The Simple Life

Since I first came across a Mark Rothko I’ve wanted to give this a go. Color Blocking was made famous by Piet Mondrian, whose distinctive squared paintings with black lines became fashionable patterns for clothing in the early 60’s. Later, American Mark Rothko started to produce large scale works exploring relationships between colors.

There are two color schemes that fascinate me, orange/shocking pink and ultra blue/lime. I hope to gave time to add the second as well.

Although Mark Rothkos work looks very simple, getting just the right colors and putting the paint on canvas with panache and without any distracting brushstrokes is quite a challenge. I now have a greater admiration for the master abstract technicians that have paved the way before us. THE SIMPLE LIFE is a tongue in cheek title for this challenging art work.  Mark Rothko favored the orientation at the top, but I think I prefer the one below. and yes, I did add a stripe of blue/red Pebeo iridescent paint for zing.