Wet and Wild, starting on the ground, then crinkled and crumbled, folded and hung, using bold high flow and generous palette tube acrylics as well as a host of dye and metallic inks bring 'Road Trip' Screaming to LIFE!
A large painting, I am thoroughly enjoying this free new process - working from large swaths of loose canvas - open to any and all possibilities without any boundaries or rules - I can paint on and on and on.
What the painting decides to become - it decides to become. I am a facilitator. I used to try and tell the painting what I wanted it to do, what I wanted it to look like, what message I was trying to get across, etc. What a joke that turned out to be. It didn't take long before I saw the folly in that. Regardless of how hard I tried, the painting, more times than not, would turn my intentions around 180 degrees. I'd get mad as hell - literally throwing them against walls - it was a war - me against them, for quite a while.
I'm not sure when it happened, perhaps gradually, I gave up. I surrendered to whatever creative force there was between me and painting. That's when painting became fun - mostly. Now, I just show up. Ideas come to me intuitively and I feel free to just try them out - so I do. Rarely do I have a clue as to where the painting will go until it's done and I always know the second it is. Never had a problem knowing that.
Frequently, I do not have a clue as to what the painting means until it's been with me for awhile - sometimes a month or two and all of a sudden one day I'll be looking at it and in a flash, see the message loud and clear - and the title and meaning and purpose of why I needed to be there to create that painting - all made sense!
So ... to make a long story a bit shorter (sorry, I am BiPolar, and have a tendency to run on a bit when I'm excited) this new process is very exciting, liberating in a way. I will continue to explore this style for a while until, I don't.
I do hope that you enjoy "Road Trip.' Let me know what you think.
Creatively yours,
Louie Rochon