Sorry for all the shitty quality pictures, the lighting In my apartment is rather shit. So I figured that if I took this outside, it would show more of it's true colours. The video that I posted didn't have the true to life colour quality that I hoped for.. but you got the point of it right? kind of like a look at me painting kind of thing... haha well I hope that you enjoyed watching me work and that you enjoy looking at my artwork. More will come, I promise.
This is the painting style that we learned in intro painting. This is the typical "NSCAD" painting style. This style of paint application relies on the use of bigger brushes and blocking in with colours, I did some blocking in but normally you would start by blocking in with acrylic paint with a set of tones to work off of, but for this since I used a recycled canvas instead of starting completely fresh. I painted over a painting from my fall semester that I wasn't happy with, one that you see in my older blog posts of my final project( the string doll thing) yeah, I wasn't happy with that painting at all, and I really wanted to reuse that canvas. when you recycle a canvas, expecially one that was already painted with oil, you can't paint over it with gesso, or acrylic. Since those paints are water based it would simple crack and flake off. So to fix it, I painted over it with white oil paint, covering up the areas that needed it the most.
I've been drawing a lot of bird skulls lately, so I figured I would paint one on this canvas. The skull itself is placed on the left to suggest a sense of "more", if that makes sense.. It when an object is placed on the right, it generally suggest an end, we start by looking at the left, then are eyes come across to the object, and then it stops. When an object is on the left we start at this object, and then our eye is drawn to the right, and suggest endlessness.
Do you get what i'm saying? anyway.. time to draw something else.
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Started painting on a recycled canvas. I'm also filming myself painting this for my youtube so hopefully it should work out nicely.
Do you remember that painting of those string voodoo dolls I painted last fall? well I decided to paint over them. I couldn't stand looking at it anymore. The other painting that went with it, thats still around, but this one just made me angry looking at it. It may have been how I painted it, or the fact that I felt that it was just a failed piece of work. But anyway, I've decided to paint over it, now since it was painted rather thickly... I had to cover it up in such a way that those ridges don't show, or at least don't show as much. So I invested in a painting squeegee.. haha so simple a fix huh. Not really.. I have to wait for the oil to dry.. and now that is driving me crazy.. all this waiting.. ugh I just want to paint. You're probably wondering why I didn't just use gesso or acrylic to paint over it.. well oil and water dont mix, and if I used gesso, or an acrylic to make a new base on an old painting, well it would just start to peal off and be rather gross.. though I have done paintings in the past that did look rather interesting with that "technique" but I would rather this painting look good. So at the moment, its drying.
My other painting, the one with the tree mushrooms? remember that one? well that one isn't finished yet. I'll eventually do the detail in the mushrooms and start to define the wood and add more things. I've been coming up with a concept for it. so it represents the deep unconscious. hence the forest feel to it. When I eventually finish it, I will make a more detailed discription/ analysis of the painting.
