Sac Attack Series: Dec - Jan 2001 Bauhaus Art: linear fauvism art - oil paintings

These paintings came as a response to being over privileged with my selection of art materials.  I had been using Belgian and Italian hand primed linen, Michael Harding Artists oil color paints, and the finest mixing mediums.  It all seemed such a joke. I felt like a silver spooned rich kid while in my studio.

Sac Attack (Female). oil on sac. 24 x 28 inches. Dec - Jan 2001.

So I decided to start working on sac (the packing material used to cover the rolls of canvas as they are transported on the boats out of  India). To size the canvas, or to prepare the surface so that I could paint with oil on them I used rabbit skin glue.  This is a traditional method of preparing a surface.... rabbit skin glue made from 1 part granules or bone marrow to 12 parts water. It is heated up and painted on the sac (two coats). 

Sac Attack (male). oil on sac. 26 x 34 inches. Dec - Jan 2001

Before you think that these paintings are created with garbage, cheap, toilet paper quality materials. I would like to state that only the linen was replaced with sac. And the quality of the paint and mediums was not replaced. The quality and intensity of the colors and their longevity is not compromised.  I used Michael Harding paint which is considered '...the best paints in the world today' Howard Hodgins 1996. David Hockney (1998), 'The first quality oil paint, Excellent!'.