Lost

Lost was created by covering the canvas pad with strips of masking tape (technique from Clauding Hellmuth). After, I painted Nickel Azo Yellow acrylic over the tape. When dry, I painted and smudged green paint over parts of the pad. Here I forgot that the second layer of paint should cover less of the painting surface so that the first layer can still be distinguished. Anyway, I got new sets of number and letter stamps and just read the book Alphabetica by Lynne Perella, so I was inspired to add numbers and letters to my background. I used a combination of archival ink pad and Paintbox and Colorbox pigment ink pads to apply the stamps. I thought of my birth date, the current year and my age, etc. Pitfall was, when i smudged paint over parts i stamped with numbers and letters, parts where i used regular pigment ink got smudged off as well. Those left were numbers and letters I stamped with archival ink. So I added more stamps only using archival ink pads. I stamped a scratch pattern in the left side, let drops of watered down Napthalo Red Light paint crawl over the surface, and used DYMO stickers to create the words. I added chinese character stamps and a small UNDERGROUND stamp i got for free in the left bottom corner. I named this piece Lost because i got lost in the process because what i had stamped first got erased and I got lost in so many techniques i could choose from.