My canvas painting started out as a clear painting of a dancing girl, but finished up as a sort of silhouette.
My inspiration for this project was a critic's review on Andrew Warhol's paintings. The review was along the lines of "It looks like he just shot the canvas." When I heard that comment, I thought it sounded like a cool idea, so I filled some $1 squirt guns with watered down acrylic paint and covered some areas with masking tape and began shooting.
My first draft of the painting was made by sketching out a dancing figure on the canvas and covering the figure with masking tape and shooting paint on the canvas for the background. I took off the tape and shot at the bare canvas with a different color. The squirt guns made exactly the kind of texture effect I wanted. When I took off the last bit of tape, I found that the paint had actually bled through it and stained the canvas. Since I was frustrated that it hadn't worked, I filled the squirt guns with more paint and shot at the canvas with different colours, blindly.
I also ran into trouble with the paint/water mixture. The first time I tried, I had put in too much water and the paint was really thin on the canvas. I used acrylic for it's bright colour, and once I put more paint into the mixture, the colour worked very nicely.
The second (final) draft of the painting was a lot better. After attacking it with different colour schemes (cool colours over warm colours), I found it created a cool illusion of depth. The silhouette, though behind the paint, appears to be on top. The pattern is repetitive, since the squirt gun just created a splatter effect, but the colours gave it variety. Strangely enough, the white paint on top was the most dominant colour. It stands out clearly, like a white film over the painting. The repeating pattern of the splatter paint makes the asymmetrical painting look almost steady and symmetrical throughout the canvas.
GD:
I was resourceful before I started the project. I knew what kind of effect I wanted, but didn't know how to get it. When I heard "shooting the canvas," I started trying to find ways to mimic the effect of a shotgun on canvas, and finally found that squirt guns would do the trick. I was intellectually curious as I tried to find a way to make the painting so I would finally be satisfied with it. I don't think this piece represents the quality in my work, but how my work has changed through the year. My work went from simple sketches to simply laying paint on canvas, to experimenting with different ways to put the paint on the canvas, to finding a style of painting that I really enjoy.
My inspiration for this project was a critic's review on Andrew Warhol's paintings. The review was along the lines of "It looks like he just shot the canvas." When I heard that comment, I thought it sounded like a cool idea, so I filled some $1 squirt guns with watered down acrylic paint and covered some areas with masking tape and began shooting.
My first draft of the painting was made by sketching out a dancing figure on the canvas and covering the figure with masking tape and shooting paint on the canvas for the background. I took off the tape and shot at the bare canvas with a different color. The squirt guns made exactly the kind of texture effect I wanted. When I took off the last bit of tape, I found that the paint had actually bled through it and stained the canvas. Since I was frustrated that it hadn't worked, I filled the squirt guns with more paint and shot at the canvas with different colours, blindly.
I also ran into trouble with the paint/water mixture. The first time I tried, I had put in too much water and the paint was really thin on the canvas. I used acrylic for it's bright colour, and once I put more paint into the mixture, the colour worked very nicely.
The second (final) draft of the painting was a lot better. After attacking it with different colour schemes (cool colours over warm colours), I found it created a cool illusion of depth. The silhouette, though behind the paint, appears to be on top. The pattern is repetitive, since the squirt gun just created a splatter effect, but the colours gave it variety. Strangely enough, the white paint on top was the most dominant colour. It stands out clearly, like a white film over the painting. The repeating pattern of the splatter paint makes the asymmetrical painting look almost steady and symmetrical throughout the canvas.
GD:
I was resourceful before I started the project. I knew what kind of effect I wanted, but didn't know how to get it. When I heard "shooting the canvas," I started trying to find ways to mimic the effect of a shotgun on canvas, and finally found that squirt guns would do the trick. I was intellectually curious as I tried to find a way to make the painting so I would finally be satisfied with it. I don't think this piece represents the quality in my work, but how my work has changed through the year. My work went from simple sketches to simply laying paint on canvas, to experimenting with different ways to put the paint on the canvas, to finding a style of painting that I really enjoy.
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