Introducing
my painting:
"Bonnie's
Beach."
12.01.2006
I always like to experiment with different sizes and shapes of canvases in my work. Lately though, I have been experimenting with painting on different materials as well. I tried my hand at painting on mirrors not too long ago, which was an exciting challenge as I tried to figure out how to make it work. This time though, I chose to paint on glass. I wanted to see what would happen if I left parts of the painting blank and allowed the wall to become part of the painting. I have also thought about hanging this in a window somewhere and seeing how the light coming through it would effect it. In both the mirror paintings and this one, I like how the environment that the painting is in changes the painting. It is a strange little surprise for the viewer as they realize that something is different.
I have been thinking about windows a lot in my work recently and I wanted to integrate this theme into my ideas about painting on different materials. So I bought 3 float frames and they sat in my room for a while. I wasn't sure what I was going to paint in them. Thankfully though, my friend Bonnie just moved back from Washington State and had a bunch of amazing photographs from her time there. The photo that struck me was of a little beach that she used to go to to pray. (The beach is in a place called Burfoot Park in Olympia Washington.) And wa la... a painting is born.
See this painting in progress here.
Detail of Painting.
