I am using Kerry James Marshall as a starting point. He does all the things I like to see in paintings- a variety of text, each signifying something else, his flat paint mixed with the really wet paint, all on giant pieces of drop cloth. Hmm...I wonder why I like him so much?
So when I was in the city, I took a bunch of pictures of the walls. I will appropriate the entire image, paste it to a canvas, and paint over it.
I always wanted to invite the graffiti kids outside my building inside to start my canvases for me. But this will be better, because I would have had a hard time painting over their work. I need to go back to take more pictures, though, because I want the sidewalk and the sky in there to so I can put in some birds and people and dogs and babies.
