Jayyysus…I can’t believe it’s been nearly three months since I updated this!!! Big apologies as this is the one thing I always wanted to keep consistent. It’s been a busy couple of months but all in a good way and I often think that when you work for yourself, especially as a creative, you just tend to go hell for leather, that or either Catholic guilt…lol…
Anyways, I digress as I am bringing you on my Uisce Salach journey so I will continue… After completing the monoprints (see above), I knew then that I was ready to tackle canvas. Saying that, I hadn’t painted on canvas in years so the fear was real lads!!! What I did know was that I didn’t want to paint onto white canvas and by chance I had discovered some old paintings from my degree show that had slightly got damaged and back then I always painted the reverse from what we were taught so I knew I wanted to revert back to that- to paint on a completely dark canvas. That’s also what the monoprints were telling me- that the brighter, lighter more translucent colours sat so well and stood out when put on a darker, more sombre background!
BUT then, I found I had some used linen canvas boards (waste not want not and all that jazz…) and also what better way to put off actually ‘painting’ on canvas so I decided to experiment with them first!!! I knew I wanted a really deep but intense background and that is when I leaned on my older works and remembered that I had added linseed oil to give it a great shine and depth (a killer to dry though!!!)This gave me a great start to working on the deep edge canvas pieces and how I wanted to formulate shape and design within the pieces. I must admit these were hardest pieces of the whole project!!!
