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

[mollydot.livejournal.com]

I love them all. My favourite is changing from second to second though. Actually, I can't seem to get it down to one for very long at all. Sometimes it's the bottom two, sometimes it's the right two. I prefer the colours in the bottom two, the shapes in the top two. But the colour isn't as strong in the top left as in the others, so it never makes it into the favourite, though I do like it a lot. And you'd think that being in both my favourite pairs would make the blue and green one my favourite, but when I try to concentrate on that one, my eye gets drawn to the top by the shapes of the brown one, or to the left by the colour of the red one.
OTOH, I think if I was to have one on my walls, I'd go for one of the top two. The more complex shapes give you something to look at for a long time.
Hmm... interesting. I've just looked at the bigger graphic in your gallery, and my eye is being drawn more to the top two.
Ah, I don't have to pick favourite. As I said at the beginning, I love them all!

I tried the experimenting with mixing colours once, but it didn't come out half as good as yours. I did another one too, that I don't appear to have scanned in. It was much more insipid.