Playing with technique

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So playing with technique...how does it happen? Almost by accident actually.  Careless drops of turpentine, unintentional scratches and fiddling with paint that's not yet dry, the last out of impatience mostly.  

ALSO by relooking at abandoned old work, not liking some part of it and taking sandpaper to the surface. Of course, there is also deliberate experimentation with materials. 

Drops of turp

Over the existing semi-dry grey paint I made radiating lines of burgundy and dripped turpentine from the outside to the points of origin of the lines. Having experimented with this technique in the painting of the bridge, it would be wrong to call it 'new.' Still, the result is new every time based on the opacity of the pigment, the quantity of paint on the canvas and the colours used.

I was looking for a way to create a sort of force on the side of the blue landing area, to go with the grey sea. A calm before the storm with a silent, static explosion before the boats can depart... then shapes began to emerge in the explosion on the side of the trapezium...

Using a pointy metal tool, I scraped out the figure of a boy. His arm is raised in the act of doing something, making it ambiguous: is he the creator of the explosion in the water, or is he helping to save the situation?

I worked some more on the triptych too, filling background colour and giving more definition.