Sorry for the glare, but this is the painting hanging on the work wall right now. It is a student's discarded canvas, painted over with yellow spray paint. The stencil is an enlarged border off of a dollar bill (or some other denomination). I have no plan for this piece at this point, it is really just an excuse to use some spray paint. I am toying with the idea of actually doing some representational painting over the top of it. It might be inspiration from the Dolak studio. . . I'll try not to jack your style. We'll see what happens, I may just paint it white.
This is nice, I enjoy the complex pattern and ghosted image behind. Looking forward to seeing what you do with it next. How big is it? In a way could this be like a page from one of your sketch books? Obviously it's not a page or part of a book but something else on which you "doodle". I would imagine that sometimes you sketch something in your book just to do it, maybe it's fine just to do that with non-book format work. The fact that the support is salvaged is interesting too.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure of the dimensions, but it feels like about 50"x36" or so. It will probably just become one of those pieces that I just keep adding to until something happens with it. It might be an interesting evolution. One of the biggest problems that I have with sketching in a larger format is the weight of the line . . . sharpie (bolder stroke) almost works, but the scale of the imagery changes the quality of the drawing . . . we'll see
ReplyDeleteIt might not be that you have to change the scale of your drawings or sketches just because the scale of the piece is larger. Perhaps you just fill the entire thing with more sketchbook sized drawings? I think that ballpoint pen on this would look nice (not that you have to do anything to it), and since I am accustomed to seeing that a lot in your scans it would feel like a natural fit.
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