“Splatter art” by artist painter Theo Dapore

Splatter art 538

by artist Theo Dapore

three canvas group sectional set panels triptych

Original acrylic on stretched canvases.

Large 24 high by 36 wide in inches

or roughly

60 height by 90 width in centimeters.

Three canvases of 12 by 24 inches.

Back wrapped with painted sides.

This acrylic painting was just completed today and is available.

About the painting.

The center canvas red was painted with a three inch common household painters brush.

Theo prefers the brand that the local dollar store stocks. Though I believe he has every artistic brush

every made. The studio is full of brushes but he primary paints with this over-sized cheap brush.

Theo can paint fairly fine with the brush  which is amazing to watch. He stands the brush on end

leans it so just the very edge  touches and softly strokes  the canvas. I have seen strokes that are about

a quarter of an inch. Not bad for using  a three inch utensil.

Well after the red was applied the black edging was applied  using a small squeeze bottle and liquefied

ebony black. Just after its application  the black is raked with one of his custom made jumbo palette knives.

In a earlier post I have gone into detail about the knives Theo designed.

The outer set of canvases where painted using the three inch brush with water down paint.

The effect is similar to a watercolor painting. Allowed to set until almost completely dry.

At that point he drizzled on a bit of black and red and with his large palette knife grabbed

large amounts of white and flung it on the outer panel duel.  Working quickly he moved

the paint around. Some areas scrapping to lift paint and depositing the accumulation from the

knife edge  in other areas.

While still wet Theo used three squeeze bottles with liquefied red white and black.

With a hard wrist snap threw the paint on the three canvases. One throw of the white finished in a swirlling motion.

As well as the red was swirled and not throw.

The finishing touch of the Dapore signature was done with a script liner quill.

Theo most always signs his paintings with a large bold fluid flowing writing that actually becomes part of the design.

Added are three medium heavy coats of matte varnish. The addition of water or the water solution breaks down the permanence of the acrylic. The heavy application of varnish adsorbs deep into the softened acrylic area and replaces the lost binding of the paint. The varnish is ultra violet protectorate and   has a harder finish than that of the acrylic.

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