Since 'Burning Bus' is an experiment I decided it would be the most willing of my current paintings to participate in vandalism. I used white house hold paint and after throwing it at the canvas I watched the paint drip and meander its way down the painting. I couldn't control the need to wipe away areas or encourage a wider spread of paint.... I also felt the need to throw thick varnish and turpentine at the canvas, the result being, areas of thinned out paint, which reveal parts of the painting beneath. I like the areas where the white paint is thick and obscures part of the work.
By trying to destroy this painting somehow I like it more...looking at the painting closely there are parts of the painting where the brush marks beneath the spalshes and drips have become more rich and emphasized next to the white drips, the overal painting seems more interesting and my eye is being drawn to different parts of the work due to the layers and the contrast in the marks and colours.
Detail of 'Burning Bus'
I feel like this painting might work turned around up side down!
By turning the painting upside down I am finding details within the work which draw my eye, the drips were pulling my eye downwards, whereas I now feel like I can move across the painting looking into it rather than down it. The area on the bottom right hand side of the painting is particularly interesting as I love the way the varnish has spread with paint and left thin washes of paint against the dark background, also small shapes of orange, green and yellow poking through next to white....Looking at small segments of the painting has made me think about cutting the painting up... perhaps I need to vandalise it further?
Details from painting of 'Burning Bus'.
