I’ve blogged about quiet and silence before, but not until recently have I painted it. It’s been percolating in the back of my mind a couple of years, actually, since my creative injury with the N365 project.
I’ve known I was moving toward abstraction in some way, but I’ve been unsure of how to go about doing it.
The best way to find out is to just jump in and try.
So here is my first attempt, back in July. It’s based on a portion of a photo I took over a year ago, and I wanted to experiment with a sort of “soft” abstraction. I suppose in a sense I may be becoming an Abstract Impressionist — something I never thought existed except in the minds of people who misunderstood Abstract Expressionism.
Haze, Brad Blackman, 2013. Oil on canvas board, 11 x 14 inches.
