Thought — 2 Min Read
Voice In The Making Pt.1
by Case Greenfield, April 10th, 2023
Thought — 2 Min Read
Voice In The Making Pt.1
by Case Greenfield
April 10th, 2023
Developing your own artistic voice is a process. Some artists never complete it. Being – relatively speaking – a starting artist, I am still in this process. But … this seems to be a big step forward.
So, finally I moved into a new workshop. To me it makes all the difference.
So far, I always hesitated to actually go and paint. As an artist you really do need a good place where you can work, leave your dirty stuff, your drying artworks, working at several pieces simultaneously. You know, a place where you can meet with friends, bat also a place where you can be alone. A place where you can create.
And it works. Already, I have started working on the piece shown below. These are two phases of creation of the same artwork.
This is an intermediate state of the artwork. It lacks the surrounding border in pewter metallic color.
This is the current state of the artwork. With pewter and with thicker white lines. I may keep it like this.
It is not more than a study. But still. I have the feeling that this could be a good start of actually really developing my own artistic voice.
The central theme of my art is intended to be ‘mind models’, the realities that we create to shape ourselves. The last two years I have given it a great deal of thinking how exactly mind models would translate into an artwork.
Earlier I stated on my website (on the /about page):
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Voice – The mixture of realities is expressed in his art by mixing well-thought intent and spontaneous expression in the moment of creation, and by using mixed media techniques, such as acrylic, pastel and oil paint, markers and spray, combining different color palettes, graphic and painting styles, abstract and realistic elements, different scales and more, into a varied yet consistent whole – creating artworks with both an identifiable tension and an identifiable feeling of comfort, that he likes to call “Warm Grounding“.
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And I tend to stick to that. It means that I will work with abstract backgrounds, with roughly painted figures, and with drawn figures using narrow and slightly broader lines. All depicting the messy world around us, and often a cosy rabbit hole.
The challenge, I found out so far, is to keep the whole artwork harmonious.
