Howdy folks, this month on Arting-Out I walk you through the process of a new painting called, ‘Chasing your Tail’, for the ‘Personal Gods’ exhibition at Copro Gallery http://www.copronason.com/aug18_pr.html curated by Allen Williams.
In this vid I will take you step-by-step with me, getting warmed up with some Thumbnails.
Then we’re out the gate at the transfer stage.
We sprint into the Acrylic Ink stage. Layering gradients of glazes to build depth and describe form.
Leap on to the gold leaf stage. You know, for the bling.
Landing in the oil painting stage, where it is all about the fine details.
And we do a final dash to the finish-line, getting jiggy with enamel paint and stencils. Creating unifying patterns and some killer surface variety.
Hope you dig!
thanks for this, Scott!
You are very welcome. Thanks for taking the time to check it out.
So cool how you mash mediums together. Also how you leap between really controlled mechanics and free flowing experimentation. It’s an inspiration to go on an adventure! Thanks for sharing what you do Scott. Always look forward to your posts.
You pretty much described my approach perfectly. Controlled mechanics meets free flowing experimentation indeed.
Stunning piece and another great video! Thanks for sharing.
Right on Nico. THanks for the comment on youtube too.
This one might be my new favorite of your work. For crazy positions and anatomy I know a couple of dancers, circus people, contortionist. It probably wouldn’t be too hard to find the local dance community and get them to model for you. I know I at least would find that easier than trying to “break” anatomy and still make it look good. That you were able to do that so well BLOWS my mind.
Question, what do you do to protect a piece like this? I assume that putting a varnish over it would destroy the matte vs gloss effects that are going on.
Right, the varnish would kill the effect. So we let it exist as is! For me I think about varnish as a surface unifer, and a way to deepen the darks in a painting more than for protection. Also at one point I wiped down the whole surface with medium before the enamel stage, which will do some of what varnish would. Thanks for the thoughtful comment.