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Auction Art – ZOOM & Thanksgiving –acrylics on canvas
Lot
141
In 2010, my divorce was finalized, the big
house sold, my elderly mother moved out into a retirement home, my Braun
recording finished… I still had my Tacoma pick up truck and could fit an 8 foot
canvas in the back.
I brought a store-bought one home (I
usually stretch/prime them myself) and went outside to shoot paint all over it
from squirt bottles, the idea being to make a good background for a large (4’ x
8’) landscape.
I started by splashing wet acrylic on the
canvas and spreading rapidly with big sea sponges, then waiting a bit for it to
dry and doing the next layer.
HOWEVER, the moment I finished the last
pirouetting, air-flung squirt of black
paint, I thought it looked fantastic. So
active yet so transparent. So I set it
up in the corner of the overpriced loft I was renting, resolving to think about
it before proceeding further. And it
stayed that way, becoming a backdrop for a photo shoot of a beautiful singer by a well-known photographer and the title work for the 2014 show.
So many people say they love it, and it has
been expensive. I also do not have a single 8 foot expanse of wall in my new
house. So it is in the auction and I hope one of the people who love it will
marry it.
photo by Dawn McLeod
Lot 140
I had a quiet day on Thanksgiving, 2010
before heading out to visit parents in different towns. I hand stretched a canvas and primed it, then
did a heavy layer of very soft, sky-inspired blues, grays and pinks…. Uncharacteristic
but I enjoyed it. Paused for a second,
then began writing quickly in the heavy paint, pouring out words of
thanksgiving to people who would have been shocked if the words were visible…
writing fast and furious, layers of sentences piling upon sentences until it
was a torrent of invisible lines. Then I
let it dry…. And went nuts with the brightly coloured paints in my squirt
bottles. So much for soft and subtle sky
shades!
photo by Dawn McLeod
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