Blue Pond
About this artwork
This was based on a detail from a larger painting, says artist Janet Dyer. I often take photos of my finished work with my iPad and then section out details and enlarge them, then paint from those enlargements. I can get a multitude of paintings out of one painting. Sometimes I literally cut the painting down to a section I like. I find cropping improves a lot of things. Cutting a dull painting in half may produce two or more interesting paintings. In this piece, Janet used brushes and one particular palette knife to give texture by layering and making marks. A palette knife can drag the colors along without mixing them, so it may produce a more varied patch of color. Sometimes I use the knife to scrape the color into the canvasÑthe color gets pushed into the white canvas, producing some glowing jewel undertones.
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