Art is an act of destruction

Making Art is in essence a process of destruction! In effect changing one image to create another means destroying the previous image. One way to do this is to distressed/damage the painting which forms number 30 on my list of simple and interesting painting ideas. In this case I splashed household bleach over Marker pen and acrylic paints. The effects where both interesting and unexpected. The bleach did not behave quite the way that I had envisioned in some places it fully bleached the paint while in others it just altered the colour or had limited effect while on the marker pen it left a brown stain of varying degrees. 
 

#23 9 x 9 inches approximately 
Marker pen and acrylic paint painted on paper





                                     
       
#24 Ink and acrylic paint on paper   
9 x 9 inches approx, Mixed-media on paper



In the piece (#24) I used Marker pen, conté crayon, charcoal, acrylic paint, oil pastel and bleach. In the areas that I applied conté crayon or charcoal I found that these media did not adhere to the surface, remaining lose and unstable.  Like  #23 I had made a decision to distress the paint with bleach, which had some unexpected results. The bleach is difficult to control as the effects are uneven and varied but interesting and worthy of further investigation.

Note: the bleach not only affected surface but permeated through to up to 5 sheets of paper below altering the colour and texture of the paper itself.

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Acrylic paint and Pen

#15 Acrylic paint and Pen, 9 x 9 inches approx
Acrylic paint and marker pen on paper

The black marker pen was drawn over acrylic paint in a free and absent minded way and the effect is very interesting. Faces seam to appear in a great many of my paintings and artwork however I had not really considered this while working on this piece as I was only filling the surface in a rough circular fashion next time I will make more effort to be more angular and abstract  Note I found this exercise much nicer than using marker pen on plain paper.  Please leave your valued comments, which are always appreciated, thank you.