Eddie Swayze - WildPoet: 2009

Sunday, December 20, 2009

"Future" Painting

I found a tinfoil-covered piece of wood in the basement below my apartment. I used the piece for an exhibit a while ago and it has not been used. I decided to pick that up and do the painting on it. I used fluorescent paint. The images you're seeing are showing high technologies that will be used more and may happen in the future that deaf and hard of hearing people would rely on for communication capabilities. All of the images were from my head. None of them came from magazines or the Internet, or anything. I used Cubist style kind of painting to show the forms, shapes, and structures of the faces, bodies, and technology devices. After the paintings were completed, I drilled and then screwed in that enables the black light to be attached onto the top part of the piece. When turning the black light on, the images with fluorescent paint glow. This effect shows the high-tech feel or look in the work.

Another "Little Women" Lobby Display

Here is the other third plywood board of the woman for "Little Women" theatrical production at National Technical Institute for the Deaf, showing a woman writing. Found on Internet, printed it out, xeroxed it into transparent paper, and then projected it onto the plywood board. Traced the image with pencil and then painted it in acrylic paint. I also used a sponge to create the texture background. I also typed the title and the writer's name with a font chosen from PhotoShop and did the same process except I used a thick black marker to do the title and writer's name.

"Little Women" Lobby Display Project

I created this two large plywood boards of the lobby display for National Technical Institute for the Deaf's upcoming "Little Women" theatrical production. I found the pictures of the women in the Internet, printed them out, xeroxed them into transparent papers, then projected them onto the boards. Used pencil to trace the images, then painted them in acrylic paint. I used Cubist style kind of painting to show the forms, shapes, and structures of the women's bodies/faces. There is one more large plywood board that will be added to these two.