I’ve always been interested in Franz Kline’s work and have four play chairs in my studio. I piled them up higgldypiggledy and took some photographs of the pile up. I used this as the basis for my drawing, which I did in red paint pen.
I started panting with dioxin purple on a yellow ground. The purple went very black.
Progress
With the introduction of Quinacridone violet. I started seeing a structure emerging.
At this point I’ve really got my composition as I thought it might look like in the beginning.
Here I’ve added Azo red.
More of the same
I’ve added orange as a contrast to the purple. I’ve also started painting the back ground a van Gogh greeny-yellow.
Bit more green.
The back ground is greener then it looks in the photograph. The whole idea was to create a very graphic image instead of a painting that relied on brush strokes and edges, this one relies on form and structure witch is unusual for me.
Play Chairs #1
24″x35″ Oil