Huge Pink Abstract Painting - Pink

Pink

30x36 inches, acrylic on canvas

This huge pink abstract painting evolved from an idea, that once I got started, turned a very sharp left.  The pink part was only supposed to be an underpainting, to be seen in bits a pieces, through a layer of dark purple.  But once I got started I just couldn't stop.

What I absolutely love about painting is the subtle colour variations you get by adding just a tiny bit of colour to an already existing colour.  I know we all mixed red and blue in kindergarten or grade one and were astonished to get the colour purple.  (Actually the girl next to me did it and I was perplexed and jealous of her because it didn't seem to work for me.)  But the range of colour that exists, just waiting to happen, by adding a bit of red, or yellow, or white, even blue, really turns my crank.  I'm not sure why.  I just love it, like a songstress hitting a note she loves to sing.

So, needless to say, I became quite mesmerized by all these subtle shades and couldn't and didn't stop until this painting was complete, not purple like I had planned, but PINK.  

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Abstract Ocean Painting (Seascape) - The Red Sea

The Red Sea

12x24 inches, acrylic on canvas

This abstract ocean painting (seascape), The Red Sea, was one of those paintings that just came out of nowhere.  Sometimes I get an idea for a composition and if I have a canvas in the right size already prepped, there is little time for hesitation.  I just grab it and go.

Sometimes I find the most interesting works of art manifests in this way.  

I have been very drawn to passionate colours of late, hot pinks and oranges, fuschias and dark purples.  So those are the colours that find their way onto my palette and onto canvas.  It's irrelevant to me that the sea is a lovely bright magenta.  Any true expressionist would say, 'This is how I felt when I was painting.'  An interesting concept.  I didn't exactly feel magenta.  But it does make an interesting colour sea.

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