Sahara City South

Parsons Summer Intensive Drawing and Painting Class

Summer 2013
Acrylic Paint on wood, glass tiles
This piece was inspired by a mirror I found in an old rundown restaurant while I was out
with my friends one night. Everything about it was so beautiful and mysterious. I worked a lot
with the texture using a palate knife to create the wall background behind the mirror. This was
a great study of light in the mirror as well as on the frame. Painting the picture frame was probably
one of the hardest things I've ever had to paint because I knew that the frame was the same pattern on
each corner, however because of the way the light hit it, you could only see parts of the patterns in
each side. Also the intricacy of the frame made it far more difficult than I had originally expected.
I think the tiles add a nice demential aspect and really add to the texture of the whole thing.
Also the idea that the focus is framed by a picture frame and then the picture frame is framed
by the tiles gives the piece a nice composition

This is the documentation of my process