working again

I've finally found a studio, which isn't easy in this area. I've moved into a 3 bed house, I'm using the spare room as a studio. It feels good to be painting again. I've been doing some graphic work, cd cover and flyer for freinds and some drawing but no painting for some time. I'm happy with the direction of the work. I've been developing technique of using glazes. There is still much potential and unexplored territory here. The colours are becoming dirtier and have become warmer and richer in the paintings I'm working on at the moment. I have found that put colours straight from the tube yields better results. It is difficult to predict what will happen, but I am beginning to understand how colours behave when they are layered on top of each other. Painting in this way is a painfully slow process, allowing each layer to dry fully before moving onto the next. These surfaces appear rustic, heavy, downtrodden. I take these paintings many different directions before arriving at their conclusion, ripping them apart and pulling them back together again. I like the metaphor of an aged and battered surface, painted rusty metal. Of course it's not all about the aesthetics of the surface I am attempting to describe awkward and uncomfortable emotions, dark and complex internal struggles and battles. I don't know whether this comes across in thw work. Well, I'll carry on painting anyway see what happens.