By
Db Waterman
Piece description from the artist
Modesty is a character trait or behaviour in which people portray themselves or their own merits as smaller than they are.
This expressionistic colourful portrait is built up with layers; a drawing of a girl's face, pieces of previously made original acrylic paintings and pieces of collages.
The acrylic paintings are mainly street art and pop art-like artworks, which are used as background for a painting. I first take photos of these to save them for digital editing. The same goes for the collage artworks. All the layers are brought together in photoshop and edited to the final digital result; a totally new artwork in the form of a portrait
I assemble original photography, assorted papers, acrylics, oil, charcoal, ink, and pencil in my works. The variety of resources I am able to use has proved indispensable to me. The biggest challenge the collage medium posed was its unforgiving lack of transparency. Finding a way to replicate the effects of transparency afforded by paint, especially watercolors, was a large victory for me. The preparing labor shows through in my collages; layer upon layer of material remains visible in the finished pieces. I believe my body of work is characterized by my skill for reinvention. Having always loved the appearance of weathered walls plastered with peeling paint and old posters, I revive this aesthetic with hopefully a keen and professional eye. The creative objective of my work is to “make something beautiful out of dilapidation.” My tableaus explore the dissonance between old and new materials, intertwined in the most beautiful way possible to create dreamlike and melancholy images.
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