Tuesday, May 18, 2004

A Year Later...

Ok, finally finished the first of the new paintings I've been working on (very intermittently) the last month or so. It?s a pair of paintings to be exact, on canvas (each sized A4.) Funnily enough, I know it?s a year because I remember completing my last painting on the night of Eurovision (I painted whilst Mrs Dio watched...)

A complete reversion to the ideals of my older experimental works, the pair of paintings are mixed media. The concentration is on surface textures, rhythm, obfuscation and composition.

A lot simpler and abstract, I'm hoping to tap a market for cookie-cutter 'Changing Rooms' type art pieces (yuck!), whilst satisfying the experimental urges I enjoy and hopefully bringing some integrity to the mix. It looks like people are buying lots of naff art from Ebay to decorate their walls, after watching these home makeover shows. I'm happy to exploit that market but there has to be something of interest there in the making for me to do it. I will get them up on Ebay tonight.

As for materials, the photographic elements are inkjet prints transferred with Dylon Image Maker. The other materials are acrylic, PVA, graphite, charcoal and varnish. Here are the pair side by side, followed by larger versions of each.

I have two larger pieces on the go at the moments, with flower prints, hopefully I can pull them together over the next couple of weeks.

Posted by Dio Bach at 10:35

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