Accidental paintings

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Monday, September 21, 2009

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Ansikte

How wonderful is this one! My big sister found it on Skånegatan in Stockholm.

Monday, May 4, 2009

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Monday, February 9, 2009

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Monday, February 2, 2009

I caught one of my elusive artists at work today:

Friday, January 30, 2009

Grey finds on a grey day. And my favorite painting got tagged!

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Recent reflection photos sent from Amelia (not here) reminded me of my subway photos from a couple years ago. Diffuse, obscure, enigmatic? Or maybe just indecisive and ambiguous... In any case, I had three of these printed out big on canvas (VERY expensive) and am experimentally painting on them - trying to add some solidity to rest the eyes on. So far it's going badly and I'm making some expensive screw-ups.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Got this one from my girl Amelia too (Sanguinetti A!). I love that it's a plywood print in concrete. The organic wood print on the "leaves" is wonderful.

Monday, January 26, 2009

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Sunny side, shadow side

Friday, January 23, 2009

Thank you Laurie and Amelia for sending me this one (and MN pretty much counts as a Swedish suburb)!

Thursday, January 22, 2009

This one I collected in Göteborg, near my sister's house.

This line has been on the wall under the train station at Täby Centrum for over a month now. I can't imagine how it was made, but I hope it stays for a while longer as I admire it so much when I walk by. Better than any line I've made on purpose (http://www.emmaeyre.com/)

Horizontal lamp posts

Göteborg profile with tophat

With my own paintings (emmaeyre.com), I'm most interested in texture, color, illusion/anti-illusionism, and other formal elements. I've found that some of the most exciting texture, color, and illusions can be found around, outside and in, made by human and natural accident. I started documenting these "pieces" in 2008; they are lovely things made by weather, mold, frost, remnants of graffiti artists, government workers (painting over graffiti), snow, mud, rust, wear and tear. Once I started seeing the paintings, they were everywhere -- so in order not to spend all my time taking pictures, I have some loose rules, all of which may be broken any time I wish:

1. Except in special circumstances, the paintings/subjects should be two-dimentional. If something is just too exciting to pass up, then the finished photo counts as being two-dimentional (what I'm trying to do here is document existing "art" rather than creating art with my photographs. I have too much respect for real photographers -- folks who have learned a bit more about the craft than turning on a camera and using a flash or not -- to front).
2. The paintings should be accidental -- graffiti can be a part of the composition, but the idea is not to be documenting street art.
3. Abstraction is fine. Beautiful effects are ok (color combinations of paint peeling, rust, etc.), if a little boring. The prize is in finding a painting like the one above -- my favorite so far -- that is entirely accidental and representational.
4. All criteria can be abandoned whenever I like.