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Paint Tube Hill (16 x 22 watercolor) Available
Realistic paintings are representations of three dimensional space on a two dimensional surface. This painting plays with that concept by depicting three dimensional objects like paint tubes and brushes resting on a two dimensional painting. But of course the tubes and brushes are also two dimensional representations of three dimensional space.
Pygmalion Joins the Band, (16 x 22 watercolor)
When painting Flugel and Friends, I was struck by the way in which the unfinished the flugelhorn appeared ultra three dimensional. It just wanted to hover above the paper. It took some effort playing with the shadow to get it lay down and behave itself. But I was struck by how beautiful the floating horn was.
Flugle and Friends In Progress
The experience got me to thinking about the trick of making the flat paper look three dimensional and reminded me of M.C. Escher’s various perspective games playing with this concept. So I decided to play around with the idea a little within a painting in a painting.
The process has been fun, but very meta. I painted Pygmalion Joins the Band, with the very brush depicted in the painting with palette shown, using the paints in the tubes I painted. If you paint on block pads, you may recognize the border of the pad cover peaking out from under the painting in a painting. The most challenging part of the painting turned out to be depicting paint on the plastic palette and making it look like paint on plastic rather than paint of paper. I had the most fun painting the tubes and now plotting excuses to paint them again.
