Not exact matches
As the Pearls of Chicago team reminded me, it is so important to start
slowly when building
color (specifically when discussing
eye makeup and lip
color) because it is so much easier to add extra details as opposed to taking off makeup without smudging and having to start the process all over from the beginning.
It takes a bit of time to see that the central white bands are of slightly varying dimensions; the play between
color and scale, and then the contrast with white, bombard the
eye, but
slowly the bands individuate out of the series to differentiate themselves from one another.
As my
eyes slowly adjusted, I started to see other soft changes in
color as well.
The final works of the blue series anticipate the black paintings; first perceived as a uniform
color surface, they
slowly yield to the
eye's insistence, revealing a subtly inflected chromatic pattern.