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This is a painting by me and John Wasteneys - one of the two people I'd paint with. The other is Natasha. Nat needs to paint something with me.

This had very little planning behind it. A lot of picking photos we like, and "Wow, I'm painting something with you!" Then plenty of things not working, over-painting them, starting each part over 3 or 4 times ultimately because we're complex people, and have made it too hard for ourselves to comprehend without a headache or getting really tired. I think most of the reason this actually became anything in the end was just committed effort: we had to finish it, and it had to be satisfactory. There was plenty of down time in this, and most of the time spent on it was observation and reanalysis. (We were excited about painting this, but without the psychological motivation to do so, I think...)

The great advice offered here is: Plan collaborations. They are more likely to be successful that way. This even had to be halted and re-planned to actually work in the end, and I think it still had more potential.

Suprisingly, for something so disorganized, I don't think there is any .. artistic dominance here. I know I did a lot of stuff to finalize a representational shape, but I'm not responsible for a lot of the under-painting work. I know my own technical skill enough to know what I didn't do.

The amount of energy, spontaneity, imagination, and the fact it's a product of two people('s minds) steers it towards child-like qualities. I don't think whatever the concept behind this really is , is more complex than that (which is a great irony next to how confusing this painting was while working on it).

I also think this is neat: John said that there are 'black holes' in his work. I notice that what I do is the reverse, where the subject has plenty of light around it, and it gets darker further out. (This is simply how I see.) Anyway, after staring at this for a while, it is evident that both of these are present. I'd have to go into Photoshop and outline it for you (probably), but what is there is conclusively a nice donut. I like donuts.

Acrylic on a really huge canvas.
Copyright (c) Karolina Szablewska and John Wasteneys - 2007.

Description
This is a painting by me and John Wasteneys - one of the two people I'd paint with. The other is Natasha. Nat needs to paint something with me.

This had very little planning behind it. A lot of picking photos we like, and "Wow, I'm painting something with you!" Then plenty of things not working, over-painting them, starting each part over 3 or 4 times ultimately because we're complex people, and have made it too hard for ourselves to comprehend without a headache or getting really tired. I think most of the reason this actually became anything in the end was just committed effort: we had to finish it, and it had to be satisfactory. There was plenty of down time in this, and most of the time spent on it was observation and reanalysis. (We were excited about painting this, but without the psychological motivation to do so, I think...)

The great advice offered here is: Plan collaborations. They are more likely to be successful that way. This even had to be halted and re-planned to actually work in the end, and I think it still had more potential.

Suprisingly, for something so disorganized, I don't think there is any .. artistic dominance here. I know I did a lot of stuff to finalize a representational shape, but I'm not responsible for a lot of the under-painting work. I know my own technical skill enough to know what I didn't do.

The amount of energy, spontaneity, imagination, and the fact it's a product of two people('s minds) steers it towards child-like qualities. I don't think whatever the concept behind this really is , is more complex than that (which is a great irony next to how confusing this painting was while working on it).

I also think this is neat: John said that there are 'black holes' in his work. I notice that what I do is the reverse, where the subject has plenty of light around it, and it gets darker further out. (This is simply how I see.) Anyway, after staring at this for a while, it is evident that both of these are present. I'd have to go into Photoshop and outline it for you (probably), but what is there is conclusively a nice donut. I like donuts.

Acrylic on a really huge canvas.
Copyright (c) Karolina Szablewska and John Wasteneys - 2007.