Medium: Acrylic Paint, White Gesso on Kraft Paper Size: 4ft x 5ft
This is an abstract piece that I did during an painting workshop. The concept was to just try things that we had not done before. It took me a couple minutes to try and figure out what I was going to do and was struggling when I decided to just dip my hand in the gesso. As the gesso dried on the paper, I used tubes of paint to color in the negative spaces left between the handprints. I held the tubes of acrylic paint as if they were a writing utensil and lightly squeezed as I drew and colored in the areas. (That action was inspired by some of the artwork that Jackson Pollock created that pre-drip painting.)
Only one handprint is completely outlined and I'm still not sure that I'm happy with doing that, but I also think it was the starting point for color on this piece.
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