Abstracts - Passages
By accident, I began painting acrylics with a single edge razor blade. Using that tool, I can incorporate the texture of the surface in the paint by pressing hard. A razor blade effect is very different from a pallet knife impasto. Working rapidly, wet on wet, I blend and scrape and scratch, rather than layer. Moving to larger pieces, I use wall-paper scrapers, window squeegees, drywall tools and old credit cards.
Some of the large works of Jack Whitten (1939-2018) and Gerhard Richter use long strokes with scrapers and squeegees to smear color. Gerhard often works in layers of oils of differnt dryness, benefitting and molding with ad hoc mixing of layers.
By accident, I began painting acrylics with a single edge razor blade. Using that tool, I can incorporate the texture of the surface in the paint by pressing hard. A razor blade effect is very different from a pallet knife impasto. Working rapidly, wet on wet, I blend and scrape and scratch, rather than layer. Moving to larger pieces, I use wall-paper scrapers, window squeegees, drywall tools and old credit cards.
Some of the large works of Jack Whitten (1939-2018) and Gerhard Richter use long strokes with scrapers and squeegees to smear color. Gerhard often works in layers of oils of differnt dryness, benefitting and molding with ad hoc mixing of layers.
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