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This is an original abstract pairing done in watercolor, ink, and acrylic on heavy watercolor paper. I painted the initial layer quickly in watercolor on paper that was already a little damp. On top of the watercolor I applied acrylic based inks, which penetrate into the watercolor slightly, but mostly produce areas of bright, vibrant and saturated color. I like to draw wispy lines with the ink dropper, pressing into the paper and making slight indentations which result in ghostly trails. I create a composition based on the interplay between lines, amorphous fields of color, and the negative space of the underlying watercolor. On top of all of this I used squeeze tubes to apply specially formulated acrylic paint—white, yellow, and black in this painting—into areas of wet ink. The ink has a wonderful way of pushing into the acrylic, and that's how I get those very nice gradients to form, which close examination reveals are composed of dendritic patterns where the ink pushes in like rivers gathering from mountain streams in reverse. I used a technique that involves soaking the paper in water and then taping the edges of the paper to a hard surface while it is wet. This stretches the paper when it dries because the fibers in the paper expand when they are wet and contract as they dry. This prevents the paper from warping or buckling while I paint on it, keeping the surface nice and flat. I cut the tape at the edge of the paper, leaving the part of the tape that was actually on the paper, resulting in a thin band of light brown along the edge of the paper. The actual dimensions of the paper are 10 x 7 inches, and the area inside the taped off opening is 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches.
Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper
Size:8 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in
Size with Frame:13.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in
Frame:White
Ready to Hang:Yes
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Blake Brasher is a visual artist who currently lives and works in Lowell, MA. He grew up In North Pole, Alaska, and also lived in Turkey, Texas, and Arizona before moving to Massachusetts to attend MIT. He earned a bachelor of science I. Art and design from MIT in 2003 and has also studied art at Harvard and CMU. He also works three days a week as a robotics engineer for Boston Dynamics in Waltham, MA and had a decade long career as a living statue in Harvard Square, Cambridge and other venues around the world.
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