spence munsinger
artist & painter
Colors as they mix at the surface of the mind. Intensities that change in relation to each others – hues that in a perception over time add and subtract and interact, changing what you are seeing. Mark Rothko hid his process to the extent that he could, working on large canvases. He was secretive, and [...]
This is the underpainting for Sunset #12. Two routes this will end up going – I’m thinking that working with the texture of the canvas I might be able to scrape away and get the translucent canvas feel of the umbrella, the changes in light behind it. The other alternative would be to layer on [...]
I followed an art newsgroup four or five years ago for about three weeks. This would be Usenet gathered by dejanews.com (which was purchased by google and morphed into google groups). I stopped following it. There was a HUGE amount of thought going into relatively little actual art. One girl was asking for opinions on [...]
airbrush underpainting. moon in the last vestiges of sunset. — spence
A painting is very different from a photograph. I’ve read artists complaining that the images of their work don’t impact in the same way as the original painting. Nature of the medium. A photograph is a different view of the work. I take promotional and documentary photographs on film of pieces as I complete [...]
I wanted to combine pastels, airbrush and acrylics into a portrait, and this is the result so far. I wanted a graffiti look to the whole, I wanted it to have the under paint of pastel work and color, but added texture and flatness of color and form of acrylic, and through that to [...]
