

These are still the card stock 8.5 X 11" pen drawings. I have built up a body for forms and now I am considering how to translate them into painting. I am drawn towards a shift in scale and into color. I'm not nervous about color. Color relationships come pretty naturally to me. It is the shift in scale that worries me. I want to go larger, but I have always struggled so much when I have worked big, or even "bigish". I get confused about the relationships between the marks and the frame. I get confused about what I want. Do I want the marks to increase in size proportionate to the increase in the dimensions of the frame? Or do I want the marks stay small? I'm not sure. It is sort of a question of how much information should be in each square inch. When the viewer moves closer should an area that reads as one color/one shape from a distance, will it turn out to be one large brush stroke or will it be many? Or will the whole painting pulse with a variation in tightness/looseness? Probably that is what I will like best. If I let the painting pulse with that variation, then it can feel like it is expanding and condensing in different areas, like it is breathing. And it can mimic the visual experience of looking at a landscape, the way you shift your point of focus around to different spots in the vista that draw your eye, and the areas between points are blurred outs because you aren't looking at them, you're skimming over them. In the next moment you might go back to a skimmed area to really see something in it. The blur and focus, is like the tightness/looseness, expand/condense. So then the question is how exactly to get that into the paintings?
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