
I’m currently working on this painting, which I’m toying with the idea of calling The Cacotopic Stain after a geographical area featured in a brilliant book by China Méiville entitled Iron Council.
The painting is based on a monochrome digital construct, which I’m transferring to canvas using acrylic paint and one paintbrush…

Once the image transfer is complete, I will improvise areas of colour and images on top. It’s a method I’ve adopted for the last couple of paintings. If you want to see more please visit my website: https://richardguest.art/ or my Instagram account:
@richardguest9440
Your work always proves fascinating.
Thanks that’s really nice to read! This one’s a lot of fun – slightly bigger scale means I can be ever so slightly more gestural at this stage. It’ll be interesting to see how that affects the improvisation.
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