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Big Boy Painting
United States
Painting, Watercolor on Paper
Size: 60 W x 40 H x 0.1 D in
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Big Boy is a part of my Furies series. Twelve original pieces made during the volatile period in the first half of 2020 signed original, handmade paint made with funori, mica and pigment. The mica is electroplated with titanium and tin to create the light defying changing colors that is special to my work Please see videos of the changing colors and reflected golds at www.katie.gallery Designed with your pride of place space in mind, it can go vertically, especially in groups or horizontally alone for massive visual performance. The paper is 44x60 with a generous border I suggest keeping as a visual border between the painting and the presentation, and is part of the composition. Active image area is approximately 32x42, but please do not crop tightly These pieces do not last long before they sell and I often get frustrated buyers who waited before purchasing only to grasp the air as it sells to someone else. Please note I have listed these at 20% below my gallery rates and I'll keep prices here until they leave my studio midsummer to go off to gallery openings. I make these with my favorite clients in mind. I think about their spaces and I try to create a painting as a place of peace and distance over anything else that might be happening in their space. I want the paintings to be something that you live with and love. The first thing unpacked and hung when you move into your new space and something you and your family treasure. These are objects which become part of your heritage and something you pass down or give to a museum if the kids don't want them (I suggest the Whitney or the Tate, but I'm not partial ;) Of his brothers and sisters Big Boy is very capable on its own and I find he's mthe Head Boy of the group, not best, just the most responsible and one that the other paintings listen to and respect in a group composition. To the future owner of this piece, I truly appreciate your patronage and I would like to let you know this is an exceptional painting and I hope you'll send me pictures of it installed in your space. Thank you for looking at my work, there's a lot to choose from here and it means a lot to me that you linger on what I have made.
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Watercolor on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:60 W x 40 H x 0.1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships Rolled in a Tube
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My largest influence has been the tribe of artisans and makers who raised me up. I find Australian Aboriginal painters deeply moving because of my roots. Their commitment to the present moment, the idea of painting as a community story, is an important part of the process. I love the idea of the nothing that is the outback, and how painters there have created an industry for themselves out of the stories of their lives and history. My favorite, Dorothy Napangardi and the other Napangardi sisters, have a painted language that echoes through time. All of my watercolor paintings are mixed from pigment by hand, creating unique, one-of-a-kind hues. Pigments come from all over the world and are light-durable, synthetic, and non toxic whenever possible. In addition to gum arabic, the age-old watercolor binder, the pieces heavily use funori, a Japanese seaweed. Often used in archival book binding, the funori is used to lift and carry dense pure pigments over the paper with a unique body and flow not often seen in traditional watercolor. The paper is beautiful 100% cotton Coventry Rag Legion made, like the artist, in the early 1970s, and is uniquely able to take the process. It was created largely for Erte, and had a certain stability in the gold leaf he used in his work. How it handles the metallic pigments and the dense layers is why it is the preferred paper above all others for the process. The Fibonacci series is often used in my work to create patterns with the beauty and nuance of the numbers. The I Ching, with its patterns of lines coming forever down, up, and rising through the random noise to give us insight into the nature of change, is another patterning influence. The patterns are laid in using a latex white, and despite much experimentation, the best resist is still Jackson Pollack's favorite, housepaint. I also mix it with silk painting resists. This causes a ghosting and patterning around the resist, which is really beautiful and works perfectly with the paper. There is no right way to look at these beauties. Turn them around and upside down, I make them on a table that spins so the right way is your way. The mica pigments change depending on the angle and light you see them under. So let them get a little sun, live with them, love them. These aren't just paintings, they are life long friends.
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