shades of gray art
Art
of acrylic
After receiving my formative training with Gordon Smith and Sam Black at UBC in the early 70’s, I worked in oils and wrestled with mineral spirits, linseed oil, fumes, rags, and a never ending search for ventilated space! Following WHMIS guidelines early in my teaching career, I transitioned to water colour for the next 30+ years, ignoring at the time, the relatively new, frustrating, chalky, matte acrylic paint.
Visual
Art
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Recently embracing the more refined acrylic paint of today, developing an appreciation of its malleable aspect, and ability to take on a 3-D form, I’m more accepting of it as a professional medium. Truth be told, I’m not sure why I ignored acrylics for so many decades. I’m enjoying this new learning curve as I control viscosity, and play with the polymer’s rheology and luster, at the same time integrating the medium with textiles.
