Studio cleared and ready for action!
Yesterday I just had to try spraypainting writing. I don’t have any history of spraypainting, so I feel out of context, but it’s worth thinking about. One of my (naive, perhaps) views of spraypainting is of people using it as a way to say something they cannot find another way to express. In Australia (maybe elsewhere) there are certain places in towns where it is officially allowed to graffiti, such as under particular bridges (and it brightens up otherwise dull, concrete spaces) I have breifly researched this where I live and find that very occaisionally small places are allowed to be graffiti’d, but under supervision, and apparently is no longer being done!
My spraypaint writing is on canvas coated with gloss paint and actually I’d like a glossier surface for this so I am putting 2 coats of white gloss on a peice of wood, so it’s ultra flat and smooth.
I’ve also been re-using skip-found canvas, two smallish pieces have been coated with black emulsion and I’ve written on those, using a different paintbrush on each and variably diluted white acrylic paint.
One of my paintings (larger black) from a previous project I’ve coated in black emulsion. The work underneath is highly textured and then writing over that in white acrylic, over the bumps. The ‘listening’ in my work is now taking the form of paying attention to the surface I’m writing on.
I’m keen on getting some momentum going, while I have a couple of weeks as during the summer I will have limited hours to work.
