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TANYA COLE

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Creating ‘Oceans Within’ ~ An intuitively created painting by Tanya Cole

02/10/2016 By Tanya Cole Leave a Comment

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‘Ocean Within’ Original Acrylic on Canvas 36″ x 36″ © 2016 Tanya Cole

 

This painting was a joy to create! It started off in a fun way, collaborating with my 6 and 8 year old boys!

They love to start a canvas off with me, making marks with oil pastels.

Shapes, lines, texture, colour and movement. All laid down with love and joy.

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The boys lost interest pretty quickly, leaving me to move forward with expressing my soul, covering over the white canvas with more symbolic mark making and meaning.

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Bringing in colour whilst generally lost in the flow of creating.

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Accentuating shapes and patterns.

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And then bringing in a face, as an image appears in all the mark making and paint.

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Refining features and deepening paint layers.

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Tweaking and ‘playing’ with paint until I feel like the piece is finished!

This girl brought me so much joy as I painted her. The morning after I had finished her…I couldn’t wait to rush back into my studio to clap eyes on her once again!

That’s the power of intuitive & expressive painting. You never really know what you are going to get so it’s always a delightful surprise!

This lady has something about her and she makes me (and others) feel.

That’s pretty priceless in my book!

And there you have it…one of my most favourite ways to paint.

Would love to hear your feelings and thoughts on ‘Oceans Within’ and whether she speaks to you also? Let me know in the comments! 🙂 x 

‘Ocean Within’ Original Acrylic on Canvas 36″ x 36″ © 2016 Tanya Cole is currently on exhibit at Clancy’s in Dunsborough through until November 2016. She is available to purchase at this stage. Please email tdcole@bigpond with any inquiries.

Filed Under: intuitive painting, painting process, Tanya Cole Arts Tagged With: acrylic on canvas, expressive art, intuitive painting, layers on canvas, oceans within, painting stages, tanya cole

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