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Pure
Process: Study3
Mary
Gravelle
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Title: Pure
Process: Study3
Artist:
Mary
Gravelle
Media: Acrylic on paper, 24" x
18"
Created Spring 2004 Semester,
Manchester Community College, Painting II Class
About this painting:
This particular project was to be all about process. The process that my art professor spoke of was way different than the process we speak of in Wisdom Painting.
Pure process in Wisdom Painting is simply following the materials stroke after stroke to discover what shows up for us trusting and knowing that the highest painting comes through us from our inner source. There is no pre-planning, just following our intuition and letting it lead us.
Pure process for this class meant that we were to plan ahead of time by making experiments of different processes shying away from emerging image. We could use any method so long as the final product remained "all about process".
We were to do one Loud and one Subtle piece. This is a test for my Loud piece.
I was interested in following paint drips from the four directions. I also wanted to build up some areas where the drips would be circumvented and redirected. Would they be allowed to continue their journey? Or would they take a turn that took them elsewhere? Would they simply flow over the obstacle and keep flowing? And would a weave begin to emerge in the center from the flow of dripping resulting from each side? What would happen as the different colors overlapped onto each other?
For this particular study, I glued bamboo sticks horizontally and vertically onto the paper. I also gessoed some tissue paper confetti over and around the sticks. Then, I applied dry wall tape (the yellow grid stuff) around the edges, forming a frame of sorts. I wanted to see if the grid pattern would remain after taking the tape off at the end of the process. And I wondered how the drips would perform over the grid?
First, I painted a wash of color in rectangular shapes with a sponge around the paper. After it dried, I began my process of inquiry, systematically applying abundant color washes with sponge and squeezing when I wanted it to drip down the paper. I turned the paper in the opposite direction once the drips settled at bottom to let them run back across the entire dimension.
I let each color dry to avoid muddy colored drips. I began in the center with the yellow and proceeded downward with my colors, drying each time a new color ran itself out.
Then, I turned the paper and proceeded from center and began the whole process again.
It was a scary and exciting process, running the gamut of feelings of exhilaration and joy at what was happening only to find fear that I might ruin it if I continue. I am happy with the result. I especially love the paint effect on the bamboo. In person, it is beautiful how the colors adhered and rolled around the poles. After taking off the yellow grid tape, I was pleased that it did in fact leave the grid underneath.
I hope you will read the comments that were posted on this piece, as they offer an insight more palpable than I could have expressed.
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Posted: 12/23/2007
© 2004 Mary Gravelle
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