Before and After

Transit (before)

Transit (after) 120x120 acrylic on canvas

Oh the dilemma.  Just looking at these two images I feel I made have made a huge error of judgement.  For whatever reason, this painting just didn't come together for me the way they usually do.  Looking back now I think that the error may have been in trying to make green the dominant colour rather than blue.  In the original that yellow is screaming while the white insisted on pushing itself forward.  In short my colours were all fighting each other and I wasn't sure which one to listen to.  I almost regret my decision not to persist with the original.  I can see now all it required was to pull that blue forward, push the yellow and green back and allow the white to be a space of quiet contemplation.

Instead I woke one morning and in hast changed white to green and green to white.  It was a decision that left me both uncertain and out of time.  On paper this was a dynamic composition, and one I laughed 'This will be easy', to which my husband replied 'Yeah, right'.  He was also horrified when he realised I was painting all the white spaces green.  'I thought that was the best painting you had done until now'.  Gee, thanks.  

Anyway, the painting was delivered to the gallery on Sunday and will await its fate in the Hedland Art Awards which are announced at the opening on August 30.  I am looking forward to seeing the exhibition and attending the judges walk through the following morning.