thanks for commenting you all, lots of good points. I kind of agree with rolling nowhere and decyferon too, that stencilling is not too creative if it is just cutting some random pics without putting own artistic touch in to those. Especially if you don’t take the original pics yourself…or if there is no idea behind that stencil piece.
On the other hand, my aim is most def NOT to do something by hand what a camera and printer could do. If you’re doing a painting, there is no sense competing with machines.
In this piece, for instance, there is a lots of stuff what I have added to original pic before cutting the stencils. I usually take the original pics too, but in this case I got some really nice pics that my friend had taken in nyc in ’85 so I used those. This is my first piece from my upcoming ‘my NY dream’ series and all these upcoming paintings will eventually form a cohesive story. This painting is kind of only one scene of that story.
I also try to paint my stuff so that they look photorealistic but PAINTED. I like to play with surface too, like in this case the surface is not dead even. To me this adds also the effect that you could’t do this piece with any other method than via stencilling. Off course it’s impossible see all this stuff in a small pic on computer screen. (Actual size of this piece is 145cm by 96cm (57" by 38")).
This must be the longest post I have ever posted to any forum. haha.
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