Here is an abstract painting done while I was staying in London Ontario in the basement apartment. The scene is a kind of fusion between abstract and landscape, I guess it would be best to call it a surrealism painting. It is reminiscent of Dali's melting clocks, although in this case the colour slides do not really look like much, to me they seem like sheets of music without any notes.
The technique for this one was fairly complex, there is a background scene of a forest painted in first, and then the colourful spots of the colour slides, which were done wet in wet. After the paint dried, I overlaid thick red border of the slide, and finsiehd with chinese black ink on top of the watercolour. I was in a phase of using chinese black ink at the time, the first use was in one of my personal favorites 'Birdman'. To hold the ink I do the painting on a thick mat board which is quite absorbant as well.
11x14" mat board, 2003 watercolour and chinese ink
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