{"id":16,"date":"2016-02-17T04:38:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T04:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laurelantur.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/17\/2016-2-16-experiments-and-scratching\/"},"modified":"2016-02-17T04:38:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T04:38:37","slug":"2016-2-16-experiments-and-scratching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/17\/2016-2-16-experiments-and-scratching\/","title":{"rendered":"Experiments and Scratching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes revisiting a particular image feels like coming home. But lately it has felt stale. It&#8217;s so hard to feel like you are mastering something but still keeping your work fresh. Or to feel like you are working within your &#8220;style&#8221; while also trying out new things.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I really love the work of Marlene Dumas. She does portraits, and some of her work uses a wet into wet approach to create gorgeous, spontaneous, kind of creepy images. I&#8217;m playing around with that approach. She also uses found images from magazines as her references.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I like to be able to work spontaneously and to not use reference images all the time. Plus, copyright issues. But sometimes the well runs dry and I need to work from references to build up my internal image bank.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1306px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsobserver.com\/2012\/09\/03\/expressive-faces-in-the-crowd-by-marlene-dumas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5181e760e4b04f94760cb317\/51832db8e4b0046126d0409f\/56c3f2aab09f95c8b3b3256e\/1455682241529\/\/img.jpg?w=900\" alt=\"\u201cChlorosis (Love sick),\u201d 1994 (ink, gouache, and synthetic polymer paint on paper) by Marlene Dumas.\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cChlorosis (Love sick),\u201d 1994 (ink, gouache, and synthetic polymer paint on paper) by Marlene Dumas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5181e760e4b04f94760cb317\/51832db8e4b0046126d0409f\/56c3f36c07eaa0686e8472d8\/1455682425357\/\/img.jpg?w=900\" alt=\"Laurel Antur, Saving Girls from Hacks and Butchers,\u00a02016, Watercolor, 11 x 17, watercolor and ink.\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laurel Antur, Saving Girls from Hacks and Butchers,\u00a02016, Watercolor, 11 x 17, watercolor and ink.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5181e760e4b04f94760cb317\/51832db8e4b0046126d0409f\/56c3f44a37013be054b41d98\/1455682640644\/\/img.jpg?w=900\" alt=\"Laurel Antur, A 24-year-old American Wait Out the Hours, 2016, 9 x 12, Watercolor and Ink.\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laurel Antur, A 24-year-old American Wait Out the Hours, 2016, 9 x 12, Watercolor and Ink.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes revisiting a particular image feels like coming home. But lately it has felt stale. It&#8217;s so hard to feel like you are mastering something but still keeping your work fresh. Or to feel like you are working within your &#8220;style&#8221; while also trying out new things.&nbsp; I really love the work of Marlene Dumas. She does portraits, and some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}