Bad Dog!!!, sketch for BOATRIDE!!! iteration 1
2012
Acrylic on Silkscreened Raw Canvas, Mounted on Panel
12x13 inches
I use sketches to test out imagery....but that is the least of their usefulness. The important part is testing out the processes. The sketchy silk-screening of the background on the raw canvas. The drawing and painting of the figure in different thicknesses of acrylic paint from watered down and thin to heavy medium and thick. In this first iteration of the sketch the silkscree, drawing and painting were done and then left for three months (in humidity-challenged Calgary). Later it would be sanded with a rough-grit beltsander...I was really looking to convey the idea of motion, of a subject with a mind of its own that has no interest in pleasing or entertaining a viewer...except that, as the artist, I hope that it does.
If you want to see it.... Here is the final iteration of this piece.
If you want to see it.... Here is the final iteration of this piece.
Sharon Hogg is a visual artist working in Calgary Alberta and Lombardy Ontario, Canada. She holds a Bachelors of Fine Art and a Masters of Fine Art from the Alberta College of Art and Design.
Where humans intersect with unseen natural forces, she imagines what lies behind or beneath the surface. More than seeing, she wants to feel the backstory, the understory, the glue that holds it all together. Her work seeks to bring that underlying level of awareness closer to the visible and the touchable.
The Sublime, New Materialism and the Vorticists are influences.