Sometimes I know what I want to paint before I create the multi-layered surface for the painting to inhabit. Sometimes I don’t. With this early piece I didn’t know what I was prepping the board for until a friend stopped by and commented on how “bound” the surface appeared to be with so many strips of canvas and wire rapped around it. Naturally that led me to a straitjacket which brought me to an escape artist which opened up a world of circus typography.
Ingredients: Particle board, wire, canvas strips, acrylic paint, bic medium pen, helpful suggestions and too many 100° days in the attic.