After much research and experimentation throughout most of last year, I’m now beginning to actually paint this new body of work. My aim is to depict a recurring thought that I’ve had since I was a child, of an object moving through space in an impossible nonsensical way. I expect a bit of a struggle with the first few paintings as I’m still re-learning how to work with oil paints. The difference with oil paint as a physical material compared to acrylic is not the issue- I’ve been working hard to re-learn this… different grounds, mediums, tools, rules, textures… the results are already totally worth the effort: beautiful shiny buttery oil paint, a complete joy to paint with. Day and night difference compared to acrylics, definitely prefer oils. The part that is still giving me trouble is colour placement, it’s like acrylic colours (with vivid neons and generally wider choice) are the language I’ve been using to describe my ideas for the last 8 years, and oil colour shades/options are just a different language that I’m not yet 100% comfortable with. At least I know I was once comfortable with it, since I started out an an oil painter originally… so I just have to paint so much with oils that it jogs my memory. Colour and colour placement play an integral role in my work, so it has to be just right. Definitely feeling that as a pressure! Only one thing for it though— practice! I’ll only understand it further and feel comfortable using this oil-colour-language if I push through and paint. The thinking phase is over, now it’s time for action. Rinse repeat, paint paint paint 👩🎨 #emilyblandstudio #emilybland #abstractpainter #paintersgonnapaint #oilpainting #studiosid (at Berlin, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/Co2PHaoomTP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=