Sometimes a girl just gotta have STUFF. Art stuff. Yummy papers. Things to cut up. To rearrange. To make bee-you-ti-ful pretty things to hang on the wall. Preferably someone else’s wall. Someone who pays me big bucks for the privilege.
Because this is NOT a hobby.
So I got me some pretty papers. Then I rummaged around in the closet and came up with some canvases that I’d done one thing or another to at one time or another. Half finished paintings from another creative lifetime.
Acrylics. I haven’t worked in acrylics, straight acrylic on canvas, in quite some time. Oils are my passion now. And wax. Craft acrylics on plaster. But straight painting of acrylic on canvas? Been a long, long time. And the stuff I did then was so different than what I do now. Night and day different.
So I took those canvases and approached them as I do oil and wax. I decided to work the surface. Paint. Roll. Scrape. Paint. Scratch. Scribble. Over and over and over until I came up with surfaces I was pleased with. I wish I had taken some ‘before’ photos. Didn’t think of that until I was well into the ‘after stage’.
But here are the ‘afters’. Not the final afters. Because I started out with collage on the brain and these are for background. Here’s a few closeups.
I’m thinking these will morph into a collage series based on paintings I used to do of women and animals. But who knows what they’ll morph into. Tomorrow will tell. Check back in then and see what happens.