A Second Painting

This oil painting ‘Roundism – 06-07-16’ is the third one in the same series under the same name. In 2015 I started a small series of drawings, all based on one particular female form I admired. As the series progressed slowly I felt confident to start putting them into oil. For this one I combined cubistic forms with pointillism. However, the latter was not exactly the plan! On the contrary, I wanted to execute my graphite pencil drawing Nude 28-04-15 in oil. Then things turned out wrong. Let me explain why.

Mishaps

There are times a Midas artist can turn everything into gold. Then again, also times when there is doubt and a chosen path once trodden eventually leads to a dead end. Such times occured during the creation of this one. Totally dissatisfied I was and I did not know what to do next. As if a big blockage got hold of me. There you have it: an artist is being put tot he test. Either smash it into smithereens or keep your head cool and ponder. So I kept my head cool and wonder. Lo and behold, after a while it occured to me I never combined my personal roundism style with pointillism. The latter I only used in a single oil painting so far. Why not give it another shot then?

Kill Color Saturation

After regrouping myself I also came to see my color mix simply was too strong. For no particular reason I used a lot of pinks, reds and mean greenies. The scheme as such was not too bad. The saturational degree, harmony and interrelations of planes were standing too much on their own though. They were dire and exhausting to look at for a longer period of time. All of a sudden I remembered the theory of divisionism as practised by impressionists and pointillists like Signac, Seurat, van Rysselberghe and others.

Culmulative Effect

The trick and therefor the solution was to put complementary colors next to eachother. At a distance they will converge in the eyes of the spectator. The purpose of it all is to gaze at the cumulative effect of all colors. On the other hand one is still able to detect the separate color planes at the same time. And so it worked!

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Oil on wood panel (85 x 120 x 0.9 cm)

Artist: Corné Akkers