From r.,
This is my latest painterly creation. It depicts, of course, the TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimensions in Space), the space/timecraft of the Doctor on Doctor Who. It is acrylic paint on prepared artboard (specifically Mona Lisa brand by Speedball). This is my first time working with artboard (thank you clearance prices at Michael's) and it turned into a very happy accident. When I was putting paint on the surface it wasn't spreading well, so I had to keep watering the paint to get it to cover the substrate, then, when I went to apply the next layer of paint I discovered the lower layer was coming up and revealing the white board. This looked really cool. So I stopped painting, flipped my brush and started scraping away the paint (SGRAFFITO!). I like the look, very German woodcut. It really is an all or nothing proposition since you only get one shot at getting it right. This means it takes longer, but totally worth it. The quotation is from Craig Ferguson, a fellow Whovian, who said that this was the central lesson and meaning of Doctor Who. I agree. This idea came to me a few months ago as a possible tattoo idea, since this very principle--and watching Doctor Who--is what got me through the last stretch of finishing a dissertation.
This is my latest painterly creation. It depicts, of course, the TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimensions in Space), the space/timecraft of the Doctor on Doctor Who. It is acrylic paint on prepared artboard (specifically Mona Lisa brand by Speedball). This is my first time working with artboard (thank you clearance prices at Michael's) and it turned into a very happy accident. When I was putting paint on the surface it wasn't spreading well, so I had to keep watering the paint to get it to cover the substrate, then, when I went to apply the next layer of paint I discovered the lower layer was coming up and revealing the white board. This looked really cool. So I stopped painting, flipped my brush and started scraping away the paint (SGRAFFITO!). I like the look, very German woodcut. It really is an all or nothing proposition since you only get one shot at getting it right. This means it takes longer, but totally worth it. The quotation is from Craig Ferguson, a fellow Whovian, who said that this was the central lesson and meaning of Doctor Who. I agree. This idea came to me a few months ago as a possible tattoo idea, since this very principle--and watching Doctor Who--is what got me through the last stretch of finishing a dissertation.
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