Abstract, 30" x 40", stretched canvas
This is another piece in my exploration of hand prints, almost as an answer to my Dear Dad series. I've been playing with my own hand prints lately, stacking them in the same fashion as the Stacked Journaling featured in the Dear Dad series, and this is another expression of that playfulness.
This piece began with Stacked Journaling applied to the primed canvas with a thick, black Sharpie. The Journaling became almost utterly obscured by subsequent layers which were fashioned by smearing my gloved hands with Golden's fiber paste and pressing them repeatedly onto a primed canvas. After the paste dried, many layers of acrylic paint washes were applied. Buried about halfway in is a second layer of fiber paste hand prints, as well.
While this work may appear to be fairly aggressive because of its color palette and composition, it doesn't feel that way to me. This was a fun, joyful process that felt far more unselfconscious than some of my more recent, genuinely darker stuff.
Happy creating!
3 comments:
Joyful -- that's the right word. Whoever immerses into bright, pure colors will never understand why they are sometimes called "aggressive". On the contrary: In the Tibetan Book of the Dead, bright colors are a symbol of peace and fulfilment, the path to enlightenment, whereas dull, grey colors indicate lower levels of consciousness, down to the agony of hell which is symbolized by smoky grey.
Really interesting texture!
Eva - The Tibetan info is really interesting since I like bright colors!
I absolutely LOVE this!
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