Making Your Own Work: Week 14

This week I am stilling working on the third painting. With the way I have been applying and scrapping the paint is creating linear lines of colors giving it a geometric feel. I don't have much reflection on this one as it is still in the beginning stages. I'm still not exactly sure the outcome for this one and just allowing each step and layer to guide me as to what to do next. I do however plan to continue with scratching on a figure on the final layer to keep with the hidden image of the figure seen in the previous one.

Making Your Own Work: Week 13

The top photo is of the second painting I've been working on with the hidden figure within the abstract. I'm taking a break from this one as I'm not sure whether or not I want to add more hidden information to it. The bottom photo is a new painting started this week. With this one I want to start the process of the abstract differently than the others to see whether the abstracted marks would come out differently. I started with mixing colors and scooping globs of them on to the surface. Then took the squeegee and scrapped the globs around allowing the squeegee to pick up the paint and making the marks across the surface. This resulted in more lines of colors.

Making Your Own Work: Week 12

This week I wanted to continue with a conversation between representation and the abstracted. I began a new painting similarly to the other one. I created an abstract by still adding paint to the canvas and using a squeegee to wipe it away. I continued doing this in three layers. The final layer ( not shown above yet) I will draw on a male figure with a pencil cutting into to the paint leaving a mark that is legible yet is hide within the abstract. I choose to do a figure on top because to me the human figure is a concrete form that can contradict with the abstract already produced.