This is the first time i’ve ever used canvas. Yes, i’ve been to art school, but i avoided it there. I just didn’t feel ‘ready’, or maybe even particularly motivated to.
So how did this experiment in canvas turn out?
It was okay 
I enjoy working with pencil (which looks a bit funny on canvas) – ah, maybe next time gloss the canvas so the surface is mo smooth
also scrunching or origami’ing the canvas is… err.. yeh
all in all – it’s an option. but it has it’s limits. I think i could sell it – it’s the kind of thing you could put on the wall with ease, more in alignment with what people would expect visual art to be like. But if i cut through this canvas, suspended it from the ceiling, soaked it in a bath of red dye…. well for me it would be way more exciting but perhaps for a buyer, not so much
at least i know now what to do – scissors, red dye and suspension!
being precious is the death of art!
Tags: abstract art, abstract expressionism, art, colour, creativity, experimental, modern art, paint
