I’ve spent the last two months working to recreate a previous composition. I began two canvases dedicated to this task. The works began with a layer of tar and sand, painted over again and again. I pealed off the layers, like strips of peel from an orange. I painted, repainted and painted again, using layers of polyurethane as the glue. I created a suitable background for a composition, using my normal layered style, and after completion, I found that I liked the simplicity of the backgrounds more than the thought of disturbing the silence with additional painted forms. I am done. Welcome to “Red Paintaholic” and “Purple Paintaholic”
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