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Shirley Hudson
E-Mail
(831) 425-8754
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Artist's Statement
My
form of art is reverse painting on glass – not the fine-lined
delicate paintings of long ago but big, chunky, irreverent and bawdy
paintings. They are intended to make you smile and maybe even
chuckle. I am fascinated by the general goofiness of life – my
subject matter is always people.
Reverse painting suits me perfectly. The technique is very
challenging as I paint on one side of the glass and view it from the
other. I am forced to turn my thinking process around. Instead of
applying layers of paint to a canvas and finishing with highlights,
such as the gleam in the eyes, I must start with the highlights and
then work backward from there. It is fairly fast because once I lay
down paint, it doesn’t move – I’m pretty much stuck with it. I
usually paint on old windows. They have such character and I love
the rusted out old hardware attached. They seem to lend themselves
to my big, chunky subject matter, not to mention the fact that they
come with their own
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