Studio Time

I’m not really sure where this photo came from. I found it while digging through some gallery directories. I may have shot it with my tablet or something. I must have stripped the EXIF camera data.

This painting is oil on canvas and was originally much larger… 4×6 feet or so, and more complex, and… just didn’t work. It sat rolled against the wall for some time before I decided to cut it up. I cut the original in half, reworked it and mounted each side on wood (plywood or hardwood, one. I sold this a long time ago. I really don’t remember which.) The other painting’s about half this size. I did manage to cut out the elements that weren’t working for me and come up with two paintings that I liked.

That is one of the advantages of working with panels. This was on a stretcher. When you stretch stuff you lose several inches on the sides when you wrap the canvas around the stretcher bars. Re-stretching it would kill a lot of what I was trying to save. If you adhere things to a panel, you can cut your canvas pretty precisely.

It’s basically a sort of fantasy thing that’s generated from an automatic drawing. In the first version of this; the “Jack in the box” (That face you may or may not see in the upper left hand corner. 🙂 ) was much more clearly attached to the forms on the right side and may have looked a bit more like an actual Jack in the box. I think it works better this way.