Spacial development in a painting.
Next week try to push the sense of spaciality in your work.
You can attain this with layering and viscosity changes across the surface: for instance start your work with charcoal drawing, fix and add a layer of translucent wash in a warm color, then repeat charcoal, fix again and move to opaque areas of color...this requires some patience, especially with oil paint, but will provide a sense of space behind the picture plane.
In concert with this exercise go on line and read what Hans Hoffman and Clement Greenberg had to say on this issue.
Illusory space in a painting has been a hotly debated issue since the advent of 20th Century Modernism, but has pretty much fallen by the wayside in the Post Modern era, where anything goes and the flatness versus 3D glasses debate has little place in the radical methods of current art making.
See you next week, john.
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