Today's piece is finally finished. I may add another coat or two of high gloss acrylic varnish to the center piece. I started this little project last October and worked on it off and on for the last 8 months. The core is Styrofoam and it is covered with cardboard, cereal boxes, some paper mache, gesso and acrylic paint. Like other artists, I have icons that I use repeatedly in my work. Mother and Child, Level Playing Field, the Butterfly Flag are just three of the more common ones. I will post a pencil drawing, titled My Icons and the first Mother and Child I painted in the late 1980's early 1990's. That piece with the wood frame that I made measures 72 inches by 48 inches. Today, I was at the museum and took a few pictures for my next project. This new project might take me another 8 months to complete, but that is the nice thing about being retired, there is no hurry. I plan to photograph the top piece and even offer signed prints later. The market for my political satire is very thin. It consists of a few friends and family members. But, this is what I do, and I enjoy it. There are some contemporary artists that only think up the idea and have other artists execute the idea. For them, I guess that works. But for me, the fun is the whole process. Taking the idea and then working out the challenges to bring the idea to life.
Neat segue to the England as Mother idea.
ReplyDeleteVery, very cool.