Paint on Paint

"I wish you love"  oil on board 6 x 4 ©Ct Cummins

This was totally an experimental painting.  I needed to see as much paint in a small space as possible and still let it be a great little painting. Vincent van Gogh's painting technique was like applying frosting to a canvas.  I first saw the Van Gogh exhibit in Los Angeles, California and was awe struck at the thickness of his paint application.

It seemed like toothpaste on a canvas.  I knew at that moment that I was going to paint thick.  After a few years of looking and searching out other master painters I began to horde books on Monet.  I traveled to Santa Barbara Museum where they have his Cathedral paintings of the Rouen Cathedral and standing as close as security would let me without touching the art you could see just paint on top of paint on top of paint and not until you stepped back maybe 10 feet did the painting come into focus.  I have been on an artistic journey to replicate that in my work.  I would hope before I no longer can paint that I succeed in this endeavor.  I find no greater artist to  esteem too.  I recently found Sean Diediker and found a living artist mastering his paint application.  With today being 30 degrees in Florida flowers make me think summer can't be far away