My process here is to paint it as I go. I mixed up a few colors, but finding the shapes and shape relationships is done intutively. I like using colors close in value, like the purple and the gray, because you get an interesting and soft spatial change.
I like the big, sweeping purple areas. They come from lines but end up reaching themselves into shapes or areas. There are several areas or groups of color arrangements I really like. Especially the bottom right corner. It does seem like a face. The color Naples Yellow is mixed into all the colors seen here. It's a soft, beige-type yellow.The painting has indistinct spatial areas; it seems to have some spatial structure, although it is vague. It does have smaller forms at the top which lend a feeling of recceding objects. Lastly, the Naples Yellow is drybrushed over some larger shapes, which imply a texture. On the left you see a circlular form which I liked so much I've done 3 or 4 paintings that feature it, Here's one: Aperture, shown below:
I think there are more motifs in the first painting I could use to start another!
