This is a WIP, though I shared it on my personal FB page. The register seems to have appealed to my friends so much so they overlooked the underlying compositional problems. Basically, the analogous harmony pushes the shapes apart, even though there are only two types, because it is not distributed properly.
Well, nothing for it: I’ll have to keep working!
When Rothko and Reinhardt went ‘dark’ back in the 60’s, they reduced their palettes to two, at most three colours; more often though their paintings consisted of different tones of one colour. Interestingly, their colours of choice were red, blue and purple. AND they reduced the number of shapes to one, namely a rectangle. I’m not suprised. A dark, almost black register can be surprisingly difficult.
I did succeed to a degree in this painting, which has a plethora of shapes/outlines, but follows Rothko and Reinhardt in their choice of colours, without black though – hmmm, can’t have everything, at least not yet:
The painting, which is new, is available on stretched canvas (90×120 cm) @$1,750.=
If you wish to purchase you can contact me on azizbasan25@gmail.com or use the WhatsApp button on my ContactInBio.