Now comes my favorite part. This is the part where i start putting down the first initial pass of color. Sometimes I attack the canvas all at once but with this piece (partly because it’s so big), I focusing on one area at a time. I’m not going to polish anything yet, just going to get the color and shapes down.
So now that I’ve gotten my ground down, I start working on the composition. This time around I’m using charcoal to figure out the composition. After many failed attempts, I’ve come up with something that I want to move forward to the next stage with.
I’ve always loved seeing other artists’s process for creation. To that end, I’ve finally decided to post the process on one of my paintings. I’m currently working on a 6 ft x 4 ft piece and I figured it was as good as any to document the process on.
1) After stretching the canvas (which took a lot longer than i wanted to), I broke out my big bag of collage pieces. I used lots of gel medium and water to put them down. I had some idea thematically what I wanted to do but generally I didn’t sweat the placement too much. I like the happy accidents that can occur, plus i will end up painting over a lot of it.
Casey Burns, Keegan Onefoot and myself are having a 3 man show in Portland @ the Compound Gallery from January 8th - February 1st 2009. Reception: January 8th @ 7pm.
Here’s a few of my pieces that will be in the show:
