I’ve been working on some large-scale pieces lately with my painting group. We’ve been working on 6’x9′ unstretched cotton canvas, stapled to the wall. I’m using primarily acrylic paint and gesso, along with various drawing materials. The gesso gives me a very opaque color and some tooth onto which the drawing materials can adhere.

This has been satisfying work, and has reminded me how much I enjoy working with mixed-media materials and working large, and how important drawing is to me, even when I’m painting.

Here’s my set-up…

And here I am working on the first piece…

That piece, which was done a few weeks ago, is shown in this short video in various stages of completion…

You can see that I started with a canvas split into two halves, red and white. From there, I drew figures in, then drew and painted and edited over many iterations. The finished piece is titled “Falling and Fallen”.