Acrylic Paint on 50cm x 70 cm (~19.5in x 27.5in) wooden panel. Tallinn, Estonia. 2018.
I decided to title this painting Starry-Eyed Space and Time mostly due to the subject matter. I wanted to avoid any eye in the sky, big brother title :D
The space in the title is quite literal here, since there is a night sky full of stars. Time is represented by the flowing water swelling and crashing. We can never step into the same river twice and all that jazz.
I considered this painting a work in progress for quite some time. I laid out an eerie setting on the canvas and I wasn't sure how to proceed! I used primarily this olive green for the sky, but there are heavy undertones of ultramarine and violet that pull the green this way and that. I was using deep brushstrokes and thick layers of paint for the background.
You may think I went a bit overboard with the stars in the sky, and you may be right. But then again, the stars help to break up the strokes in the sky and bring it together. You can never put fewer stars in there, only more and more :) I grew fond of the large star in the upper left hand corner. At first I dropped the paint and it left that large circle. However I knew that I could not make a mistake. As taught by the legendary Bob Ross, there are no mistakes just happy accidents. This large star helps pull your eyes away from the gaze of the single eye.
The blues are what I really took away from the experience of painting this. The color of the eye and the water is showing up again and again in my paintings the past couple of years. Blending of turquois and white.
I hope you are enjoying the insight here into my art. It feels much better to me to post an inside story in addition to the photos.
☮♥RSM.
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