My Hole

When I picked up this painting with the middle torn out of it (I'd used it for a collage), I thought, oh yes, that's the perfect thing for my next scans. That hole is for my face, obviously. 

I've been really enjoying painting lately. I have huge tubes of white and black paint, and a stack of thick paper, so I've just been working my way through it, and I love the familiar, loose feel of the paint. I like to get it super watery, so the lines will fade and there'll be a nice constrast between the super black, solid lines and the more diluted greys.

Not so much on this page though, because this was one of those pages for using up the last of the paint dregs on my palette. When I'm done with painting for the day, I almost always have a reasonable amount of paint sitting there, and so I use as much of it as possible on a new piece of paper. I just cover it and try to paint over it later, or re-use it for some other thing.

And, as you can see, I used this one for something. Other than as a frame for my face. But that's two uses right there!

Now I'll probably slice it up into little pieces for another collage. Very handy. Please look now upon one of my paintings:

Nice.