Snow Crash

Acrylic on canvas [91 x 61cm]

This painting, the first of 2021, follows on from work I started making in 2018.

The glowing line on a field of noise has become more complex thanks to the geometric experiments and insights of drawings made last year. Here I am using the same tessellating forms as my recent watercolour work, in which a composition is discovered by projecting lines from the corners of a grid, moving up one side and then reflected down the other. In the execution of this painting I have again attempted to retain something of the scratchiness of a drawn surface and allowed for many minor imperfections and bleeds to occur. 

A balancing of elements in this signal-to-noise ratio.

©ADG2021
 

Deep water

Pen and watercolour on watercolour paper

 

Recentley I have been experimenting further with watercolour. I started with some small ones (A5) before moving to a larger format (A3), intuitively choosing colour and shade, working quickly allowing for areas of bleeding and incidental colour mixing.

I am making these thinking that they could potentially be translated into acrylic on canvas and to better understand the geometries of this system. I am attempting to create some patterned surfaces that will operate as autostereograms (better known as Magic Eye pictures) that produce the illusion of a three-dimensional scene. I have also made some digital examples of this technique and the effect works as described... 

By focusing through the surface of the image an illusion of receding space can be seen, and by narrowing sections of the pattern a gradation of depth can be achieved. This composition almost achieves the desired effect.

©ADG2021