Daxterpieces: Oil

Friday, June 15, 2012

butter field

Recently, I often buy canvases second hand. I go to goodwill and find paintings to paint over. It is not only cheaper to buy canvases this way, but a fun, warped collaboration with strangers. When I do this, it is always my goal not to destroy the prior work, but to integrate my own ideas into it, whilst maintaining the integrity of the original in some way.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Reaching Out

This piece is very interesting for me, for a number of reasons. First, from a process standpoint. Last spring/summer? I had this completed oil painting, which I really liked. I asked Deet if she wanted to paint over it. WHile it was still very wet, I handed her a house painting roller. She rolled away, eliminating the painting that once was. I think she felt bad about this, but I found it inspiring. What it was to become was something much different than I could have created otherwise. For months, I would look at this piece, seeing all kinds of things in it. I would just add tiny marks here and there, mostly just to accentuate the already interesting textures. What I see in it now is a constantly shifting image. I didn't want to put anything too definite, subject matter wise, in this, so that this effect would not be lost. Every time I look at this painting, I see something completely different. It really is cooler to see this effect up close/ in person, as I don't know if the dimensionality will translate digitally.