Bulletproof

Last time Steve Black was visiting from Singapore I remember showing him the “Road Masks” I was working on. They wound up on the wall at Tap & Mallet for a few years and now I think it’s in the owner’s back room. Steve called the other day and he’s been on my mind. I was working on some layouts for an ice cream company around that time and I had spray painted some lids and containers from ice cream we bought at Tops. I had spread out some newspapers to do the spraying on and when I was done I feel in love with the way the papers looked with the white holes and colorful sprayed paint. I cropped and mounted four of them under glass Steve really liked them too. He kept saying, “They’re bulletproof, they’re bulletproof”.

I recently submitted a ten six by six watercolors to RoCo’s annual 6X6 show. I cut mask out of white cardboard and held it over a bunch of 9×12 paintings I had done of crime faces. They were all ones that were finished but I wasn’t crazy about them so I cropped out sections that I liked. When I was done I put the mask done on my work table found this “bulletproof” image looking out at me.

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