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is the very first watercolor painting I made on a canvas. Normally,
if you use watercolors, you paint on paper. Creating this was as
much a revelation for me as anything else. Because of the nature
of canvas, and the way it holds and absorbs water, the very dynamics
of applying paints are different. So I was very much learning the
rules as I went along. The final layer on top was...yep, you guessed
it, liquid paper. Those little bottles really are great to have
around.
If
you want to try using correctional fluid, I recommend Kinko's Multipurpose
Correction Fluid. It's the best brand and the most versatile; it
also works great with water. The different brands will work differently.
Liquid Paper brand doesn't work well with water, but it has its
own style (see the Improvisation page).
As for the Wite-Out brand, I hardly ever use it; the quality is
roughly the same as Liquid Paper, which means it stinks. In short,
whenever I refer to "liquid paper," I'm thinking of correctional
fluid in general and the Kinko's brand in particular.
As
to the origin of the title, I'll refer to my notes on the b-side:
In Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of TIme (Shigeru Miyamoto's "Blonde
on Blonde" and the finest videogame ever made), there is a
point where young Link meets what is, essentially, the Mario Brothers.
It's a Roger Rabbit portrayal of the Mario Bros. as the people in
real life. Here, behind the camera, Mario is a lazy, shiftless bum
and Luigi endlessly toils in his brother's large shadow. Later,
when "Ocarina" shifts seven years forward, the tables
have turned, and it is Luigi who owns the family horse ranch (the
"Super Mario" franchise), and Mario has resorted to crashing
in hotels. Luigi, however, has become a self-absorbed prima donna
and a complete asshole. It is one of those self-effacing jabs at
his creations that makes Zelda 64 Miyamoto's absolute crowning achievement.
On
the flip side, I had this idea of writing these long essays or short
stories, and breaking them up among several paintings. That way,
you'd have to see all the paintings in order to read everything.
With this one, I think I was going to write something jokey and
silly, but I never finished it. The idea just didn't really pan
out, and my B-Sides were becoming more complex and visual. A text-only
painting is still an interesting idea, though. |
