stain
Stain: These paintings are from the beginning of a series where a variety of oil stains and paints are applied in multiple layers sometimes with the canvas flat and sometimes with it inclined so that instabilities and fingers form of width determined by physics (e.g., wider fingers with more viscous paint, lower inclined canvas). The stain and paint is either poured or spattered on the canvas and then spread using the bottom of the can or with a large thick utility brush. Water and thinner is occasionally splattered to create immiscible or diffusive structures respectively. In places, the interaction of paint and stain properties creates a crinkled pattern and texture. Colors, organic forms and textures merge with energy imparted by spatter and sweeps of the brush.