Last Chance Saloon

Time really does fly by. The show is well and truly over and a new show is up at Galeria Nuble. But if anyone is still interested in a painting, now is the time to get in contact with Galeria Nuble and ask them before I have the remaining work sent back to me. The small stuff and cardboard work is all gone but don't let that stop you :)
This girl is based on early Heian style, and inspired by the Hina Matsuri dolls, wearing Juni-Hitoe robes. Love this style as it's really over the top and ceremonial. 'Iro Iro' was the last painting done for the show. It roughly translates as 'this and that' and probably has the most layers of all the work. Starting with a few layers of random sketching with spraypaint, then tagging, quick throw up to cover it, and then buffing it off as much as I can. You can see the first layers just about showing through. Interestingly, I notice that the anti-graffiti stuff melted off all the 'graffiti paint' by Montana but just didn't work on the 'Grog' black ink or Hycote's double acrylic spray.
I gave it a couple of days to dry out and painted a character on top with acrylic. Then framed it with a little throwup.



Buffing away the layers makes for really nice textures.

Galeria Nuble

The buffing thing really makes me wonder though.. Montana is making paint to directly target graffiti artists and yet it's really easy to buff off. City Council's should stop whining and quit lying about the cost of buffing it off. End custodial sentences for graffiti artists and make them clean it off.