Darren Daz Cox, now in Pekin Illinois!
Oh no the light will fade your painting your precious investment screams of horror
Don’t be afraid of the light!
Art isn’t a holy relic that you have to keep in a controlled environment for fear of decay!
Colors appear when the reflected light activates them. There is no blue paint used here.
"Fauna" painted for the Art Alliance show but still not 100% dry ha! I’m really enjoying the concept of light and how it adds to art. I see art everyday on Flickr that is carefully cropped and taken with ‘advertising’ lighting. That’s not how it’ll look in your house! Photograph your art in situ, and make your art to fit the environment where it is most at home in I say.
The true beauty of oil paints isn’t really experienced unless bright light is allowed to penetrate the layers and bounce back, it’s why Rothko’s color feild paintings work when you actually see them.
Live for today with your art, touch it, smell it, put stuff on it and you’ll enjoy it more I think!
Originally posted 2008-04-03 07:08:04. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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April 3rd, 2008 at 7:17 am
I do have to confess to being a little afraid of light. We used to have a poster of hot air balloons (bawoons!) and all the red was bleached out of the print in less than two years by the ten minutes or so of sunlight that traveled across it every day. We got a new piece to put there – my girlfriend did hot air balloons in colored pencil – that’s heavy on the blue. We’re hoping the u/v glass will help this piece keep its color.
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:50 am
Two years is long time to a poster! I think you got your money’s worth from it!
perhaps the fading was a sign from your subconcious/higher self to put a new piece of art up, with the money you save on u/v glass you could buy more posters!
think about it, why struggle against entropy? everything decays, your outside won’t be young and pretty forever, perhaps this King Canute-esque struggle against the light is just a manefestation of your natural biological desire to stay young (not to mention the pressures of advertising compelling you to stay young or suffer the horrors of unattractiveness?
When the poster fades, scribble on it, have a day when you break the rules and just deface it, then buy a new poster! that’s what i say!
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:54 am
Daz, The White Elephant may be my favorite yet. The concept of the glow in the dark painted moon is so Cool. I can imagine this hanging in my bedroom!