"Turn your Abstract Mess into a Heart-Felt Gift."
Welcome Back to Another BobBlast!
Your friends would love to own one of your originals! Here's your opportunity to offer them a painting that just didn't have a chance with you anymore... it may have been overpainted, too messy or just plain awful! Before you re-gesso the whole painting, try this method to create an original work of art, and a heart-felt gift for your friends!
Heart-shaped "balloons" floating in the sky... this all started with me around 25 years ago. I was in my studio, practicing reductive and negative shape painting on top of old, discarded, bad paintings of mine. Now you should also know that I have a fascination with balloons. I used them in my magic shows, and casted them in college ceramics classes for molds. I've included large latex weather balloons in my solo exhibitions and I've tethered Happenings' performers dangling from helium balloons (ah... the 60s). Then, 25 years ago my gallerist suggested I paint hot air balloons in my landscapes. Ugh... too mediocre for me.
So, searching for a fresher approach, I painted over older discarded abstracts, using opaque colors, reducing the abstract painting down to a simple loose landscape. But instead of the expected hot air balloon, I made them look like hearts floating in the sky. Thus, began my original Heart Air Balloon Series. All sold opening night. Another good event happened afterwards. Mr. David Larson, a director of comedy TV shows, bought my Heart Air Balloons as inspiration for his first novel about the adventures of children traveling thru space in their heart air balloons! You just never know when your work inspires others.
But, back to your heart-felt gift - they will love to receive this because it's from your heart.
Just don't tell them how you painted it... it's our secret. And today, over my current messes, I still do reductive hot air balloons that resemble hearts.
I'm still full of hot air...
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