Breaking Through to Blue

These six paintings were intended to be hung very close together, rather than as shown here. They are each ten inches by ten inches and I did them very quickly. I was trying to change my palette. I always use the same old colors over and over. My studio is filled with orange, red, yellow and smaller amounts of cool colors. I had to force myself to use mostly blues. These paintings all have deep sides and the paintings go around the edges to the sides. As I was painting them I would put two at at time together, and connect shapes and colors, select another two, and kept turning them and varying what I put side by side, in the hope that in the end all of the pieces would work together. Well, most work well together. I really loved doing them because it just felt right, came together, things were working plus I did a lot of drawing on them and that was fun. I am working on another blue palette painting now that's 48 x 48 and will also have a lot of drawing. It's staring at me right nowbut I have another painting in line in front of it so it will just have to wait it's turn.

Comments

[Jackie Jacobson]

Chris, I love this whole color palette departure. The blues are just wonderful, and the movement in the pieces is great. I also love the checkerboard sections in some of the pieces, and how you fractured those checkerboards. Boy you're good. DO MORE...

[Bonnie]

Fabulous!

[Juanita Monette]

HI CHRIS, I LOVE THESE BLUE PAINTINGS

XO, JUANITA