Posted by Atticus on August 31, 2004, at 10:13:22
In reply to Re: Atticus I want to tell you what I have done ab, posted by Jai Narayan on August 30, 2004, at 22:14:18
Hi Jai,
Actually, I'm going through the laborious process of setting up to do a painting that was inspired when I saw a Frankenthaler and a Basquiat hanging side by side in a museum the other day, and I wondered what it would be like to combine her type of prototypical abstract expressionist color field and vigorous mark-making with Basquiat's almost graffiti-like pictograms. Unfortunately, my apartment is so small and my easel so big that this involves dragging all the furniture over to one side of my living room in order to set up on a drop-cloth. And then comes the really tough part: scraping together enough money to buy the mucho expensive oil paints. As I paint large canvases, and very thickly, I require a lot of the stuff. But I'll get there; at least the canvas is stretched and ready to be gessoed. ;) Atticus, who'll be breathing lots of linseed oil and turpentine in the weeks ahead, so if he seems even more kooky than usual, please find it in your heart to cut the mad lad some slack
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