Work Diary : Project The DFV opens like a Lotus Flower in March
Finished
Day 21
Date January 5, 2013
Day 23. DONE….. or at least mostly done 95%. This is where I walk away from a painting for a few weeks. I can only really evaluate the finally changes that need to be made after seeing a piece with a clearer vision.
Perhaps it is easier to see a painting without feeling every part of it is too precious too alter after a change in focus. At this point I just need to repaint the blacks and the white positive/negative spaces if nothing else requires attention.
Hopefully a new canvas worth material will be ready in a couple days.
Day 20
Date January 5, 2013
Day 22. The end draw near. Im working just as hard compiling images and info for the next painting in the series. As the white space in the middle finally gets attention there is a dramatic change in movement and color intensity.
Day 19
Date January 5, 2013
Image Only
Day 18
Date January 5, 2013
Day 20. I’m really behind on the daily posts. Almost done with this piece. Working title is: #1 DFV from Kiwi to Eagle
Day 17
Date January 5, 2013
Day 19: Feels like completion is coming into view. I am so glad that I added a Windmill Easel attachment to my cumbersome 2 mast easel. I can work so much quicker with the ability to rotate the painting 360 while still stationary. www.http://windmilleasel.com/
Day 16
Date January 5, 2013
Day 18: Left hand corners are finally getting some attention. Makes it feel a little more rounded in appearance.
Day 15
Date January 5, 2013
Day 17: Starting to repaint some areas to ensure color movement works as well as I intended.
Day 14
Date January 5, 2013
Day 16. Outer edges are the most significant changes currently. Next few days should bring more visible changes.
Day 13
Date January 5, 2013
Day 15. Minutiae is becoming overwhelming, changes are much harder to describe.
Day 12
Date January 5, 2013
Day 14 into this work. I had hoped to be done by now, but I am working much faster than normal.
Day 11
Date January 5, 2013
Lots of change here. The edge areas are starting to take some form with a couple deleted areas. My intention was to have to have the blue be quite a bit more dominant, but the reds are just so strong. Not sure if I am going to let the reds have their head or reign things in with some deletion and repaints.
Day 10
Date January 5, 2013
Not much to add at this stage. Little change showing for a lot of work. I am finding it how annoying dealing with the color shift from taking pix at widely varying schedules.
Day 09
Date January 5, 2013
Couple of days behind in updates. Starting to become much more aware of the color movement . Deviations in color have less overall impact on the whole.
Day 08
Date January 5, 2013
Slow but steady progress. Much faster than most of my work. new studio methodologies have increased the speed at which I can work. Compared to many previous pieces that took months to complete, this should be finished in approx 2 weeks. Time is speeding by.
Day 07
Date December 11, 2013
Apparent change slows down as complexity increases. I am at image eight and it is getting much harder to tell difference day to day.
Day 06
Date January 5, 2013
Color deviation is heading towards less primary tones at the moment. Complexity of the middle and tones of the middle are reminiscent of my previous work “Dread – Not little Girl”
Day 05
Date December 30, 2012
Starting to work on the morass of the middle section. Many of my pieces have a tendency toward overcomplicated sections. Much of it has to do with refusing to edit the original images as much as I original intended. A certain amount of preciousness creeps into some of the images and it makes it hard to keep from over saturating the information.
Day 04
Date December 30, 2012
Additional vibrant values being added. Being consistent with my documentation and uploading is proving to be a bit more daunting than I had originally hoped. I have changed several items in my studio to help streamline the labor and it is taking some time to settle in. I also tried using a webcam instead of the DSLR that I normally use, but the focal length is not suitable. Really would have helped keep the uploads more consistent.
Day 03
Date December 30, 2012
Splash of color being added for a sense focus. The color palette is chosen partially from the individual images and from the overall subject matter. Working sporadically without creating any form of guide ahead of time often leads to revisions being required at several stages to create a harmonized image.
Multiple steps of repainting entire sections often is tedious and time wasting, but necessary when it comes to allowing a painting to grow organically. Each choice made has a distinct ripple effect on the whole. Even starting with the same set of images and palette, I would not be able to create the same painting twice. Some day I will have to try doing a Warhol like series of siblings. Although I find it hard enough to remain consistantly enthusiastic through a single painting, I cant imagine how much a would hate the subject by the time I finished 4-5 of the same.
Day 02
Date December 30, 2012
Starting to block in some dark tone. By starting dark I can mark out some sense of movement. In some ways it is like a writer with a blank page, until some paint goes done I haven’t really started.Step2
Day 01
Date December 30, 2012
Start of painting no1 of the “Corporation Motivation” series begins with the base sketch. This is the first of 13 images that will need to be projected and sketched onto the prepared base. Each image is selectively drawn with an eye towards balancing the information needed and the aesthetic movement that each adds to the whole.
Diary start. Reconstituted
Date December30, 2012
This is the second time I have created this diary. Hopefully this time I will have the clairvoyance to export a copy before my server host decides to erase all my files. I am sure this sounds very childish and a bit petulant, but I am still very irritated at the need to redo work.
Im starting a new series of Paintings tonight. After a couple weeks of research gathering, the musing becomes tactile. Four specific pieces are intended with the possibility of two additional. Subject matter is superficially concerning corporate branding and its inclusion in retrospective sports fantasies of youth. All pieces will be a somewhat more living space friendly 48″X48″ instead of my standard 6ft and 11ft. For the first time I will be documenting the process online. Each stage will be documented except showing the specific images included in each painting. Images and text will be posted here and at my main website(http://www.donaldwrissler.com/) and at my Saatchi online account(http://www.saatchionline.com/DonaldWRissler).