Canton Payphone (2009)
The Canton Payphone was painted for Painting I class at A-B Tech. The assignment was to explore building up texture using various additives. I followed my disappointment with the growing extinction of the payphone. I had already taken photos of some, including an out-of-order payphone in Canton, NC. I covered the canvas in pages torn out from area phonebooks and built up thick applications of acrylic paint with heavy gel medium and some molding paste. In some areas, you can see the phonebook pages showing through.
10 in by 10 in, acrylic and phonebook pages on canvas, 2009.
For Sale: $70 USD
[...] was painted for Painting I at A-B Tech, based on a photo I took in downtown Asheville, NC. As with Canton Payphone, painted at the same time, I layered paper strips torn from the phonebook into the gesso. The [...]