[framed]

This is a painting on textured polypropylene (aka Yupo) in watercolor and acrylic with drawing in shades of grey Sharpie marker and collaged elements in the form of little stickers with numbers and 2D barcodes printed on them which are refuse from an engineering project that I'm involved with. I enjoy how the information seems to be erased from the stickers in areas where they are covered in translucent acrylic but the shape of the stickers is visible. I also like how the sharpie interacts with the watercolors, forming delicate outlines where watercolor pigment is pushed away revealing the white of the material background. The word "goals" is repeated in upside down stylized script up top on the right.

Really nice colors in this one. I was a little worried when I did the black and grey top layer that I'd covered up too much of the color but the painting has grown on me in the days since it was completed.

This is part of a series of eight small paintings that I made all at the same time in the following sizes: three 11 x 8.5 inches on textured polypropylene (Yupo), one 12 x 9 inches on one-inch profile gessobord, one 16 x 12 inches on watercolor paper, one 16 x 12 inches on canvas, and one 40 x 26 inches on textured polypropylene.

These pieces are pretty little tangles of possible space. I'm continuing my series of doing a number of small paintings all at the same time. I had been going large in my work for almost all of 2020 and the first part of 2021, so I wanted to see what would happen if I pulled it back to a smaller format. There is something a little more refined here, perhaps a little more careful, but still spontaneous and free.