primal scream Painting

This work spent many years being another work, before it suddenly joined the unpaintings. The unpaintings are the paintings that are done with my special technique, which I call unpainting. More obvious a conclusion could scarcely be reached. It involves applying watercolour paint to surfaces that have been prepared with acrylic paint, which, although the paint dries stable enough, (always have to watch out for the dreaded greasy spot) if it is re-wet, it can be re-liquefied and moved or removed. And yes, that is a tedious process. It involves carefully applying water very precisely, with small brushes, then cleaning the brush and drying it on paper towelling, then dabbing the wet paint off, into the brush, then cleaning the brush and drying it on paper towelling and rinse and repeat. Some pigments are easier than others. This is Sennelier, la Aquarelle, Cinerous blue, which is actually a mix of pthalo blue and titanium white. (I got it as a sample, a very generous packet which has served for many a work.) Pthalo blue is actually a difficult pigment, but the titanium white helps and I consider it moderately staining. However, if the surface is sufficiently sealed, as is this particular one, it is very removable. As I already mentioned, the artwork that you see was previously an artwork very much more minimalist. It is possible that I don't have a visual record of this work, which was in my paint room perched up high for at least the last five years. It was painted in acrylic paint and then coated with several layers of clear acrylic. The substrate is recycled cardboard, it is in fact a Hoya promotional card folder thingy. This year I suddenly saw it's potential to join this series, which I am putting up here very disjointedly and excruciatingly slowly and painfully. Like having teeth pulled. Sorry me and any fans I may have. The must be some, I often see people have looked, and then passed on by. But someone must like something surely :) This work could probably be interpreted as a cry for help, but it is actually not written there. Not once. No letters are. You are fooling yourself, or I am fooling you, if you think there are. As with all of these works, it is the negative space which is painted, or in this case unpainted, which adds an extra layer of mind bending to it.

Painting:Watercolor on Cardboard

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:19.7 W x 9.8 H x 0 D in

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