Carts mixed media on birch 49x58x2.5
This abstract piece is made of two panels, so technically it's a diptych. As the title suggests, the inspiration comes from a folding chair cart that we had in the studio one day. I really liked shape of the bars on the cart and so decided to draw it several times. After that I played with the logic of those overlapping carts to create the abstracted image. I haven't had much luck with abstraction in the past, but this seems to be the closest I have come to making an abstract image that I'm fairly happy with. I also used the acrylic/wood putty mixture that I've been having fun with lately. I don't know how archival that stuff is, but it's pretty inexpensive and fun to work with. In the next posting I'll include some other abstract pieces that use similar methods and mediums.