'making wallshapes' - stencils and spray-paints...

'making wallshapes' - stencils and spray-paints...

Below is a selection of images that show some of the larger, more traditional format spray-paintings by - wallshapes.

These spray-paintings are created on purpose-built cradled wooden panels. 

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As well as sharing some images of the work processes and photos that detail the finished abstract paintings....there's some of the final work drawings . And i've also added a few written pieces explaining my work...



🔼 work drawing...painting 🔽

🔼 🔼melting houses

 

'leisure' an abstract spray painting by artist wallshapes, with organic shapes in pink, brown, and green on a mint background, displayed on a wall in an artist's studio with spray cans, a stool, and lighting equipment visible.

🔼 🔼 🔼 leisure

-  leisure is 'a bit' mixed media as i added textured circles to the surface of the glossy varnish..spray painted of course!  -



'pop 1', a small abstract spray painted panel by artist wallshapes, featuring a blue background with large white and black circles, a central gold-yellow oval, and dripping paint-like forms in green, yellow, orange, red, black, and gray, leaning against a white wall on dark green cutting mat.🔼 🔼pop(s).

-  one of the benefits of working with spray-paints is having the in-built speciality lines such as metallics, fluorescents, glitters and glows amongst others. also it's achievable to mix colours for the exact shade you want by introducing drifts of colours onto the top of other colours on the surface of the painting  -




🔼🔼🔼original drawing + getting spray-painted..

(stencilling can get complicated!)

🔽🔽...the finished painting

🔼let go

- i like the raw, rough, paint on the smooth polished background. it's a painting about a figure who's just started to...let go -

 

🔼🔼🔼power

- spray-paints can be ideal for manipulating the surface texture. here i built the paint up fairly thickly in places and then applied a thick varnish layer which i  carefully wet-sanded flat, exposing layers of paint and also achieving a degraded and eroded paint appearance in the image, which i like very much! i then applied a really good polish to achieve a rich fine finish -


 

🔼🔼canaries


 

'the picnic (at the end of time)' -detail. an abstract colorful spray painting on a cradled wood panel. featuring a stylized blue face with large dark eyes, a dark mouth, yellow vertical brush-like lines, green circles, and a red-orange spotted vertical shape on a cream background.🔼🔼🔼the picnic (at the end of time).

 

 

🔼🔼the swimmers (spit-string)

the artist's interpretation of the swimmers :

 

-Simple maps turning our everyday pleasures into mournful regrets. Crisp lines lay lazy like a creamy summers tennis match, emotions overflow, push and pull, in this watery overture to a crumpled summer with comfortable soft throws on a mysterious patio -




digital stencil for wallshapes spray painting 'the blue wave', an abstract design with blue lines on a red and orange background🔼work drawing...finished painting🔽

an abstract spray painted, stencilled, wood panel by wallshapes, displayed in a studio setting, featuring bold wavy lines in yellow, orange, red, and blue with metallic gold line-like accents, standing on a painted studio floor.

🔼 the blue wave


🔼stencil....painting🔽

🔼venus/mary/mother/idol

- this is one of the first spray-painted wooden panels that i made, and going from large scale pieces to much more compact ones and limiting the paint bleeds and under-sprays was a steep learning curve, but it was well worth persevering -

 

 

 

..Thanks for looking-

...more later....ws..



 

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