Arty Party 2 Paintings

This series Brushes are 12 acrylic paintings inspired by Arty Party 2 where the theme is :  This is how I work.

The paintings are a comment on my new medium (acrylics) which is messy. I am poking at painting as a joke and saying that it’s not that serious. How am I doing this? I don’t have perfect brush strokes so the painting looks rushed. Why am I doing this? Because I am new at painting and I want to enjoy it not kill my interest with laboriously executed perfect brush strokes nor infect my efforts with weak ideas.

I have chosen four words to use on some of the paintings to explain my university studio routine, namely Arrive, Work, Fun, Love It. The words are not perfectly spelt so there is some working out for the viewer to do. I am also trying to highlight my own technical imperfections in the paintings. The viewer may notice and say what is going on here. The studio concept is the point in this series, not technicalities.

 

Here is the series called Brushes 1-12 that I painted:

Artist Ruth Newell, Brushes 1, October 2019, 20 x 22.5cm, acrylics on board (2 Analogous colours : green and blue outlines on white background)

Artist Ruth Newell, Brushes 2, October 2019, 20 x 22.5cm, acrylics on board (Yellow outline and white on black background)

Artist Ruth Newell, Brushes 3, October 2019, 20 x 22.5 cm, acrylics on board (Cool colours : greens and purple on blue background)

Artist Ruth Newell, Brushes 4, October 2019, 20 x 22.5 cm, acrylics on board (Cool colours : green, blue, purple on black background)

Artist Ruth Newell, Brushes 5, October 2019, 20 x 22.5 cm, acrylics on board (Warm colours : orange and red on yellow background)

Artist Ruth Newell, Brushes 6, October 2019, 20 x 22.5 cm, acrylics on board (Warm colours : yellow and orange on red background)

Artist Ruth Newell, Brushes 7, October 2019, 20 x 22.5 cm, acrylics on board (Warm colours : red, orange, yellow on white background)

Artist Ruth Newell, Brushes 8, October 2019, 20 x 22.5 cm, acrylics on board (Complimentary colours : purples on yellow background)

Artist Ruth Newell, Brushes 9, October 2019, 20 x 22.5 cm, acrylics on board (Complimentary colours : greens on red background )

Artist Ruth Newell, Brushes 10, October 2019, 20 x 22.5 cm, acrylics on board (Complimentary colours : orange and yellow on blue background)

Artist Ruth Newell, Brushes 11, October 2019, 20 x 22.5 cm, acrylics on board (Analogous colours : yellow and greens on blue background)

Artist Ruth Newell, Brushes 12, October 2019, 20 x 22.5 cm, acrylics on board (Analogous colours : purples and blue on red background)

I enjoyed doing these paintings. I actually like them. They explain my new studio medium : painting. I want to explore colour combinations some more to see what colours dominate and  when. It’s fun.