Lately Ive been hitting a wall while painting. I feel as though Im just going through the motions and staying in the safe zone. Some hurdles and obstacles have been needed to help me stretch my creative legs, and I may have found them.
I stumbled upon a technique thats bringing more voice to what I want to do and creating an atmosphere Ive been looking for.
For a while Ive been thinking about painting over a screen (the type you'd use on a porch door or window) to see what kind of pixellated image it would leave on the canvas. Turns out the screen itself mixed with the canvas underneath creates a weird holographic effect, especially when held 1 to 2 inches away from the canvas.
These photos are taken from the first of which I hope to be a series of paintings using this technique. I created a shadowbox of sorts around the frame to suspend the screen about 2 inches from the canvas. The painting was inspired by some pictures I took of myself when I had the flu (swine perhaps?) this spring.
I might just call these SHADOWBOX PAINTINGS......
Oh yeah, and Ive begun to use spray paint, which makes me feel just a little bit closer to being a graffiti artist--which Ive always dreamed of being, but was too chicken s@%t to actually do because Im afraid of getting busted.
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