Yesterday I finally took brush to… um… resin… plastic… molded stuff… and started working on my piece for the Orillia’s Guitars on Parade. I’ll be working in transparent layers so this is basically the ground layer…
I’m working with small brushes because the texture and vocabulary of the look and feel is very much different to working with a large brush and just “blocking in” huge swatches of colour. There’s something appealing to me about the contrast of the size of the piece and the little dabs of paint… This is already creating part of the subtext for me… In some ways the process has to say something… and contribute to the meaning.
Though the finished piece will be subject driven I feel like the expressivness of the stroke will say as much as the image… albeit in a different voice…
