betterArts Resident Guides Us Through One Painting's Process
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by Jennifer Elizabeth Crone
Once upon a time on the Upper West Side of Manhattan I was walking to the train and found a 33x29 inch painting in a wood frame on the sidewalk, discarded with the trash. The painting, signed from 1961, was not much to look at, but a canvas is a canvas, so I took it home and it sat in my living room, butter side against the wall, for months. Until now.
The first thing I did was create this tree out of bits of the Robert Ludlum book The Matarese Circle, which I also found in the street in Manhattan. I ripped up pages and spent a few hours putting tiny pieces together to make the above tree and branches, affixed with gel medium.
Next I painted over the text to make the tree "move" or appear more dimensional.
After painting the tree I added an aqua color I mixed with terpenoid to create drips.
Next I did yellow...
And finally olive green.
Then I began to work on the background, putting more space between the old painting and the tree with its drips.
I then created a ribbon curling down the tree and appearing from off canvas.
And finally I added warmth and more dimension in the fog-like middle ground. That's the technical process, for the theory and intellectual bits, well I'll never tell.
Post originally published on Jennifer Elizabeth Crone's blog.
Once upon a time on the Upper West Side of Manhattan I was walking to the train and found a 33x29 inch painting in a wood frame on the sidewalk, discarded with the trash. The painting, signed from 1961, was not much to look at, but a canvas is a canvas, so I took it home and it sat in my living room, butter side against the wall, for months. Until now.
Next I did yellow...
"Street Art is Dead" oil and mixed media on found canvas, 33x29 in wood frame
Post originally published on Jennifer Elizabeth Crone's blog.
