Before and After Challenge, Chris Bellinger
Notes on the Challenge: Click here for complete details about the Before and After challenge. I will keep the challenge open for at least a couple of weeks, or long enough to get as many participants as possible.
I have decided to devote an individual blog post to each artist, so that we can take our time and comment as much as we like. I will post them as they come in. Please bear with me. This could take a while, but I think it’s going to be fun.
I hope you’ll go back through each post in the Challenge and share your thoughts.
Chris Bellinger
In Chris’ own words:
These are from my small series using polyfilla and acrylic. The canvases are 3×4 inches.
I wanted to make the painting lighter and I think this works though in the process it has been transformed. It is always a question of knowing when to stop.
At the moment I like to use paint thickly along with the polyfilla pushing forward the boundaries and seeing how far over the edge of the canvas I can go.
Before
My take: I can certainly identify with the fact that it’s not always easy to know when to stop. I think all artists have that in common. I like the deep texture and sculptural presence of this one. As you may already know, I love excess!
Go to Chris Bellinger’s Blog for a look at more of his work, and don’t miss the separate page of photographs from his Fine Art Degree Show.
Love both of these but especially the sculptural qualities and brighter colours of the “after”. So much imagination.