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Wired

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Today I’ve been wondering if other artists simultaneously work on several bodies of work at one time. Paintings seem to swirl through my head, even when I awake in the middle of the night. I don’t really want to be planning my paintings but sometimes it happens.

The one body of work I still continue to work on is “What Lies Beneath” … which has a sense of movement to it but also an underlying thread of geometrics. Perhaps these geometric shapes are a fallback to my love of geometry while growing up. Seriously, I was one of two girls in the advanced math class in high school. I loved math. So, maybe that’s my draw to geometrics?

But with some of my paintings I am drawn to use either white or black. The other body of work I am putting together I am calling “Wicked Good”. Is this normal though to paint in a few given directions all at one time?

Wired, 19×24, Acrylics on bristol board, 2013, Sharon Pierce McCullough.

Pencils to Paint

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January 13, 2013

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Lately I’ve been reflecting my transition from pencils to paint. I think my main influence for using prismacolor pencils was that I had good control of the medium, plus I loved being able to get deep, bright colors other pencils couldn’t achieve.

For some reason I am not a brush artist. I absolutely do not think I control a brush very well … no matter the size. Well, let me re-word that. I can control a brush but I don’t like the results when I use one most of the time.

When I think back to my prismacolor days, I realize that I liked having that control Now, for some reason, I have moved on to paint and a freedom in using the paints. I prefer using most anything as a tool rather than a brush, however. And, yes, I do utilize rollers of all sizes. My current paintings are created on both canvas and paper.

Fanticize, 2013, Abstract painting on paper by Sharon Pierce McCullough