Rhizomatics (Cells, Words, Maps) Breakthrough Flow Lines of Fight
12″x 9″ Black gesso with rollar, pen and ink, white gel pen on #243 Borden & Riley paper
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Tag: Willard Art
#542 wip
B&W & blue 33″x 26″ black gesso on white with hint of blue, on Masonite with applied textures. THIS HAS SINCE BEEN WORKED OVER, AS #616
#541 finished
Affixed the frame to the canvas, painted over surrounding area, scrape-through lines and glitter don’t show well in the photo
#541Imaginary Landscape series
(Currently undergoing major alterations) 32″ x 30″ Acrylic on canvas, with roofing asphalt. Not sure about this. It’s a paint-over. The roofing was already glued to the canvas. Thinking, might add an orange glaze to the “sky,” and darken the water.
radical reworking in progress!
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Street Sketch 51st & Pine
#540 reworked
#540
#439
Cityscape 24″ x 20″ Acrylic on canvas board. Setting up the show at A-Space, and preparing with Street Medics for the DNC, eaten up my art time. (sold)
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#538 Rhizomatic series/cells/maps/words
#525 Cityscape series
32″ x 28″ Acrylic on canvas. Was working from one of my street sketches. The drawing and underpainting stayed true to the perspective. Then I was stuck. The natural direction was to develop it as a representational image. But that wasn’t at all what I wanted. I fussed with it for two weeks. This morning, the art show opening behind me, I went down to the basement and before I looked at it, I knew what was wrong: perspective. I had to flatten it, destroy the geometric depth. Extend the lines to vanishing points, extend them, let them define the space around the building, erasing the distinction between solid object and empty space. Take the graffiti from the wall of the building, and write it over the surface of the painting.
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