When I start a painting, I start with one color and the color of the linen. I don’t plan the palette ahead of time - I don’t know where I’ll end up. I just know the first move.
In this painting, for the first color, I knew I wanted to do a purple stain. Every other decision follows from that. In this solid shape here, I wonder if I can tune that in a way so that when you first look at it, it’s static - maybe it’s pushing you out of the painting. Or maybe I can tune it so that the longer you look, it gives way or softens.
The work is a combination of planning these little pencil sketches I make that start each painting and improvisation, where it’s just one color and the color of the linen, and where are we going to go?
