine is to learn as much as possible as fast as possible..and once I feel I've learned the lesson and conquered the battle, I move on. Thus, these paintings were left unfinished as my passion took me onward.

2 comments:

Mrs.DrAculA's said...

oh karyn me encanta tu trabajo!!! tenia tantas ganas de saber de ti, y me apareces no esto que no es menor, digo, es genial!!!!, I used to listen you ...always ...you know... your music, I hope you have a great year with david, kisses karyn!!

SIMONE1974 said...

naaaahhhhh I can't believe what my eyes are scanning....it's all so incredible...you grow up your technique so much! I definitively love all that!!!