Thursday, January 24, 2008

Inspiration from another artist...

And some photos with my cellphone...

I met an artist this weekend, an amazing man! He earned his living from painting without any education at all! I haven´t seen his homepage yet, because the ideas I got from speaking with him was enough! but you can watch it at Art See Ocean

He told me when painting in layers, to paint from dark to light instead,, and use a sandpapering machine to get to specific layers afterwords. He used about 7-8 layers in the paintings to get a texture..... So, I was really inspired and try different things now...

This painting is not finished, it´s 3 layers, black backround, gold and white, and a black layer on top, but it´s just the beginning!! there will be more light colors on this one later....



I have a 50 x 70 also working on at the same style but this is just a ground, it has about 5 layers, and much gold. I was not satisfied with the sandpapering process,, directly as I came through any colors, I came to the canvas,,,, I will buy a bottle today that makes the painting thicker. Then I will have a really thick black backround to sandpaper down to with my machine.



So I painted it all over again, at it will have more light colors later: