Ellen Roles

Fancy Dancer    18x18     acrylic and mixed media

Transparent paint in Fancy Dancer allows the colors and shapes of the under-painting to show. It is like layers of colored tissue wrapping paper as opposed to layers of opaque colored construction paper...more like a watercolor look.
The second two are opaque.
Abstract in Red   18x18    acrylic and mixed media

Abstract in Red    20x24    acrylic and mixed media

One of the principles of art is summed up in the often-used idea of papa, mama and baby bear  (a-lot, some and little) which gives the work good variety and entertainment. Some artists like to use the 2/3 to 1/3 division. I like to push it even further... trying to get  80/20, so that the dominate idea is very aggressive.

In all of these three, I generally followed the color plan of double-complement. This means the dominate color of red (in this example, in the 12:00 location) covers the most area. Turquoise at 6:00 used only in smaller amount by comparison…finally smaller amount of yellow-green and purple (at 3:00 and 9:00)

In all three, (a) there is no doubt that these are red painting!
(b) the ‘major-space-divisions’ which are far from equal
(c) the solid area is greater than use of lines, pattern and texture.
 An example of mama and baby bear applied to different elements.

It seems I haven’t yet finished enough red paintings…I like the energy of the red. More to come.
 I have not yet named the opaque works…..any suggestions.