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| "Tangled" ©Mary Montague Sikes |
When I painted "Tangled", I first cut a sheet of Yupo to fit an 18" x 24" gallery-wrapped stretched canvas, then I applied matte medium to both the canvas and the Yupo and adhered the two together. Since I love working on stretched canvas and I love working on Yupo, this gave me the best of two worlds. Next, I used my favorite Robert Doak intense watercolors in spray bottles to apply layers of paint. Later, I used Derwent Inktense pencils and blocks to draw and emphasize sections and parts of the image I had created.
In studying this painting, I have many thoughts run through my mind. Where is this place? Is it on Xanadu? Are there shells on its beach? A sun in its sky? So many tangled thoughts flutter and vanish. I study each section and more meaningful thoughts arise. There is wonder of a new world and places in the universe and beyond about which we know nothing. I wonder and wonder and wonder.
4 comments:
Great title. Some vivid colors there.
I love this because our thoughts seem to go into the cosmos and this looks like the cosmos to me. I promise I didn’t have any shrooms:) I love these colours...very vibrant
hi Monti - every meaningful thought ... is good - as I could spend a few hours happily looking at your painting ... and as you say 'dreaming' ideas into it ... cheers Hilary
Alex, thank you.
Birgit, I love your thoughts about this. Thank you.
Hilary, I so enjoy doing this kind of work. Thanks.
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