Tongue

Tongue is painted on a 10” x 7.5”, 25 cm x 19 cm,  ¾” MDF panel using mixed paint media. Tongue has a high gloss resin finish and was painted in 2020.

Tongue is from a group of paintings on black panels that explore self leveling binders and pigments. Tongue started as a pool of white binder in the center of the painting. Different pigments were floated on the surface of the binder then pushed out to the edge with reactive media to form a darker ring. You can just see the outer edge of the white binder against the black panel. The panel was tipped downward allowing the binder to flow off the bottom. After drying another inner circle of blue binder was added with pigment dispersions. More media was added and the panel tipped downward with media running off the bottom.