Video: "Button" painting by Eric Daigh. Portraits from multi-colored pushpins
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
I have several packages in my desk with multi-colored metal buttons, which I just can't find a use for. Although I really want to, because on a clear day the sun's rays play so merrily with bunnies on their polished hats … And only one artist named Eric Daigh know what to do with so many push pins … Of course, draw portraits! What he actually does in his creative workshop in Northern Michigan. The simpler, the more mundane the material the author works with, the more difficult it is to work with it - first you need to choose an approach to this material, "acquaint" him with a new role, and when he "reconciles" and gets used to it, you can proceed directly to work on the work … So, Eric Doug first turns the portrait that he is going to draw into something like a pattern for knitting or cross stitching: he breaks the photo into cells, assigns a number and color to each, and then reproduces it from the pushpins. An artist spends tens of thousands of buttons and several days or even months of work on one painting. However, if you do not get distracted, then one day of continuous "pushing" is enough for him.
Unlike artists who work with paints, Eric has an extremely limited palette - all that button manufacturers have to offer is just a few colors, even without the shades and the ability to mix them. But the artist is not discouraged, and uses this limited supply of colors for all 100, as a result, although outlandish in terms of color gamut, but very interesting, and most importantly, realistic portraits. And in this, as well as in the unusual material, his main "trick".
By the way, why does the artist draw portraits with pins? Eric Doug is sure that it is much more interesting for people to come to exhibitions, where they can look other people in the eyes, even if they are drawn, even with pins, but similar to themselves. In addition, portraits are always livelier and more spectacular than still lifes or landscapes, however, the author does not exclude that over time he will expand his horizons, and not only in terms of objects for creativity, but also materials.
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