Work has been progressing well, determined to use acrylic for these large works it is always a dissapointment when the quality of the paint changes in the drying process. Oil paint maintains its integrity and detail right through to dry. The plastic nature of acrylic paint is more pronounced, craters and bubbles in the surface are unique to this material. The quality is just different and capturing the paint wet photographically is certainly advantagous. The top image is one I am using in my catalogue. I am attaching wheels to these large works to be displayed on the floor. The height of each work will be determined by the wheel size.
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Did you use house paint Rowan? and did u stick with oil or acrylic? or both? or artists paints?
did u have sound going while you did all this?
I used to get so scratchy as an art teacher when boyz did this. celotaped paper onto the potters wheels and gave them a burl with the good derivan paints!
and here u are. doing this so seriously! what a spoilsport I was!
trying to work out how to do these tags. but so far they have rejected me so I am reluctant. got any tips?
Oh no not house paint I'm afraid this is the real stuff. I am using Golden Acrylic on gesso on this work and in fact this series. I prefer to use oils and have been consistenly using them however practically at this stage I cant afford the time to wait for layers to dry so a compromise I do love the Golden range, I use the extra heavy gel medium to extend and liberal quantities of glazing liquid to mobilise.
I am always using background sound as part of the performance, the potter's wheel is an embodied process for me where I can actually engage with the movement of the surface and the substance. I had the same reservations about using the wheel and then I discovered Hany Armanious so it all fell into place.
who is Hany Armanious?
and what do you mean by it being an embodied process?
The paint sounds and looks juicy!
The painter guy here who is doing Mum's house is doing such a good job. really nice treatment of all the surfaces. getting into all the little cracks. It's not gesso. Must find out what his filler is. Very nice surfaces anyway. Her place is really just a lean to onto a lean to onto a lean to.
Glad we are doing it up though. I would hate to see it bowled. classic beach place really.
Hard to let go. I read about the different aspects of homo viator last night. another conversation.
next time!
Hany Armanious is either a New Zealand or Australian artist and he has used the potters wheel and other clay based materials in his site specific scultural works.
What I mean by embodied is that when I paint on the potters wheel my whole body becomes part of the painting process. I get into a rythm with the turnng disks and I really like the physical action experienced in the process. Especially if the music is good!
The big disks have 6 coats of gesso as a ground and each one is sanded between coates completely smooth takes 24hours to do each coat and it is very physical.
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