Daniel Stroup

: April 2016

: 45

(4)

United States

  • Urban Arts Gallery

    Urban Arts Gallery

    One of my pop art pieces at the Eight O'Clock In The Morning show

    20 August 2017
    DRAW Inc Gallery Opening

    DRAW Inc Gallery Opening

    Good friends and good wine at the gallery opening

    20 August 2017
    DRAW Inc Gallery Opening

    DRAW Inc Gallery Opening

    A couple of my abstracts at the reception.

    20 August 2017
    Ready to Paint

    Ready to Paint

    These two canvases have been textured, washed, and given a color ground. Both have dried and cured for a week or two and are ready to paint on.

    07 July 2017
    Colored Ground

    Colored Ground

    Artists often paint on a colored ground. This tends to harmonize the painting, as tiny flecks of the ground color show through the final painting, and tend to balance the overall final results in color harmony. Typically, the final painting will often be a complement of the ground. With these two canvases, you'll see that the one on the left has been texturized, washed, and given a blue green color ground. The canvas on the right has been textured and washed, and is ready for the color ground.

    07 July 2017
    Canvas Prep

    Canvas Prep

    With these two canvases to compare, you'll see that texture has been built up on both. The one on the left has been painted with a mixed black, and wiped back to reveal the texture - I refer to this as staining, or washing. I've completed building up the texture on the canvas to the right, and is ready for its first wash.

    07 July 2017
    Almost Ready to Paint

    Almost Ready to Paint

    Here are three canvases that have had texture applied. Gesso and modelling paste have been built up in layers, worked, tooled, and scratched, they are then painted with a mixed black/dark, and wiped back to reveal the scars and troughs etched into the surface.

    07 July 2017
    Art 270 Gallery - Natural Disorder Show

    Art 270 Gallery - Natural Disorder Show

    17 June 2016
    First Things First

    First Things First

    My paintings start out with about 7-10 coats of gesso at a minimum. Each layer is worked with various tools - brushes, scrapers, squeegees, sticks, and a variety of found items (some illegal, some that should be) - until I've arrived at an acceptably pleasing substrate that is as close to destruction as possible. Then the first of many layers of pigment are applied. Each layer is carefully abused and tormented until it pleads for me to stop, at which time I know it's time to proceed to the next level. In this photo, you're seeing the very first wash of pigment - in this case, burnt umber - which has been applied, scraped at, sprayed, poked, scratched, ridiculed and tormented. This is the first of many counseling sessions with this particularly defiant and deliberately obtuse canvas.

    14 April 2016