Wednesday, December 12, 2012

My Last Critique



Louis Staats
"Untitled"
December 11, 2012 
4' x 3.25'

This piece is a combination of my two current focuses whcih are painting and sculpture. I like the idea of making a three-dimensional painting. I created my own plywood consisting of layers of Padauk, Purple Heart, and Bolivian Rosewood. I sanded away at my plywood with a grinder and a disc sander to create a surrealistic cave. I cut a hole in my masonite canvas and glued the plywood to the back side of the canvas in order to have the cave showing through. Now I am painting on the canvas to compliment the three dimensional cave. I am going to add caves to give the canavas a "swiss cheese look." I very much enjoyed this project and look forward to pushing this idea.

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