THE SELF-ISOLATION RESIDENCY 14TH JULY 2021: DAY 472

New painting in progress, working title:
'Perturbations II: Casting Shadows Within the Void.'
Personal Topography Series, oil paint on canvas, 407 x 610 mm.

This might not be perhaps the most interesting post to the casual observer but I'm excited about it. Today I have started for on, what I calling for now, 'Perturbations II: Casting Shadows Within the Void.'; I love the first version of this painting  (below) but I really want to take this idea of 'just painting the void (the sublime)' to another level.  In the first version of this piece I worked just with yellow ochre oil paint over a black acrylic ground, which did work really well, but I was a little frustrated by both the fact that it used the black acrylic ground and the lack of potential colour in the piece.

This piece is intended to rectify both of those problems first by creating a 'positive' ground of my traditional 'near black' oil paint to begin with; the whole canvas being grounded with this in place of the black acrylic ground. thus allowing me to paint the void leaving the 'perturbations' in near black. oil I will also bring more tones and colours into  the painting of the void,  with the intention of hopefully giving it even more infinite depth.