I painted the background in this new abstract painting with darker blues on the edges, moving to lighter colors toward the top center, with cadmium yellow light as a center focus. For the foreground, I decided to try darker colors from the top down and bottom up, meeting about two-thirds of the way up.
I began with a deep magenta, then prussian blue and ultramarine blue. I drew lines across the canvas, creating small shapes I could fill in later. When I finished drawing the lines for one color, I took a small wet paintbrush and filled the shapes in, leaving them translucent so that the background would show through. Where I thought it necessary, I added more paint to the mixture.
This is a time-consuming process. I will continue with lighter blues tomorrow.
