| Okay,
confession time. This painting isn't made with acrylics at all,
but oils. A dear friend of mine brought me an old set of oil paints
one day, and I tried to mess around with them. Unofrtunately, there
wasn't much to work with, mostly reds and blacks. One oil painting
ended up being donated to a silent art auction, and the other one
became Easter 1999. If you look closely, you'll see that the color
in this piece is virtually nonexistence. There was some color added
with marker pens, mostly the grass and the eggs.
I
did not enjoy working with oil paints. They make a tremondous mess
and they smell like nothing else. Well, that's not entirely true;
if you've ever seen puppies being born, then you'll recognize the
smell.
On
the b-side, there's not too much except a group of tags, listing
my favorite Atari 2600 videogames from my childhood. Like I'm fooling
anyone; I have the emulator on my computer. For a while I was actually
interested in seeing paintings in that blocky, abstract style of
the Atari 2600. It would be interesting to see, from a pop-culture
point of view, but I couldn't see myself being enthralled with the
idea anymore. Maybe some of you should do something. |
