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
It’s been a while, but last Friday I went out with the intention of taking some photographs in the street and dropping in on Tate Modern.
Whilst I’m always on the lookout for a potential portrait, most of my time is spent collecting images of splats, scuffs, drips and abandoned carrier bags to form the basis of a digital construct.
The following were all taken last Friday…
Solid fuel tank?The Millenium Bridge from outside Tate ModernOcado waste
In Tate Modern, I decided to concentrate on paintings in the main displays. I’ve been familiar with The Three Dancers by Picasso for decades, but I’ve never really looked at the surface of the painting close up.
I found this area:
fascinating. I guess I’ve always thought of Picasso paintings springing into the world fully-formed, but he obviously had problems resolving this patch…
This was my first time seeing White Plane White, 1974 by Bram Bogart as well, but I’m glad I did…
White Plane White, 1974 by Bram Bogart
In one of the rooms housing a large sculpture, I found the following stain. It must have been quite a hardcore chemical to have bleached the stone floor like this. Anyway, I love it…
In the process of backing up a load of files, I found this run of images. These are the working “drawings” for my painting December. They are in chronological order so you can see how the image developed over time (a month or so?).
All the photographic elements are things I found in the street or in shop windows. Who is that masked man? It’s a process of accretion and deletion…What to keep and what to throw away?
And here is the final painting…
December, acrylic paint and watercolour pencil on canvas, 80 x 80 cm, 2018
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