So the latest image of this green painting is so DIVINE!!!! I'm so excited - the geometric and opaque areas really enhance the organic aspect of the original painting!!

I decided the next attempt could be from multi-colour to monotone, so I chose blue.

I'm not sure I'm finished with this one yet, but I like to start another painting while I'm about 3/4 the way through, as the new painting often brings something to the unfinished one. The next painting I decided I'd try a green beginning, with the idea that it could be a landscape.

I really love this start, but I was left deflated - been there, done that. My facilitator, Sarah Cowan, at VISA suggested adding a geometric design and opaque areas to contrast the organic nature. It was a challenge because I loved this and didn't want to lose any of it, but I jumped in and changed it.

Something was beginning to happen, but I didn't like the pink blob in the bottom left, so that was changed at my next try.

As I did the series, I moved further in the abstract direction, as seen in the third set of four on 16" x 20" canvas. My next series of paintings on the larger canvas changed my direction to a totally abstract image, yet it retains an organic sense, with light and dark areas in the composition which draw the viewer's eye and emotional responses.

​My latest larger canvas used so much watery paint, starting on a white canvas to build up a background layer, that I used a hair dryer to dry the paint. This process created another step in my explorations of the abstract direction I'm presently moving - the hair dryer moved the paint differently than I had done previously on the smaller canvas.
 

I've been attending the Saturday Art Club for awhile now, since August, 2014. I started with an idea, as seen in my earlier posts about the "Night Garden". Since those first new explorations of expanding my concept of the night garden, my paintings have relied more on the movement and flow of the paint itself and my emphasis to its original beauty. I have painted 3 sets of four paintings, working on a set of four at the same time. 
At first, I was starting my paintings on a black background, as seen in my earlier posts. Then I used a previously painted canvas to start my layers of drips and splashes of paint. As I did the series, I moved further in the abstract direction. These pics are from the Saturday Art Club Show at the VISA school.

These two of a series of four, are the same paintings in my previous show at the library.

These two are from the next set of four, and you can see how they are becoming more abstract.

These two are from the final set of four, and the last of the smaller format of 20" x 16". You can see how the abstraction is becoming prevalent as I let go of a predetermined idea of what my painting should look like and allowed the paint to express itself to me.