I think that my last piece of art work needs some varnished areas. I also think that it would have benefited from some colour and texture in the preparation of the canvas.
I have just started my next piece of work in the studio. I used emulsion and acrylic paint aswell as black powder paint, ink and pencil in the preparation stage. I drew into the wet emulsiuon paint with pencil, using my left hand. This is a technique used by Cy Twomby. Twombly drew with his left hand in the dark in order to imitate the direct simplicity he found in childrens drawings and primitive art. I have also used my fingers, Cy Twombly thought that using his hands in a painting directly linked him to the art of prehistory.
Varnedoe, K. (1994) Cy Twombly: A Retrospective. New York: The Museum of Modern Art.
I chose to work on a large canvas so that I could be immersed in it and use the full extension of my body in mark making. The large canvas is also better for emulating a wall or rock surface.
I like the way the shadow from the window plays out over the canvas in the first image, it looks like a primitive stick man.
