Friday, December 18, 2015

Moving from sculpture to abstract painting

From my photographs of my sculpture, I inputed them on Photoshop and, after a lot of fiddling about, managed to use the "invert" tool and adjust the colour balance to create some very interesting imagery. The more obscure the picture, the more drawn I was to it.
 


From these, came a series of abstract paintings. To create these, I used a mixture of oil paint, methylated spirits and white spirit. 


white spirit, oil paint on canvas. 


white spirit, methylated spirits, oil paint on primed paper (gives a more vibrant richness to the paints)


oil paint and white spirit on primed paper





white spirit, methylated spirits and oil paint on primed paper





My workspace, including two other pieces in white spirit and oil paint, carried out on canvas.