Big Junk yard Dogs#7

After painting for almost a year on 12" x 18" formats, I have recently started to paint on tore open cardboard boxes, the sizes mostly 3' x5' or so. This requires a whole new set of muscles and and new way of standing at the easel (or away from it and over the art on the floor). Bigger brushes but still a "disregard" for the surface as long as the image gets its day. I like dealing with the new texture and splits in the surface. I also gouge and tear the surface if I feel like it, and put the paint cans down right on the painting. House paint on cardboard.

Big Junk yard Dogs #5

Sometimes I like to let the painting sorta stretch and bend if it wants to, but this one seemed to be hell bent on exaggeration and (can we say?) cuteness. house paint on 3' x 4' or so card board box.

Big Junkyard Dogs #1

Crazy big cell cardboard! On this painting I used a squirt bottle with acrylic paint along with the house paint from the hardware store. Was I cheating?

Big Junk yard Dog #12

How fun that once in a while there are lables to paint over or around that remind me of the humble material I am using. House paint on flat cardboard box (shipped to a friends health food store).

Big Junk yard Dog #6

I continue to treat the surface in a casual manner while trying to create value through image making, thus making the surface valuable.

Big Junk yard Dogs #9

Some farmer drug this old truck out of the forest to the edge of the highway to sell, maybe 50 years too late. House paint on card board box treated badly.

Big Junk yard Dogs #3

At about 4 feet square, I have gone up in size from the brown bag paintings quit a bit.