Just been continuing playing with paint this week. I did lots of tearing paint off of the plastic surfaces to leave ragged edges, and also folding up sheets of plastic and paint and collaging it. Making layers with paint and then removing parts of these layers made up a large part of last week. I’ve been working with a ‘control layer’, followed by a ‘expression layer’ followed by further ‘controlled layers’ and so on. Sometimes it seems to work, other times it looks terrible.
I don’t feel the need to scale back up again yet. At first, it felt a little false making work on a smaller scale, but as long as I see these as just experiments, that is ok. When I scale back up again, maybe I’ll feel liberated.
The images here are some of the more interesting test pieces. Using varnishes and glazes and then tape to remove and tear the semi dry paint has been fun.
