Laine makes all of her mediums and oil paints by hand. Well mostly…some colors, such as lead white, are too toxic to tackle making…to be able to precipitate her own lake pigments…who wouldnt want to set up a chemistry set to do that!?
Making paints by hand provides an artist with many opportunities (besides toxic exposure) that dont exist with commercially manufactured paint. Some pigments aren’t sold premade, often these are the rarest. Such as Oyster Shell white, or a 1st rate Lapis Lazuli.
When we look at a painting, light is in actuality traveling through small-mini-tiny-micro-invisible-to-us particles of raw material, which we see as color, and then it bounces right back at us. In a sense, a painting is giant flat kaliedescope.
Now,
with that premise in mind, choosing colors is everything in creating a beautiful image that is capable of interacting with the light and space around it.
These paintings are sparkly, shimmery, flat, matte, glossy, punctured, raw, violated and smoothly coated, all at once. This is possible only through material exploration, rejection and study.
Although the story about the tactile physical nature of these paintings is important, it is merely one of process, nothing more, nothing less. It serves by enabling the execution of content; the true meaning of the work may exist with out sacrifice due to an unmastery of material.
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