What I Did:
Oil on panel. 30 x 24 cm.
How I Did It:
I do not know how many times I have touched up this little painting! Doing a color-field from a thin layer is what has popped up to my eyes when I saw the photo for the first time. But I did not know that it was so difficult to create this kind of painting. Impastos and glazes without rest. But the pleasure was there, to do blurred outlines and to search for light.
Lessons Learned:
- I have tried not to do a landscape from this detail! So difficult not to give in to.
- I believe, besides, I have not succeeded in abolishing the perspective. I am sometimes wondering whether I should have painted several layers next to each other, in order to search flatness of the surface.
- It has been very tough to “forget” here the butterfly, that is to say, the subject.
- At last, it is not completely a color-field, but an approach.
Marion Boddy-Evans, Painting Guide, says:
I think it's very successful as a color-field painting, with a depth and vibrancy to the color. And a great leap of imagination from the overall butterfly to a tiny area of color in its patterns, then turning this into the whole painting.
