spence munsinger
artist & painter
I paint on canvas using oils and acrylics. Not necessarily with brushes – much of the work I’ve been doing for the last few years has been painting knife, layered applications of individual acrylic colors over air-brush, with minimal brushwork. I find a dance between the texture and application of paint to the rough surface [...]
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 [...]
Acrylic on canvas painted impasto and painting knife over airbrush, Sunsets is an ongoing series. I am an Expat. Californian. These paintings come from a sense of immediate distance, of separation, of childhood for me. They are born from a clarity of color and light along warm sand and asphalt hot enough to burn the [...]
This is acrylic on canvas, 30″ x 24″ x 1.5″. see about Sunsets — spence
Sunset #8. Wind blowing through the palms at the edge of the beach in Venice, CA. see About Sunsets
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 [...]
—spence
