Blue Ridge, Daily Painter: Janet Wimmer: Exploration and Imagination

Friday, April 15, 2016

Exploration and Imagination

Parkway Series #446 12 x 16 oil $195.

Parkway Series #447 12 x 16 oil sold

Parkway Series #448 12 x 16 oil sold

Value Patterns are quick gestures of the dark shapes in a composition. After beginning these three paintings with value sketches using black acrylic on a red canvas, I then finished each one from imagination - not referring to a photo or painting on location like I usually do. This is stretching me to do something different and to explore the shapes, reflective light, and color theory rather than just translate what is before me.

1 comment:

LindaApril 15, 2016 at 10:46 PM
I like each one better than the one before! Lovely!
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Treatise on why I create

An artist, musician, craftsman, theatrical director, performer, all know that the human heart longs for truth, goodness, and beauty. If we can create that sense of longing, we capture our audience in the creative experience. In Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz, Frank creates a magical story about longing for home. "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" is a plea by a young girl to find that place of rest, a home in which to feel safe. St. Augustine said "our hearts are restless until we find our rest in God". Ennio Morricone, the Italian composer, expressed his faith through his music. He sat before a painting of Jesus every day and prayed for an hour before beginning his day. His composition "The Mission" transports the listener to another place, another time, another dimension of reality - an eternal home- a celebration of beauty. My goal in painting is to draw the viewer into a higher sense of reality and to feel that sense of longing and to hopefully realize that longing is ultimately for the eternal home, Heaven.