A little faith helps….
This is the third session for this little piece so it is making less sense rather than more at this point. Casein is a very weird medium, if you ask me. Moving the paint around takes practice and a certain touch that is easier on some days. A lot of the drawing details and shadows aren’t added yet - I’m trying to build form on the two grain silos (or whatever these amazing, huge cylinders are). As I paint from the dark side to the light….or the other way around….it is difficult to keep the change gradual. There is no “flow” with casein even though it is a waterbased medium - like with watercolor, for instance.
And to work in a watermedia but opaquely is odd to me, probably because I was a watercolorist for so many years and am more comfortable dealing with transparent color.
So we’ll see where this one goes. The middle development of a painting reminds me of the teenage years — I’m pretty sure where I’m going but I could fall off a cliff at any minute. I’m either exuberant or depressed right until the piece starts to click and I’m able to be more objective.
I’m never truly objective but it’s always the goal.
