Non Objective

Still out here pushing around paint with these non objective pieces. It's quite strange to me to see this as my work 🤔 You see the whole time I was completing my fine art degree (which goes back awhile by now of course) and painting oil on canvas I never made a surface like this. I always painted representationally and would not have been able to arrive at this surface traditionally. 

Digitally, I wonder if it is the speed of building up the marks that just makes it all feel so much more achievable for me? If I am bored I keep carving shapes and if it is muddy or unpleasing to me I just push it all back to unity and go further from there. Additionally, the ability to parse apart the black and white from the color is magnificent. I created this about 60% there in black and white before I added color. And when I add color by blending layers over top I feel like a mad scientist, for real though. Other people's paintings? Sure. My old paintings? Definitely. Photos that I filter? Throw it in. And then I paint over top just as I would normally, but all this other stufff helps me create ideas, I guess. 

And I've realized I really do love this process it's spontaneous and very forgiving, experimental and completely inconsequential when it bores me, but for the first time in awhile I really wish this was about 60in wide stretched oil on canvas. 

Any thoughts on how it has parts that are blurry and they sit on top and almost hover above the sharper bits underneath? When I zoom in to 100% I like it and am curious about how it will print. I could see this as an endpaper for my picture book and as an approach to texture for some illustrations. That's what I might ask about IRL if anyone would like to comment.