The Painting of Indigo Dreaming 2
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Hello Everyone! It’s been awhile since I’ve shown up on video, or in my vlog. For those that are new subscribers, I’m David Kessler-an abstract painter and art instructor.
My last vlog entry was February of 2022, the 278th straight week of videos written and produced by me. I owe you an explanation of my absence over this nearly 2 year period. I had gotten to a point where my work was stale and it seemed I was doing the same thing in each painting, just going through the motions with no real movement forward. COVID had also come along and disrupted my travel and teaching schedule. I tried the Zoom lessons and all that, but it wasn’t the same as traveling to teach folks in person, one to one. I needed to recharge my creative spirit, and art wasn’t working for me. So I turned back to my first love, architecture.
Most of my followers remember that I am an architect by trade. I got into art from architecture and never looked back. I retired from architecture quite awhile back and taught art full time for many years. I found I needed more creativity in my life, so…I went back into architecture full time. It rechrged my creative energy, but left me with very little creative bandwidth at the end of the week to paint, film, and produce videos and vlog posts.
I’m hoping that I can get a post out once a month, but I’m not making any promises.
Now, on to this video. I love the color indigo. I decided I wanted to develop a series of painting using mostly indigo and white. The palette for this painting is very simple: Titanium White, Anthraquinone Blue, Mars Black, Light Ultramarine and Light Phthalo Blue-These are all Golden Heavy Body Acrylic colors. Anthraquinone Blue is mixed with Mars Black to create Indigo. I don’t have a certain measurement of wither, I just mix them together until the color looks right to me. The canvas is 24x48 Centurion Museum Linen Canvas with acrylic gesso.
I use a simple, direct approach to apply the paint to the canvas with large brushes. No tricks, no mediums, no lotions or potions or any of that nonsense, just straight forward application of thick paint to a gessoed canvas. I turn the canvas a few timew to check the composition and then its done. I chose some Blues music to go with the blue painting. Hope you like it. Let me know if there are comments or questions.. Thanks.
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