{"id":6788,"date":"2016-03-06T13:56:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T21:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alleyartstudio.com\/?p=6788"},"modified":"2017-04-26T18:39:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T18:39:44","slug":"tulips-ish-lets-just-call-them-tulips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/?p=6788","title":{"rendered":"Tulips-ish: Let’s Just Call Them Tulips"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"March<\/a><\/p>\n

What? Tulips? I don\u2019t paint flowers, at least not specific flowers. In the past I\u2019ve painted a couple of paintings that could be considered flowers, but they were wonky and highly abstracted. But amazingly, they both sold . . . . ummmmm.<\/p>\n

My heart sank a bit when Tory, Bonnie, and I met the end of 2015 to decide our 2016 show schedule for Compass Gallery<\/a>. January was Magnetic Pull<\/strong> <\/em>and reflected what art we felt pulled to create. February was Light As Air<\/strong><\/em>, and I had happily been working on my Funky Junkyard Birds for a couple of months. When it came time to decide on March, Bonnie suggested we have a show about tulips. I gulped and resolved to push through the fear and just make the art.<\/p>\n

I decided I needed to start early for the March show. On a rainy day in January, I spent the day in my studio. I was playing with the idea of painting a close up of a tulip, abstracted beyond recognition. My first go round went like this:<\/p>\n

\"March<\/a><\/p>\n

\"March<\/a><\/p>\n

Then I started another one and the first layer looked like a misshaped lemon (I’m not even sharing the photo of the big yellow painted lemon!).<\/p>\n

\"March<\/a><\/p>\n

I decided this idea wasn\u2019t working for me. I eventually left the studio that day feeling like I had spread a lot of paint, but feeling uninspired and unsuccessful. I was missing something. I remembered a favorite children\u2019s book titled ish<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Peter Reynolds. Why couldn\u2019t I paint tulips in the ish<\/em> fashion? I felt myself getting inspired and motivated again, motivated to get painting, big and small.<\/p>\n

I started in using three pre-prepared boards that were a wee 6×6 inches. I had fun adding splashes of color mimicking bouquets of tulips. I felt like I was on to something.<\/p>\n

\"Let's<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Collapsing<\/a><\/p>\n

\"A<\/a><\/p>\n

Then I prepared four 12×12-inch boards in my usual fashion, applying paint, a layer of plaster, and then sealing them with a layer of acrylic. I was ready to paint my version of tulips using oil and cold wax. I laid down paint, I scraped it back. I told myself I didn\u2019t need to paint exact replicas of tulips, but just to use color and texture to create something tulips-ish<\/em>. It was working.<\/p>\n

\"March<\/a><\/p>\n

\"March<\/a><\/p>\n

\"March<\/a><\/p>\n

I ended up with a series of three paintings where I used black and grey as a backdrop to really make the color of the flowers pop.<\/p>\n

\"According<\/a><\/p>\n

\"According<\/a><\/p>\n

\"According<\/a><\/p>\n

I wanted to create one bigger piece for the show, so I dug out a 24×24 inch painting that had been in a show in 2013. It was begging to be repurposed and given new life.<\/p>\n

\"March<\/a><\/p>\n

I had fun covering the bright stripes of color, leaving the essence of a flower, which I then went in and defined using an ebony pencil, a combination of reds and alizarin crimson mixed with white to create some lovely pinks.<\/p>\n

\"March<\/a><\/p>\n

The result of my push\/pull transformation is Echoes of Summer<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Echoes<\/a><\/p>\n

We hung the show on Thursday and I was happy with my nod to tulips. Once again, our disparate work came together to form a lively show.<\/p>\n

\"March<\/a><\/p>\n

\"March<\/a><\/p>\n

\"March<\/a>Just Tulips<\/em> will be on display at the Compass Gallery at Willamette Heritage Center through March 30, 2016, and the gallery is open Monday-Saturday, 10:00 am \u2013 5:00 pm. The Opening Reception will be held Thursday, March 10, from 5-7 pm.<\/p>\n

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What? Tulips? I don\u2019t paint flowers, at least not specific flowers. In the past I\u2019ve painted a couple of paintings that could be considered flowers, but they were wonky and highly abstracted. But amazingly, they both sold . . . . ummmmm. My heart sank a bit when Tory, Bonnie, and I met the end … Continue reading Tulips-ish: Let’s Just Call Them Tulips<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,19,145,6,182,38,130,141,1],"tags":[50,34,146,183,243,45,244,17,138],"class_list":["post-6788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstract-painting","category-alley-art-studio","category-art-studios-at-mission-mill","category-art-work","category-compass-gallery","category-oil-and-cold-wax-2","category-painting-studio","category-plaster","category-uncategorized","tag-alley-art-studio","tag-art-shows","tag-art-studios-at-mission-mill","tag-compass-gallery","tag-compass-gallery-at-willamette-heritage-center","tag-dayna-j-collins","tag-just-tulips","tag-oil-and-cold-wax","tag-plaster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7886,"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788\/revisions\/7886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daynacollinsblog.com\/curele\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}