May 2019 – Merete Hov ART

Posted on 31. May 201931. May 2019 by Merete Hov ART (NO 926 787 535) — Leave a comment

Monochromatic mixed media under progress

Monochromatic work under progress. Searching, exploring, trying, scraping, trying again, finding gems, covering ugly areas emphasizing nice areas. Now, these need to rest and to settle before the next steps.

Posted on 22. May 2019 by Merete Hov ART (NO 926 787 535) — Leave a comment

NEW SET OF FOUR ON THE DRAWING TABLE. Work under progress

MONOCHROMATIC PLAY STAGE: White&Black + Sanguine
Going larger for these (23X60 cm), not very large you might say, but to me these are the largest papers I’ve worked on so far in the exercise series. So, this is a new round with monochromatic. I had meant to use raw sienna for this set. But then I came over some of my new sketching crayons, including this orange which I used in the initial mark making. This colors is far away from the raw sienna so I had to do some rethinking. Of course, it turned out I didn’t have this color (it turned out to be sanguine) in oils, so I used sanding paper to make powder of the crayon before mixing this into the white.

Posted on 20. May 2019 by Merete Hov ART (NO 926 787 535) — Leave a comment

NEW WORK ON THE TABLE. Under-painting/play stage with acrylics on paper. I’ll continue this piece with cold wax and oils, by starting to search for treasures and shapes.

Oh gee, my inner child just got hold of the brand new set of acrylics, we both are as good as new to this medium but I purchased it early last fall because of this course. Tried to mix properly and nicely on a palette first, but this wasn’t exciting enough for her. At least I took charge and added a lot of white, this also right on the paper or one of the plastic tools. 😱🤭😹😲😅Hm, my eyes keep drawn to the upper right corner, even if I rally don’t like pink there is something up there which I like a lot, so strange 🤔

Posted on 17. May 2019 by Merete Hov ART (NO 926 787 535) — Leave a comment

A NEW SET OF PAINTINGS UNDER PROGRESS

After a new play stage and some drastic attacks white and light green, I now feel that these are going towards something that I really would like to continue on. Already I am finding portions that I truly love. Gosh, this time this process was far quicker and not so scary, which is a huge relief in itself. If only I don’t mess this up when I move on to clarifying, there is certainly a possibility there as well…

Posted on 11. May 2019 by Merete Hov ART (NO 926 787 535) — Leave a comment

FOUR MORE PAINTINGS ARE AS GOOD AS FINISHED

Final touches with Indian Yellow and black & white.
I wonder why it seems so much easier to paint at night, perhaps because I’m done with the day’s duties, have fed both myself and the dog (whom is now molesting a chewing bone on his bed even making it sound tasteful doing it). Or is it that everybody else are sleeping, no phone calls, no noise from the road, all is still except for the tv-set. Well, finally I feel that these four now are in their absolute final stages, it has taken a while and some layers 😅 Just need to add some carefully placed pencil marks on all four, in addition the bird will have a few rectangular veils of white in it’s surrounding to suggest that this scene is viewed through a window.