This is a painting/collage I did for the New French Bar in downtown Asheville. Soon, it will join the rest of their collection of local art - as a tabletop, having beer spilled on it, cigarettes ground out on it, you know: the appropriate treatment for art. ;-) I've been a museum person for long enough where this thought both horrifies and amuses me. I get tired of people being all precious about art. You make it, you use it, it goes away - some things need a lifespan.
Actually I'm quite pleased with the way it turned out - it's a thoroughly new medium for me. Acrylic on wood and then collaged with images from the internet & from me, printed on transparency. There are a couple of my own photos, normal prints, also in there. I'm also really glad they asked me to do it, since it got me working again. It had been ages since I sat down and made a painting. Now I'm all fired up again and want to go get some Fredrix of Hollywood canvases (I hate making stretchers and then stretching canvas - hate it, hate it, hate it) and more ink for the printer and more transparencies (which are expensive as FUCK, why can't I have a cheap hobby like leaf collecting or something?) and make more, more, more!
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This is amazing, Fliss! I luv it! I had no idea you were so talented. I mean I knew you were a talented writer, beer drinker, and conversationalist, but an artist too!
I want to see more.
Thanks! Believe it or not, I actually started out as an artist - hell, I have a degree to prove it. Although I swear it didn't take and I still get to be considered naive. ;-)
I've always known you are this talented and I'm excited to see your work!!! I love the composition of images and movement of lines overlapping. If you would not have said, I would have thought you used your old favorite--oil pastels, over the images.
P.S. The redneck in me likes that red truck!
Looks great! I've got to check it out!
Wow! Cool work.
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