TO TAKE A FRESH YOUNG CANVAS’S VIRGINITY OR NOT..?

By now you’ll be aware that I’ve been struggling for the last few months over a body of work which I finally put to the sword the other day – this in favour of stretching a number of fresh new canvases to suit a need and fulfil how the ideas have panned out.

Anyway, the last couple of days have resulted in ‘soiling’ a couple of the large aforementioned white beauties again with colour, texture and any ‘sullied’ ideas I might have going on in this head of mine.

The results are exciting enough, although it always strikes me how sad too – Freshly Primed Canvases are stunning young things glowing in their innocence, and after those first ‘daubs’ of paint, it got me thinking just how much the rest of the painting process in general is nothing more than a procedure of trying to put right the resulting wrongs… Should we simply just leave Virgin Canvases alone..? Probably not! Unfortunately, white on white’s been done to death, and anyway, giving them a good seeing to beats doing most anything else really - in my opinion…