"IGNITION POINT II" 11003, daily painter mixed media abstract © Carol Nelson Fine Art

"IGNITION POINT II"

                         

I'd like to see them try to copy this!  HA!!  This abstract features combusted metal foil AND there's lots of texture.  It is similar in concept and technique to "IGNITION POINT" (below) that I posted last month.

                        


As you know, I love playing around with new things.  These were both done using my butane torch - AND I didn't even set off the smoke alarm!

I wish you could see them in person because they look SO MUCH BETTER when you can see the light dancing around on the metallic surface.

For more information, please click here to go to my website.  These WILL be at the Indian Market show at the Merchandise Mart in Denver next weekend.

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"IGNITION POINT" 10168, daily painter textured metal abstract © Carol Nelson Fine Art

"IGNITION POINT" 10168

 I love this painting.  Remember my torch experiments from last week?   Well, here's what I created with three of the metal foil sheets I burned with my butane torch.  I just LOVE trying new things and this turned out really cool.

This is how it started

 After burning the foil pieces, I glued them to this 30x15 canvas.  It's hard to see in a photo, but I made the corners lift up using clear acrylic gel.

Closeup showing burned metal foil.

Side view

There's a site called photofunia.com where you can upload photos and do fun things with them.  I took this painting and manipulated the image so it looks like three paintings in a store window.  Fun, fun.

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"BLAZE," 10165, mixed media contemporary horse experimental © Carol Nelson Fine Art

"BLAZE" 10165, 11x14 mixed media

I was reading* about Italian artist, Alberto Burri (1915-1995), who was an influential figure in the postwar art scene in America.  His work is currently on view at the Santa Monica Museum of Art.  I was interested in his use of unusual materials such as burlap, fabric, wood, sheet metal and plastic.
Sometimes the materials were torched in order to explore the expressive qualities of molten plastic, charred wood, and singed fiber.

I recently got a torch and was itching to try it on something.  I tried melting a piece of copper, but my BUTANE torch does not burn hot enough to melt copper - need a PROPANE torch for that.  My torch, however, is hot enough to melt thin metal foils.

I like the effect of torching the foil.  It changes color and actually melts if you hold it in the flame long enough.  If you've ever worked with foils, you know that you cannot tear them easily and this enables you to create a ragged edge which is sometimes preferable to a straight edge on a collage piece.

In this painting, the red areas are made from red aluminum foil that has been torched around the edges.  There also is texture from acrylic gel medium.

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*"(Re)discovering Burri," by Kirsten Swenson, Art in America, December'10