Towards progress on my thesis' studio practice, ChromaTheory: On Abstract Painting, Color and Otherness, during June 2022, for the third time since January 2022, I worked on a dozen different 12 x 12" mixed media paintings on paper. I have used them as idea "tests" regarding how to resolve the next step of my approach to the canvas and linens I have been working on since Nov. 2021.
Before stenciling the gridded squares in various acrylic pinks that I often use onto the mixed media paintings, as seen in the pic above, I had previously tried and rejected drawing in pencil on the canvases and linens. Instead, on the canvases and linens I painted in pale pinks and very light greens. At this point, with one of the pinks, I tested out a more graphic element as a possible next or final stage to resolving the more than two dozen canvases in the current series.
