http://mtmcclanahan.com/ThePaintersTongue ONLINE JOURNAL OF MTMCCLANAHAN Mon, 28 May 2012 02:46:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://mtmcclanahan.com/ThePaintersTongue/strategies/ http://mtmcclanahan.com/ThePaintersTongue/strategies/#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 16:24:24 +0000 MT McClanahan http://mtmcclanahan.com/ThePaintersTongue/?p=5715 Maybe the path will become naturally straighter as I go, I don’t know; I guess I could decide to make it so at any time. But painting for me is a searching out and I’m not sure there has to be any goal other than expression for the moment.]]> http://mtmcclanahan.com/ThePaintersTongue/strategies/feed/ 0 http://mtmcclanahan.com/ThePaintersTongue/painting-air/ http://mtmcclanahan.com/ThePaintersTongue/painting-air/#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 07:53:18 +0000 MT McClanahan http://mtmcclanahan.com/ThePaintersTongue/?p=5610 These "completing" colors work as reflected light bouncing off an area of color; this gives atmosphere to the color--I am actually painting air, or better, the effects of it so that I feel I am looking through the colors rather than just at them.]]> http://mtmcclanahan.com/ThePaintersTongue/painting-air/feed/ 0 http://mtmcclanahan.com/ThePaintersTongue/why-i-paint-fast/ http://mtmcclanahan.com/ThePaintersTongue/why-i-paint-fast/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 21:12:39 +0000 MT McClanahan http://mtmcclanahan.com/ThePaintersTongue/?p=5549 I choose to paint quickly. By moving my brush quickly I avoid contrivances--my paintings become spontaneous reactions which is what I'm after. Also, it's like drawing a large curve with pencil on paper--the faster you make the mark the smoother and surer it will be.]]> http://mtmcclanahan.com/ThePaintersTongue/why-i-paint-fast/feed/ 0 http://mtmcclanahan.com/ThePaintersTongue/autobiographical-works/ http://mtmcclanahan.com/ThePaintersTongue/autobiographical-works/#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 20:32:24 +0000 MT McClanahan http://mtmcclanahan.com/ThePaintersTongue/?p=5462 Every heartfelt work is autobiographical. It's natural and inevitable that the artist, emersed in the process, will lose all that he is to the work and the work will tell on him afterward.]]> http://mtmcclanahan.com/ThePaintersTongue/autobiographical-works/feed/ 0 http://mtmcclanahan.com/ThePaintersTongue/mystery/ http://mtmcclanahan.com/ThePaintersTongue/mystery/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 00:27:22 +0000 MT McClanahan http://mtmcclanahan.com/ThePaintersTongue/?p=5382 By whatever means or images I am moved to describe it I’m convinced that mystery is my goal. I could call it a feeling--how I feel when I see a certain scene or imagine it; there is this overall felt impression that is indefinable and deeper than the things or shapes, though everything about the composition speaks to it. ]]> http://mtmcclanahan.com/ThePaintersTongue/mystery/feed/ 1