Painting with loose paint scraped from palatte

Experiment with oil, acrylic and varnish on canvas.

At the beginning of term I felt like I was in a transitional period. I needed to play around with paint more so than before. I have been making big oil paintings but often felt like there was something missing. I often troubled myself with issues of colour but looking back now, it may have actually been composition which was confusing me.

Add captionExperiment with oil, acrylic and varnish on canvas.

'Untitled' paintings in show at the beginning of stage 2.

Scrapings of paint from palette purposefully  dropped to the floor.

Each time I clean my palette I am fascinated with the colours and the mass of paint that is randomly placed on the palette, I carefully scrape it clean, trying to keep the scrapings as intact as possible.  These paintings are an attempt to make paintings from random placement of colour. I allowed the paint to merge with varnish the pushed and pulled the paint through the varnish. I left the paintings in an up right position, to allow the paint to drip and fall without my control.