underwater lights (wip)

[helenic]

After finishing the dragons we were slightly bored of working in monochrome, so we got out a load of paints and started messing around with colour. I didn't feel like this painting really came together in my head; I found it difficult to focus on and although occasionally a fragment of it would leap out at me and appear to be utterly exquisite, but I couldn't integrate those flashes of beauty with the whole. As with the tea dragons, we rotated the canvas every so often to try and balance it between our two styles. I think there's promise in this, but it's not there yet. While we were working on it we thought it might be the ocean, galaxies, a crowd of people dancing. For the time being I've called it Underwater Lights, but the name will probably change if we rework it.

Underwater Lights (work in progress)
Acrylic on canvas, 16" x 20"
with Stefania Bounajuti

Comments

[jezzifishie.livejournal.com]

I like it! It reminds me of an octopus :)

[libellum.livejournal.com]

There were more trails of dots earlier in the painting process, but I painted over several of them with swirls because the whole thing was getting a bit cthulhoid :) (I then had to explain Cthulhu to Stef...)

[glitzfrau.livejournal.com]

Oh, so gorgeous and such gorgeous colours!

[mr_magicfingers]

That's gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous. I love it, not just for the imagery but because of who the artists are.

I really need a (better) paying job.

x

[aiwendel.livejournal.com]

I like it. :)

[lady-illflower.livejournal.com]

It's lovely! ^_^

[anarquistador.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with cthulhoid?