Using abandoned, pre-painted canvases as the base for my subject
Side-by-Side gallery of referenced works
Experimenting with acrylic paints on vilyl records
A photograph of myself next to one of my most challenging recycled canvas pieces. Portrait of Jack Whitman (Jason Schwartzman) in Wes Anderson's film The Darjeeling Limited 2007.
This piece's unique background was made by scrubbing out some of the previous artist's unfinished acrylic painting with hot water. The texture behind the woman's head was originally a dress the artist painted with gel medium. I painted over it and used the texture to create emphasis around my main subject to draw your attention away from the elephant in the room.
This is my social justice subject on ivory hunting. At first, I did not give the hunter a face because I felt that he didn't deserve one. However, keeping with my artistic aim to be unbiased, I left it up to the viewer to decide what he looks like and represents. This painting has an interesting rippled texture from an unknown medium. It resonated with me because it felt like a jungle pattern when I painted over it with white acrylic on a brayer.
I found a staged photograph that felt very cinematic to me. I painted the photo on a recycled canvas because I hoped to incorporate the previous painting into my own by having it visible through the windows and the washed-over green walls.
I loved this magazine collage background because of the various faces the artist used. I tried a monochromatic portrait in continuation with the theme. My portrait is of two characters from one of my favourite Wes Anderson films The Royal Tenenbaums.
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