The last time I was at AS220, a multi media art space and live/work community in downtown Providence as220.org/, I met two women who were working on an offset print project that involved creating a small book of family photographs. They let me look thru their stack and photocopy the ones I found interesting. The painting below is of one of the brother's proudly modeling his brandy new, 1970's era, patchwork pants.
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| Pic of full, finished painting taken in studio. |
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| After laying down swipes of black I sketched in the figure and then added blue tape to set up a patchwork pattern. |
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| The colors are sprayed in with various aerosals. |
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| The tie and ray designs were sprayed in using a handcut stencil (it's based on a favorite tie my dad used to wear). |
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| More aerosol |
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| After adding aerosol oranges I started adding Gamblin Paint Co oils mixed with Neo Megilp to keep the paint a thin wash. |
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| Originally, and based on the photo, he had his eyes open and a wide toothy smile - that was ahhhhhhllllllsorts of wrong. He looked like a late 1880's, racist's illustration of a black child. There was no way to convey hs excitement and joy clearly - the entire painting looked like it was a racist comment and devoted to challenging the viewer. Once I closed his eyes and toned down his teeth, he became a boy happy excited to show off his new pants. There are no photos of the original and ill conceived face - I was too busy trying to figure out how to stick to the reference photo and then got busy trying to make his face right to take any photos....wish I had regardless. |
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| The end face is absolutely perfect to me - just what I was hoping for. Crinkled nose, eyes shut tight, laughing. Easy breezy, colorful and fun. Not a social commentary just a painting of a happy tween. |
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| The shine in his pants comes from layering oils over aerosol. The aerosol is a tad thicker than usual and bc of the temp in my studio the oils dried oddly but the two mediums and odd drying produced the perfect effect for his pants. |
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| Oranges, oranges leaves and letting hopefully convey the feeling his (made up) wallpaper may have had. |
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| Pic of full painting taken in studio. |
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The photo of the two girls on the right is for another project but their faces helped me to reconstruct "Amboy and Charles" and bring him back to being a happy, happy kid. Video slideshow of the construction and development of "Amboy and Charles Street" from beginning to end: "Amboy and Charles" - oil on acrylic and aerosol on 36" x 48" canvas. Exclusively available thru: Eden Fine Art 560 Madison Ave., New York www.edengallery.com/ Call :(212) 888-0177 for details. |
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