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Drip Drip Drip #2 Painting

Ed Buziak

France

Painting, Acrylic on Paper

Size: 30.3 W x 22 H x 0 D in

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I’d been shifting rocks and weeds in the garden for three hot, sunny afternoons… and as a creative interlude between cool drinks and forehead sweat-dabbing thought I would do a bit of “watching paint dry” at the same time. So, between shovelfuls of stone and refreshments I carefully planned, then experimented, with dropping diluted acrylic paints in various colours from my studio window to ground level, where sheets of 56 x 77 cms “Arches Platine” (at $10 a pop!) were lying in wait 4 metres below my outstretched arm. I have several near-empty 200ml tubes of acrylic paints which are squeezed and twisted hard to extract the last drops of pigment… but then, instead of throwing the empties away, I squeeze some air out and use the tube’s reforming suction to introduce a little water into their interiors, followed by a good shake to salvage any remaining – although thinned – surprisingly strong colours. The overall image of these drops of paint look quite casual in execution – after all, “action painting” was shown in the 1950s to be simply a matter of dribbling, dropping and splashing paint at random onto large canvasses by the late and now famous, if not equally notorious, American artist Jackson Pollock who, currently, holds the world record price for a piece of art at $148,000,000 for one of his canvasses bought privately a decade ago. However, in reality I find there is much contemplation and concentration required for this type of “instant art”. It’s not so much hesitation from lack of an idea, or fear of spoiling the paper or canvas; nor, for goodness sake, is it the typical response from many viewers who come out with the old line, “Oh, my child could have done this!” It’s creative selection and omission with a semi-uncontrollable medium – thick liquid dropped and squirted from four meters onto a fairly small target from that height. In fact I spent three days on each piece – they were done in tandem – because of the hours generally required for each spatter of paint droppings to fully dry before another colour was shaken, aimed and squirted. I also found that the thinner the paint dilution the more the radial splatter on the receiving paper surface, whereas a thicker mixture simply hit the paper and remained as a blob with no spreading traces of impact to show for it’s interrupted trajectory.

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Painting:Acrylic on Paper

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Size:30.3 W x 22 H x 0 D in

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Abstract artist... stock photographer... writer... plant-based... fixie-cyclist... minimalist... and easy going, I studied Interior Design at art college in the 1960s, then worked in the TV and film industry for more than a decade, before turning to photography full-time. Later I published and edited specialist photographic magazines on darkroom techniques for several years and continue to supply digital images to the world's largest photo agency from my current location here in France. However, in a hard working retirement I spend much more time and energy as an abstract fine artist working with all media from old-fashioned paper, pencil and paint to creative collage and canvas. Blog site : https://ello.co/edbuzz

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