My final post for tonight/morning will be about a canvas I had created using the image of the angel I had created and discussed a few posts ago. This canvas, about waist height I had started by thinking how I would make the canvas stand out a little bit. I decided as it was going to involve an angel, I would tear up the bible and create a border around the edges using these torn parts. I also thought that it might be seen to question an audience into whether or not it is acceptable to rip the bible up, or whether it can be seen as a sin, I have been told by afew people that it could be seen as a sin. This is something which I want in my work, for people to question it and people to think about the images or sculptures, instead of just viewing something which is set out plain and simple infront of them.
To begin with I intended to make this image as a spray stencil, however the stencil had broke half way through creating it. So instead I decided just to paint the angel on using the image created beforehand as reference. I regret doing this as i would like to create more spraypaint canvas’s and I could have developed my skills in making the stencils if I had only spent a little more time on the canvas. instead I was impatient and painted it on, which gave the same image in the end only you can tell on a few part that it has been brushed on instead of sprayed. saying this, if I had to start again with the stencil I may have started a new project and forget about this one which I have done with other projects. So I guess its a good thing I finished this one, which is now one of my favourite finished peices I have created this year, along with the sprayed stencil angel resembling death. The background I had experimented on trying to make the canvas looking old, such as the bible is an old book. During my high school years I had always been told to use teabags to make something look old, so continuing this style I decided to experiment with something I had not done before, painting with teabags onto a canvas for a background. This was not a very good idea, althou it worked in the end. This is because the bags split half way thoruh and also create drip lines down the canvas which I had up against the wall. At the time I hated these drip lines but the more I see them the more they have grown on me, I now dont detest them and have accepted them as part of the work.
In the future I would like to create a few canvases of this style, the bold colours, only using more colours and layers, with using spraypaints instead of being impatient and using acrylic, something else to try in the near future.
