Human Art

This is a painting I did a while back. I wanted to try a new approach than my normal workflow. I normally start with a line drawing. Not a precise one, but just a quick block in. At this point that sort of feels safe to me. I know where I'm going early on and things build up in a very structured way. What I'd been finding though was that I wanted to play more with the ratio of abstraction to the representational elements, and I think it works better if the whole thing starts pretty abstract then I bring some areas in to focus while leaving the others not so much. So this painting was an exercise in that.

So this is still a drawing, just not a line drawing. It's a bit of a different way of thinking to draw with shape masses vs drawing with lines. Lines are my comfort zone.

And that about did it. I'll try to get back into posting. See you all in the next one.