Turn a Big Old Panting Into a Big New Painting
Striped Skunk 2022. Acrylic on canvas, 96 x 48" A new painting stretched over a 2015 frame.
Stretchers are expensive these days. So I’ve been taking apart old paintings and rolling them up for storage.
Dick Cheney Doing His “Clean Air Act“ in Pretend Hell 2015. Acrylic on canvas, 96 x 48"
It was an ant-fracking piece using war criminal and ex-U.S.Vice President, Dick Cheney, as a model. It got zero reviews at exhibition, and no bites at sales. It’s been producing cobwebs in the studio, so I chose it as one of several for deep storage.
Pull out 150 staples
Roll it up
Re-stretch, and by magic, fit it onto easel in cramped space. Begin gesso (primer).
Paint for 4 days.
Knock over paints and paraphernalia on way to take photograph in the backyard.
Photograph you and your favorite couple getting skunk-blasted for the upteenth time.
Always merry and bright!
Ron
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Thank you!
ha ha that's the best attitude enjoy what you do, a neighbor can tell how crazy he's planning to draw
Yes, the neighbors think I’m crazy. It’s best that way:)
Great work
Oh wow really how much are they? They look pretty simple wonder if you could learn to knock one together? Lol
I build all my canvas stretchers. Space is as much a problem as price of wood. My goal is in twenty years to have a few thousand rolled canvases insulating our house:)
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Yeah I feel you I paint probably way less than you and it definitely starts to take up a lot of space and my canvases are a lot smaller as well so yes I really value. I would really like to learn to make my own at some point I’m still painting on pre-bought
Oh I paint mostly on pre-bought also. It’s the big paintings that I stretch:)