Backstory: I love making plans (probably one reason I find plein air painting difficult: it demands immediate decisions and execution). Whatever it is I enjoy the process of imagining, sketching, laying out and trying different ideas. Doesn't matter if it is a vacation or a painting, I tend to lean towards the same routine.
More backstory: My painting group has a show this summer at the King Center for the Performing Arts themed "Black and White and Read All Over." I've done a few pieces for it but my favorite idea was to be about the demise of the newspaper (the answer to the riddle) and rename it "Black & White and Dead All Over." I wanted to use the black and white of papers and a representation of the press from long ago contrasted with today. My work is at a standstill and this is where we planners experience a slow agony interspersed with panic attacks. Things are not coming along as my plans visualized. Gulp.
I share this because I get the impression that some people think painting is all fun and relaxing...and many times it is. But this junction is not fun....I have to stare at this until a brilliant idea (I'd settle for an average idea at the moment) comes my way and I can finish this up...in two weeks or less!!
P.S. While doing my research on newspapers I discovered that my "clever" name has been used several times. A documentary has been released on the subject that you can read about here.
If the American newspaper dies, how will we keep paint drips off the floors? And how will we ever line the bottom of a birdcage???
ReplyDeleteThe paint drips are of concern, dare not place the iPad down to do it...you've raised quite the issue here, Kirk!
ReplyDeleteI like the piece, Cindy. I think you need just a little piece of interest in the foreground, maybe even a shadow coming up from the bottom to break it up a little. :-)
ReplyDeleteJust get some medium and a dark color and "antique" the bottom and corners to give it depth and draw the eye up.
ReplyDeleteI like it too and know you planned to finish the bottom as Carol suggests. Love the name even though it's been done before. It happens frequently in book titles too. Apparently there is nothing new under the sun (hey, that's been used before too!)
ReplyDeleteYou said you wanted to contrast the way we got news in the past with the way we do today == maybe your newspaper boy should be holding an iPad or a smartphone of somehow reference his Twitter account. I love the use of the mastheads as the skyline and the newspapers as the ground; particularly the "Newspaper Death Watch" headline.
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