Mowl
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No, I deleted it because it was off-topic.
Same with the music thread.
Off topic?
Deleted.
No, I'm on my balcony in the sun making art: today's work is a fourth layer using charcoal. The previous layers were, in order:
Water-soaked heavy-duty brown wrapping paper balled up and squished until the water's all gone, then carefully unraveled and a base coat of silk (fabric) paint and left to dry in the hot sun. Then glue it to the canvas and let everything dry out. Next up is another layer, this time of water colours which soak into the creases adding texture and dimension. Then leave that to dry and prep the new season baby potatoes for tonight's supper. Save the potato skins and soak them in an orange/red mix of water-based paints in a white emulsion, then pick them up in handfuls and drop them down onto the vertical canvas laying on the floor and swish them around vigourously creating an unpredictable pattern of lines and blobs. Before they dry, I drag a sweeping brush across them from the top to the bottom of the canvas. Then turn the canvas around one hundred and eighty degrees and begin the complex layer of charcoal creating a stark but intense group of lines and layers that begin to form a clear if scattered identity and when each layer of detail has soaked into the canvas via the now discarded wet potato skins, create another layer of even smaller detailing with the charcoal until the depth of the various layers creates a cohesive and 'living' image of, well.. ..whatever you want or like to see in it.
These are from the same series of new direction works I've been selling over the last few months.
They've very popular and I have an order to complete for one client who owns the same hotel I'm building the driftwood ladders for.
I also sell prints at a very affordable price for those with limited budgets: the prints are tweeked in Photoshop to enhance the colours and depth of field.
Any 'satanic shit' I produce, Jimmy - goes directly into my work.
Which is why this series of canvasses are so popular: everyone has a different thought/feeling/interpretation of what they see in the works.
The originals are expensive, but the prints are affordable.
So the originals will be framed according to the hotelier's taste and style.
I only have to provide the finished canvasses, no frames.
It's wonderful when you're happy in your work, isn't it, Jambo?
I mean, you must be very happy when the day's done and you hit the sack after posting all manner of crap all fucking day and night and calling it your job?
