This was my final for Acrylic Techniques and the method for this one wasn't so much technique as it was experimentation. Our goal was to use materials and work in ways that we've never worked in before, and the professor showed us videos about collage and painting on different surfaces. We also worked with a lot of stamping and gels and things like that. Quite the marshmallow project.
I've been wanting to expand the first idea I had come up with for the David Lynch's Hat album cover since the summer, having already finished the second idea. So I came up with a couple designs (we had to have at least two or three finished pieces that would work together as a series) and focused more on the cubist nature of them rather than the photographic poloroid-esque feel of the first draft. What I ended up with was a energetic strangulation scene, or a gross struggle between hunter and prey. Obviously because metal music makes me want to be violent towards people. No, its' just because the angular nature of the shapes really supports the idea of conflict and aggression. I kept with the idea of using random tidbits of realism on top of these new geometric shapes:
The final piece ended up being extremely time consuming, and the foundation for this particular technique takes so long to set up that I most likely won't pursue it in this particular fashion in the future. I ended up painting the background first with a sepia tone, then I took cut black-painted strips of vellum with white stenciled pattern over top and pasted them in the background, like an explosion. Then I cut pieces of "complicated paper" (collage-like newspaper and magazine clippings) and pasted them into the vague shape of the figures. I then painted on top of these papers to make them look more three dimensional before finally flailing ink sprays onto the canvas. What you see is what you get:
As I said before, making all of these surfaces and papers took days to complete, and it all had to be done before organizing them onto the canvas and actually painting on them. I'm fairly pleased with the final outcome, however the paintings need to be sealed or something because they're just too three dimensional (literally) that I fear pieces will soon fall off because of bad adhesive. I just remember the class complaining about this project more than anything, probably because it forced them to work in a way that they'd never consider normally. And I don't blame them, yet I also learned a lot.
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