Firing Up the Paint Palette: Paint Exercises
![Coarse Interference Patterns - early stage](http://andycline.art/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Coarse-Interference-Patterns-early-stage.png)
Fortunately, I have an over-supply of canvas to fire up the paint palette with.
Shape, color, line. Those are the essentials of a composition. I have these small canvasses, or sometimes I like to use a heavy Rives BFK, that I work on freely. I start them without a goal which probably comes from the influence of modern art.
I want to share these loose, personal paintings here, as well as any other experiments and more committed works because for a lot of artists, we like to make the magic happen in secret and then present the finished product with a bow on it. It doesn’t always work out that way though, so this blog project is to give you a picture of how paintings can rise and fall and shift and form.
This little piece on a scrap of loose canvas is called Coarse Interference Patterns. Coarse because it is composed of a lot of paint-brush-shaped shapes, crude like that. Interference, because the directions of these shapes and lines are dissonant and disrepectful of one another. Patterns, because all is pattern at a certain scale.
I don’t know how long this little piece will go on.
This one is painted with remnants of my old acrylic paint collection, most of it from Los Angeles. I have a few remaining containers of the following that are featured here:
- A dwindling assortment of Nova Color paint direct from Blackwelder Street in Culver City
- A half of a shoebox full of Ronan paints from McLogans, 2010 S Main St Los Angeles, CA
- A test investment in some Brera acrylics, an Italian brand. I think I bought them at Sekaido in Shinjuku, Tokyo.
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement… for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. Max Beckmann
![](http://andycline.art/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Coarse-Interference-Pattern-Stage-2.png)
Check back for fresh versions of this painting!
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