"Guitar and Lamp"

Semi Abstract Guitar Lamp

“Guitar and Lamp” is part of a five-piece series done in the corner of a room. The room itself is completely random, the colors were all random, and the content was completely random as well. There are two pieces in the series that are like this one. One sits in Tennessee and the other sits in my gallery still. The three others are separated as well, one in NC and another is in a collection out in Kentucky I believe. I was truly pleased with how they all turned out.

This piece started off with a spray-painted stencil in the center of the guitar looking structure. I made the stencil, encouraged by watching Fred Smith in his early years make stencils for t-shirts. I cut out the design you see in silver, hit it with spray paint and the painting kind of evolved from that.

With the background, I was really just trying to get rid of paint. I had an excess of paint and at that time I was trying to get rid of paint I didn’t like, so the easiest way for me to do that is to push it out on the canvas and spread it around with a pallet knife, and that is what I did. It created a room affect and what room in not complete without an abstract Chinese New Year looking lamp, and Baroque style frame and rug.

The idea is to always have fun creating, passion just injects itself into the piece at that point. You work it till it pleases you even more, and this painting is a direct consequence of all that. Even the title is precise and to the point on this piece. The stencil shows up in a few other paintings of mine, I will post them as well. You should pick one up, there are only a few with this image in them.

If you are super wise you would make me an offer on the stencil therefore taking it out of commission and raising the value of any painting with this stencil in it. The fictitious rug is done is super thick paint, the frame is like that too. The lamp is just dope, and the guitar consequence just makes the whole piece. I relate the lamp to the paper lamps you see in Asian cultures because it has that floating affect. Of course, nothing else makes sense about it being a lamp except maybe the base but it works extremely well also.