Yesterday Sarah and Howard and I took over a studio in town rented by a collection of Wellington artists. Armed with large rolls of paper, some mis-mixed colours (mmmm,that raspberry really was inspired!) brooms,water balloons a 60 ml syringe( dangerously unpredictable but fantastic results) and a handfull of crapped out house brushes we tuned out from our preferred painting styles (or zoned in as the case may be)and worked collaboratively on at least half a dozen large pieces at once to the accompaniment of some damned fine music.
Sarah's attempts at paint bombs were scarily messy and we decided we might need to be gurilla (oh spellign where art thou ?) painters outside (or in some ready to be demolished or pre-renovated space) to get it right. She still hasn't got it out of her system - and neither have I. The broom almost worked but I needed more hip movement and more paint on the brush - a dustpan brush and Indian ink works better for the kind of marks I wanted. I think the upshot is that we'll do it again soon.
We looked at the results yesterday, as we put the borrowed studio to rights, and decided some were worth keeping, and some were great learning pieces which worked incredibly well when they were divided. Less is more and knowing when to stop when you're working at a large scale is still knowing when to stop !
I love the way Howard's camera/phone in all it's low tech glory has captured the movement - the stretching and the energy of the day.
Hi Adele,
ReplyDeleteWhen the art you are creating is so large on the floor... How do you keep sight of the whole image that you want...?a stupid question from a non artist who is trying to get her head around painting with a house broom...
Maureen...looking at the broom in a different way now
gorgeous stuff- what fun indeed!
ReplyDeleteIt's hard Maureen,(and not a stupid question at all!)we worked on a whole lot of pieces all at once and we went round adding to each work in response to what we each felt the artwork needed, working quickly and from the gut. I totally over-cooked my one that I worked on by myself because I thought about it too hard and for that very reason, that it's hard to maintain a perspective. We learnt, as with most things - less is more !
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