This was being painted from the flashe drawing I made from computer mockup. It was painted in acrylic first, a habit I got into when I was painting in a smaller studio here in New Mexico and couldn't take the fumes of the turpentine anymore.
I was painting freehand and liked the distance and autonomy the freer paint gave the larger version. Although I lose the more rigid surface I get from squaring off more carefully, the puzzle-like connecting like pieces I also like. Not to get too complicated here but that level may come again in the future as another layer of
paint.
(a year later, painting in oil)
What I meant below, as the genres I work through, is the repeated surface that makes the what I call Symbolic level appear. They appear more 'right' or 'true.'
It's on its way there now.
I decided to take the two panels apart and let them be separate paintings.
Here are a group from 2005-06, starting to work again.
You can see some of the original 2000, Madrid series paintings here: http://www.gregorybotts.com/
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