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FOX-SHEPHERDESS AND RAVEN
29K, 600 x 480, 1998, wet-on-wet acrylic, 16 x 20" canvas by Chris Wayan
I don't know if this fox-shepherdess ATE all her sheep or if she herded something invisible and quite different in that mountain meadow... but she seemed quite alone till she started talking to this raven on a rock like they were old friends.
This was a technical experiment for me. An art teacher wanted me to try an oil-painting technique called wet-on-wet. I'm sensitive to oil-paint solvents, so I used acrylic and painted gloppy and fast before it dried. Wet-on-wet gives you rather murky dark swirls of muddy color. I'm not fond of the dullness, but I'm glad to learn why all those 20th Century avant-garde paintings had such ugly colors. I always hated that look and wondered why a whole generation of artists had such a horrible color sense. Artists in a hurry, that's all! Oil takes so long to dry that you either waited or smeared! I'm more charitable now toward their muddy pictures--to the viewers of the time, the murkiness probably translated as proof of spontaneity, even PASSION!
Pre-acrylic, pre-digital artists and viewers saw with different eyes.
And me? I went back to translucent watercolory acrylic layers.
Intense color is my passion.
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