Remember this?
I wrote about it recently here.
Anyway, it’s now finished, and looks like this.
{No matter how hard I try, my photography and editing skills SUCK.}
Here are a few close ups:
It has many layers, this one. The one thing that’s bothering me now is the name. As you may know, usually my paintings tell me what their names are during the process. Occasionally that doesn’t happen and I am left with a nameless painting, and the option of calling it ‘Untitled’ which is a personal no-no for me.
All paintings mean something, and even if the artist doesn’t want to distract the viewer from drawing their own conclusions, calling a painting ‘Untitled’ feels like a cop out to me. It makes me feel sorry for the painting. {I know, I’m such an anthropomorphiser.}
So I’m asking for input please; perhaps you see something in the painting that I don’t, which would help me to name it. I may or may not use the suggestions, but daft as I am, I want this painting to know it has a place in the world. 🙂
Hm, one of the first things that came into my head when I saw it was that the brighter blue area looked a bit like an island… But perhaps Island isn’t a very imaginative name! It’s a lovely painting 🙂
It kinda looks like an abstract still life of a collection of objects to me, actually. Like it’s a blue vase or a big fat jug or something. And they’re all drunk and partying it up when no one is looking. I’d go with “When No One Is Looking” or “When You Weren’t Here” haha.
Tara, you suck with photo editing and i suck with names. I’d probably just call it BLUE BECOMING or something like that… 🙂
It is beautiful. Hard to believe how it started out. Love the first pic too (and i LOVE Flora!) but the final painting seems much less Flora and probably much more “you”. I absolutely love that intertwining on the left side… Like a pod reaching out to the sky. You did a beautiful job with this one Tara. I want it to know it has a place in the world too. xoxo
What an amazing transformation! – I was reading my book the other night (Kite Runner) and I read the words “blameless blue” and I immediately thought of your painting x
As soon as I saw her the words “Knowing stillness” came into my head. She is beautiful, I got goosebumps looking at her.