“Rainy Day Monday” (details)

“Rainy Day Monday” Diptych (detail #1,) acrylic paint on a 3D canvas.

I wanted to show the nature of the canvas, taking it to the extremes as in life’s highs and the lows. Colors, some more pleasant and harmonious and others not so much—almost in random chaos, like those events around us that color our days, with sometimes bright cheer and other times rather undefinable hues—yet still following those forever unavoidable, highs and lows.

My attempts at trying to control my photos of this piece soon became a loosing battle, that instead served to show its true nature, with form and chroma both struggling to dominate. The tension in the fauve colors demands to be seen, though constantly suppressed by the multifaceted canvas, ready to reflect any incidental light. Depending on available light, the composition migh insist that you see form over color, making the experience entirely dependent on where and how it’s displayed.

I added a band of subdued yellow, that all depending on the viewer can hold a multiple of meanings. But, no heart or set of eyes are the same, as are no two lives—our difficulties vary, as does our hopes and needs.

“Rainy Day Monday” Diptych (detail #2,) acrylic paint on a 3D canvas.

Using close-up details of “Rainy Day Monday,” I wanted to share the experience and dynamics of this piece, changing my angle of approach as much as possible from photo to photo. For the sake of authenticity and honest depiction, I used daylight lamps (5500/5600 Kelvin) and allowed the light from my garden window to blend with the light of the lamps, still the colors varied from photo to photo? It may seem unlikely but I’ve used no altering filters, to fully allow viewing to be as natural as a camera possibly can.

“Rainy Day Monday” Diptych (detail #3,) acrylic paint on a 3D canvas.
“Rainy Day Monday” Diptych (detail #4,) acrylic paint on a 3D canvas.
“Rainy Day Monday” Diptych (detail #5,) acrylic paint on a 3D canvas.

The colors of detail # 4 and 5 are the closest to how I see them myself in the painting, I hope that helps?

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