I'm coming towards the end of this art challenge this week and I have decided to roll two of the topics into one; smallest painting and largest painting. My smallest painting is one of several I made in my Krowji studio. I was experimenting with tiny ink landscapes. I framed them with cut out text from a book to give them a narrative. I wrote about them in my last blog post 'How I Name My Paintings'. This particular piece I never named or framed, it has been hanging around the studio for a few years now. The benefits of painting this small are:
My current largest pieces I made whilst under a mentorship program. All the art from this collection I collectively called Out West, the three largest are almost 60 inches wide. These mixed media works are rolled-up in my studio. I haven't looked into framing them as I don't have the wall space. I enjoyed making these pieces, two of them were partly-painted on location at Pendeen and in St Just. Although those places are close by, there is a difference in the colour palette. This is due to the mining of the area. I deliberately left some of the Pendeen lighthouse painting white, to bring more focus to other areas of the composition. The benefits of working large are:
Stephanie Croydon ©2020
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