Cardboard 1.
Blind Contour on cardboard
Blind Contour on cardboard
This collection of work was the product of a melting pot of inspirations as well as personal circumstances at the time of its creation. I painted most of these pieces while I lived in Virginia for a short 6 month stay, many of the subjects were of my friends I had left behind in Florida while others were that of idols or certain interests. The style was an experimental technique based from the often neglected but basic drawing exercise Blind contour, which is a practice taught to better understand the element of negative space in art and a very good hand-eye coordination exercise. The technique involves focusing on a specific part or outline of a subject and following that outline to create the basic anatomy of that subject. The final product will reveal a deformed and wilted version but it will also be negated of any possible error corrections, which is something I feel every craftsman suffers from when it comes to creating any work, the constant need to stress over fixing a current piece and forgetting to let go and just enjoy they're first draft of a piece.
I would like to be able to say the cardboard was chosen for reasons other than it was free to find and use but as it were, that was the only reason at the time of the first examples. As worked more with cardboard and created a small collection I noticed how versatile of a surface it was and how it was easy to spread paint on as well as transport and hang. It also gave the collection a look of honesty, which is something I feel is important to try and portray in art.
With the many folds, tears, sometimes holes the cardboard received before, and sometimes after I painted on them, it made my work have a modest and yet powerful aura with the vivid colors I used. My color scheme was inspired by one of my personal influences in art, Marc Chagall, which his palette seemed to contain colors only seen in dreams and imaginations. Many of Chagall's paintings were scenes of poverty stricken Russia in the 19th and early 20th century with a dusting of whimsical imagination and enchanting elements like blue cows, multicolored people floating in the air, and vermilion skies with azure clouds. For the past few years and for the many to come his colors are a staple in most of my work.
I would like to be able to say the cardboard was chosen for reasons other than it was free to find and use but as it were, that was the only reason at the time of the first examples. As worked more with cardboard and created a small collection I noticed how versatile of a surface it was and how it was easy to spread paint on as well as transport and hang. It also gave the collection a look of honesty, which is something I feel is important to try and portray in art.
With the many folds, tears, sometimes holes the cardboard received before, and sometimes after I painted on them, it made my work have a modest and yet powerful aura with the vivid colors I used. My color scheme was inspired by one of my personal influences in art, Marc Chagall, which his palette seemed to contain colors only seen in dreams and imaginations. Many of Chagall's paintings were scenes of poverty stricken Russia in the 19th and early 20th century with a dusting of whimsical imagination and enchanting elements like blue cows, multicolored people floating in the air, and vermilion skies with azure clouds. For the past few years and for the many to come his colors are a staple in most of my work.
