Zak Smith uses paint paper technical details brushes acry...

Zak Smith uses paint paper technical details brushes acrylic painting acrylic paint technique pens

(or "It's Called Paint and It Comes In Little Tubes")

This entry consists entirely of technical details about how I paint my
paintings.  It is dull.  I am not posting it because I think you all
want to hear about it, but because I get lots of e-mails and art reviews
wondering about the mysterious alchemical processes I use to create
my work and I am creating this page so that some of these lost
souls might find it.  (Thus all the google fodder up top).

So, the paintings:

the
paintings are painted with acrylic paint.  the black stuff is acrylic
paint.  the grey stuff is acrylic paint.  the other colors are acrylic
paint.  the silver and gold stuff, if there is any, is  metallic ink
(gel rollers).

the process is as follows:  I take a very small
paint brush with wet paint on it, put it on the paper, and move my
hand around.  There is no magic or machinery involved and it is done
freehand.  Sometimes I look at a real thing or person and paint it,
sometimes its a picture i took, and sometimes i just make it up.  How to
tell?  If its a picture with a title like "Lisa" then probably that's
from real life, if it's, say, a zebra-man with two samurai next to it,
then that's made up.

"What kind of paint?"  The cheapest kind they have at whatever store I am at.

"What
kind of paper?"  I never buy paper.  I usually just find it.  I use
anything with a slick surface that doesn't absorb paint, and is think
enough that the acrylic won't warp it.  I am not picky.  The backs of
posters or pieces of foam-core are probably the easiest thing for most
people to find.



Ok, the drawings:

The drawings are
generally made with black ink.  in whatever pen is closest.  usually a
pigma micron or a uniball micro.  if it has a lot of really careful
hatching then it's probably a pigma micron 005.  again, freehand, again,
no magic.

what kind of paper?  whatever paper is around.

ok

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