i just love to throw paint ...
My work is fast, gestural and full of color, as I splash, throw, spread and pour paint onto the canvas. I love the great abstract expressionists of the 20th century, and my paintings are a tribute to them -- and at the same time, my own way of updating their vision into the present day.
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A Friend told me... |
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“How? How do you do it? Your paintings make me smile and my heart happy every time!”
The process"My work is highly gestural, colorful and spontaneous, as I try to capture and convey the magic of a single moment in paint. I work mostly in acrylic and pastel on canvas — I’ll often rough out a composition in a sketch on paper beforehand, then start laying down paint. Sometimes, I just dive in.
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I tend to paint right out of the tube, mixing colors directly on the canvas and adding in a lot of water for effect, to blur and blend. I’ll fairly quickly throw, squirt, smear, smudge, spatter and flick paint to create a scene that expresses motion, light and energy.
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I tend not to title my works, because people like to see different things in the often messy images I create, and I don’t want my thinking on the piece to crowd out someone else’s interpretation of it. I love to hear what people think of when they look at a piece, because they almost always help me see something new in it, that I did not even realize I was putting there."
~Ron Rollins 
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