it becomes a painting

Monday, July 23, 2007

I haven’t truely painted in a really really long time. Almost about two years now. I’ve done ink drawings and washes but that’s not painting. I haven’t squeezed paint out of a tube in a while. It was scary at first. I created a drawing and was like, now what? I never really know where it will end up. Hopefully, in a good place where I can smile and laugh at myself and be proud of what I just created.

Anyways, this painting was created using gouache and watercolors. I first painted it on smooth white bristol paper, but the white of the paper made it seem too stark, so I scanned the entire painting and layed it on a scanned image of kraft paper. It just gave it a little something, more texture and color. It sort of looks like chinese silk embroidery.