130 - art process

I saw a video of you earlier this month that just absolutely had me giggling.

And what was it

about, Karen? Well, it was about you loving paint and mixing paint and mixing glazes and going,

oh, look at this.

Isn't this exciting?

Yeah.

It was wonderful to see that sheer enjoyment of the materials that we were using or the, I suppose, was it the materials or was it the anticipation of what you can do with those materials?

It was kind of all of it.

And actually, it was a bit of a giddy reel and I did it in the moment and just put it up, basically.

But I do.

It's the colours and the lusciousness of the paint and it gets all sticky and yummy and delicious and you mix it and it's lovely.

And the colours are so rich and I'm doing it again, aren't I?

yeah

yeah you can see me and if you could see me now i'm getting all kind of my face is going all scrunchy and my hands are going all uh it's so tactile and this is oil paint you're talking about isn't it yes it is and it is my one true love i think is oil paint but i do love acrylics but i make acrylics feel like oil when i paint with them Oh, so you're using mediums with them.

Yeah, I add medium to make sure that they've got, you know, a really delicious texture when I work with acrylic.

Whereas you'd layer and layer, but they're often fine layers.

So you might have a million layers.

My million layers would be about 20 inches thick.

Whereas yours... really beautiful um yeah so the reel was literally about look at this colour look at that colour and this is delicious and I'm in my happy place and I am it truly is when I go into the studio I get excited I really do it's a place of joy and happiness and giddiness and especially in the early stages or mid stages of painting, because you can't go wrong.

Or for me, you can't go wrong, because I'm not kind of looking at something and copying it.

So there's no pressure to make it look like something you're copying.

It's taking something and putting that joy on the canvas.

Do you

find it's a bit like, because I mean, I work in acrylics and acrylic ink when I'm creating a painting as if one that I intend to frame and sell.

Yes.