In this studio vlog, I am switching it up between shaping wax sculptures and working on large oil paintings. I made a huge patch of yellow oil paint, and you can see me using it on several canvases. I often paint on several canvases at the same time.
Yellow is one of the first colours of spring. The plants outside have entered the paintings with a green abstract usurper entering the fray. But mostly, it’s about painting, sculpture and documenting the process of making art in an artist studio.
I like the studio DNA that entered the small canvases when wayward paint drips down on them from a large oil painting or when I used the accidental shapes created by raindrops randomly dripping on the wax.
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I have no idea what the green shape is or where it came from, but there is a real calmness to it as it watches over the other shapes play. Many of these shapes start as drawings and eventually jump into the oil paintings. I remember that red line shell-like shape in the left-hand corner from a drawing I did on one of the silkscreens from Berlin. The dark sculpture shape in the top right-hand corner was in a series of ink drawings that I later tore up. It conjures up a ceramic, almost …