synaesthetic culture

[helenic]

Stef and I started this painting on Sunday night. It was late; we were both tired after a long weekend, and we weren't trying to do anything ambitious. It's not finished yet - we want to add more fine detail - but the overall shape is probably not going to change too much. The working title is an in-joke - I don't know if it'll stick :)

Synaesthetic Culture
approx 15x15", acrylic and glass paint on board

Btw, promiseclean: is this the sort of thing you were thinking of for your commission? No worries if not, just pondering options :)

Comments

[promiseclean.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's much like it, very pretty.

I was thinking reds/orange/yellow and blues, like water and fire...

[libellum.livejournal.com]

Cool :) Less green then, I can do that. Are you happy with the spirally sort of abstract style? I like the idea of something elemental...

[promiseclean.livejournal.com]

Spirals would be great, like them very muchly (lots of my jewellery is spirally, lots of stars, too).

I've thought about the elements, although earth and wind/air don't appeal to me as much as water and fire.

[libellum.livejournal.com]

Cool, so something spirally based on the elements of water and fire. I have an image in my head ...

Do you like big bold areas of colour or the kind of decorative detail in the above painting? Or a combination of both? :)

[(Anonymous)]

Probably more decorative detail than bold areas of colour, lines in lines (think Keith Haring, but can be a bit more girlie than that).

[promiseclean.livejournal.com]

erm, accidentally logged out again...

[kelemvor.livejournal.com]

So, does that represent sound, taste, smell or touch? ;-)

[the-waves.livejournal.com]

I love this. The colours are stunning (as is the profile of the girl holding the painting! So pretty!).

:-)

[the-elyan.livejournal.com]

That's great - wonderful bursts of energy.

Funnily enough, I spent a while trying to think what it reminded me of, then I realised it was the reredos (http://www.bbc.co.uk/tees/content/articles/2007/01/18/divineart_feature.shtml) of the cathedral I went to church in as a boy. Yours is more vibrant. I always liked the reredos, though as you can imagine when you see it, it has cauysed some major ructions (incidentally, the story gives the impression it has just been installed - it's actually been there since not long after the Cathedral was dedicated in 1987).

Hope all well, and that your parents are getting on well in Belize (?)