Work in Progress--Credit card painting

[Null]

Well, this one is still untitled, though, ahem, it kind of looks a bit Hellish, doesn't it?



Oh well, I suppose one can't really be judged by one's unconscious....

[Equatorial]

Do you mean it is credit card size?

[Null]

It was started using a credit card as a "brush." I learned this on another forum--put pigments on a canvas, then take a credit card (or other plastic thing, or, even better a credit card with a big balance on it) and scrape the paint all around.

That's what I did with this one, then I went back in and detailed what the card had wrought. (So it's not ALL my fault, much.)

(Somewhere I have some preliminary photos, if I can find them I may post them.)

(The actual size is, um, 16" x 20".)

[Equatorial]

Oh, I see.

How different is it from doing oil painting with palette or painting knifes?

[abouttime]

Good morning Null. Actually this is very interesting, intriguing effects you can get without a brush.

I tried the same thing a long time ago, but just used (I think rough small brushes and the thin handle of a small brush) to push the paint around ....here is my effort...It is really fun to play with for different effects.....

[thistle_dew]

Null this is awesome!!!

I spent most of the early '90's in credit card hell along with several of my friends and this painting feels like that.

I remember once I used an over the limit card to scrape my windshield.

I hope I never fall back into the credit pit.

[abouttime]

LOL Been there, done that Thistledew....

[Vivamis123]

Null: It doesn't look like hell to me...the people are too relaxed...more like spa. I like the painting and idea of using a credit card. I will HAVE to try : )

Marley, Marley....what can I say? I am speechless. I LOVE your painting. I will have to try that too : )

[thistle_dew]

I know I have a terrible sense of humor so please forgive me Viv but that painting looks EXACTLY like my hell. At the time I was in all that debt I was working at a lovely Day Spa and I was stoned or drunk 101% of the time so I was very, very relaxed in my own little personal day spa of hell.

[Null]

That's a lovely image, abouttime. It looks a little like...erm, what's the term? Mezzotint? Something like that.

As for how credit card painting is different from pallette knife, well, I haven't done anything with pallette knives so I'm not sure, but I think there's not as much control. It's a bit more like decalcomania, but not quite as uncontrollable as what Oscar Dominguez did. So there's chaos, but a kind of nice and friendly chaos. What I've always wanted anyway...

[abouttime]

Well it is definately worth entering in a Competition.

I have just had a curiousity hit me, or rather was a nosey thought

I was just wondering how many of you'all belong to Artist Groups that have good Galleries for you to enter your work's in?? Artist organizations in your home towns??

[Scout123]

I think the difference between a credit card and a paIIate knife if about the squeegee, scraping effect with a credit card and the pushing , speading effect with the knife. I Iove and use both.

NuII, your creation of depth aIways impresses me. And I Iove sepia!

MarIy, your painting is wonderfuI too. I Iook back at some of my oId paintings and wish I couId burn them.

I don't beIong to any groups. I don't Ieave home much. Sometimes groups Iike that prohibit you from things by onIy aIIowing a certain number of artists in the group to dispIay. And they get to choose who. I have been in exhibitions I might not have been chosen for by the group, but got into on my own. So there are pros and cons to everything. You do get more exposure in some ways. Scout

[abouttime]

Ok, I think you hit that on the head also. I have belonged to a pretty prestigious group in Winston-Salem for almost 2 years. BUT find it tremendously clicky and you can tell the influence of the wealthy are well intrenched into the influence of the group also. I have a lot of my work accepted in Juried shows and regular exhibitions within the gallery, however would pass out if more then two people knew and acknowleged my name, yet my work gets in, but very little goes out of this Gallery in the way of sales. You reach a point where you feel YOU are supporting the Gallery, not they helping to support your work....

[Null]

I'd love to belong to a local arts group, if only to keep the fires burning. Alas, there's only one in Asheville which meets infrequently. You'd think with all the hippies here there'd be dozens, but nooooooo....

[abouttime]

Boy maybe I spilled the beans Null.... How far is Ashville from W-S...we have been here just 4 years and I don't think your that far away are you?? Is Ashville where the Biltmore Castle is??

[Null]

Winston-Salem is about two hours away by car (if I drive like a maniac). So it's not un-doable, it would just be hard to do it during a weekday.

Yeah, the Biltmore is in A'ville, midway between where I live and where I work.

[abouttime]

Beautiful State you have here, an Artists paradise for landscape....

[Scout123]

AngeIa, you can aIso cut those credit cards up and use them!!! You can make some interesting patterns with grooves you cut out of them. Scout

[pfranklin]

oh.... don't cut up those credit cards. Send them to me and I'll use them. I could use some extra credit.

[jburnett]

I've never been to a spa. The idea of random people touching me alarms me somewhat. That and the treatments would probably send me into anaphylactic shock. Minor detail.