Since my last post I have been responding to the image of my stretched open mouth further. I recreated the image and completed this study from a mirror using acrylic and ink. I slapped ink on to the paper, I wanted the colour to be heavy on the paper to create a deepness like that of a body cavity.
I used a rusty red not a crimson like in my previous painting – and the result is more blood like. I used blue ink to deepen and contrast the colour.
Once the ink has dried on the surface of the paper I layered thick acrylic – It fascinates me how ink will run in to white acrylic. Even when it appears dry. I layered the white acrylic up and waited as it began to bleed the rusty red ink.
Sometimes I look at details of experiments like these and even some finished paintings and am so attracted to what lies on the surface of the canvas that I loose interest or rather the subject looses its pertinence because the paint simply says more…
