Quality of Life Painting
crylic on canvas.
The first in my "Quality of Life" series. I got really into the random walls throughout the city where someone painted over graffitti, creating an abstract form by virtue of the mismatched paint colors.
I started buying rejct paint from home depot and stretching 5 by 6 foot paintings, rolling a color and then having my friends tag the canvas.
We would repeat the process several time to build up some layers on the simulated wall. Afterwords, I ogt the idea to take some of my sketchbook drawings and scale them up over the abstract form.
At the time I had been doing a lot of outdoor mural paintings and had seen, and painted over a lot of walls like this. It seemed fitting in somewoerd way to bring tese exterior walls inside the formal art establishement and put this organic reality on canvas and then add my own two cents on top of that.
