| Just Paint, Mixed Media, Detail. Miss Jean Brodie scoffed at a sign that told all, “Safety First.” To her that was ridiculous, safety didn’t come first, art or love maybe, followed by knowledge and science and then much, much later on down her list came safety. In this work, paint comes first, it is all about the paint, all different kinds of paint in fact: oil, encaustic, paint sticks, acrylic latex, and spray paint. Then comes surface, paint is applied thickly, thinly, opaquely, translucently and transparently. Paint is not only added to create a rich texture, is is also removed by scratching, scraping, and blasting it away with jets of water. Next in importance is color, a palette of blues and adjacent hues with small hot accents unify the whole piece. Lastly comes shape, namely simple squares, organize and give structure to the otherwise free form paint that is not duty bound to describe form or narrate a scene. Pretty much “Just Paint.” | |
