quadraptych (?)

[devi]

I have a day off today. It's glorious. So:





This is what I've been up to the last couple of weeks. I've been wanting to paint something for ages, but could never settle on what. Then one night I sat down with one of a set of four canvases (cheap from The Works. If they'd been expensive canvases I'd never have picked up the brush) and told myself I was just experimenting with using paint and mixing colours. I deliberately didn't have a goal in mind, I just gave the brush its head and waited to see what happened, and the whole thing was such fun that I went on and did three more.

On the downside, my laptop now has tiny speckles of black paint on it due to overenthusiastic brush-flicking. I feel like Brian from Spaced. "I paint... fear! Aggression! Pain!"

Capital One spammed me today. "You could have this [spectacularly awful] credit card in your wallet! Look, we know you're an idiot - you must be if you're considering applying - so to choose which design you want, all you have to do is peel off one of these little credit-card-shaped stickers and stick it on the application form! You can have a piggy, a monkey, a puppy, a tigger or an England flag!" I threw the rest in the bin but kept the stickers. I might send them out with the next Wasted Epiphanies as an Ironic Comment on the Debt Culture, innit.

Comments

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Cheers. It's interesting how people mostly like the top two, as the brown was my first uncertain attempt and the blue/grey was me getting possibly overconfident, trying to mix colours and ending up with something smudgier than the rest.

How's the typography work marathon going?

[taimatsu]

It's bloody hard to draw loaves of bread. That's about where I'm at at the moment. Tetrapaks of milk are easier, though. (I am producing a leaflet explaining how to make breakfast.)

[taimatsu]

I think one of the things I like about the top two is that they have a consistency of line-thickness that the bottom two don't have, and so they let you focus more on the colours and patterns.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Hmm, yes, I can see that.

Maybe it's more two pairs of paintings than a quadraptych...