Monday, September 12, 2016

Tugs


I rode the Scrambler up to Belfast and painted the tugboats - experimental approach - acrylic on 9x12 red primed OSB. Had Egon Schiele's "Houses On The Town Square In Klosterneuberg" in mind when I started but this ended up nothing like it. Didn't like it much at the conclusion in Belfast but found some redeeming qualities back in the studio.

I keep trying to make acrylic work for me - I just can't seem to get happy with it.

3 comments:

WILDSIDE said...

Well, I for one, like this. After your experience (with my abundantly odd commenting; both deleted and undeleted), you may not think I'm picky, but I am!

Acrylic so much easier to deal with, but watercolor more satisfying...

And happy to see you're still at it. Selfishly, would hate to see someone with your talent disappear...

(Don't know what "OSB" is?)

Ken Foster said...

Thanks, WS! I don't know if acrylic is easier to deal with. It dries so quickly, is slippery and looks like plastic when it's dry (because, well, it is...) What do you like about it? It does clean up easier than oil and not so smelly...

OSB is oriented strand board - "a type of engineered lumber similar to particle board, formed by adding adhesives and then compressing layers of wood strands (flakes) in specific orientations." That's WIKI, not me... :)

WILDSIDE said...

Well, I'm no artist, so I'm probably talking about quick drying time and ability to easily clean up and paint over what ever was there before... (This I've done all in the past; been so long since I had a canvas and picked up a brush! Haven't had any requests to do so of late! [People used to commission me to come up with something creative, then go ahead and hang it somewhere where not as many eyes could see it -- like in the bathroom -- albeit a public one shared by many businesses! So I think they were humoring me...)

I like this one of yours for its abstraction... Much different than your normal style -- which is brilliant, BTW, and in my opinion you shouldn't change -- but what is life but for change?