Title and Medium
"Yellow Stapler". Mixed media on white paper.
Acrylic colors: lemon yellow, ultramarine blue, burnt sienna, white. Lead pencils and… true staples.
Artist's Statement
I have not painted from a photo, but from nature, just in front of me. No ruler but a sensory approach of the perspective. I have tried to suggest the anxiety caused by this awful open-mouth tool! It would have been easy to paint a few staples, but it was funnier to put them on the paper, trying to play with fiction and reality!
At first, a drawing with shadows, then the use of very diluted acrylic colors. At last, the staples and their precise location. Graphic artwork here prevails upon color.
What I'd Do Differently
- Regarding this challenge, I like the necessary good approach of the perspective. It was the hardest task for the whole painting.
- I have tried to create the space around the stapler with a minimum of clues. I don’t know if I have really succeeded.
Marion Boddy-Evans, Painting Guide, says:
Love the idea of making it a mixed media painting by using some actual staples! Adds a touch of humour to the painting.The composition works for me, a sense of a stapler sitting on a sheet of paper, with a strong enough shadow to suggest a desk light yet not so strong it distracts from the stapler itself. Also the way the staples lead the eye down to the signature of the artist.
