erinthepainter

About me

I paint, walls, sometimes buildings,and objects I find.When I paint BIG and life sized, I walk a tightrope between artwork and extreme housepainting. I get my art supplies from the hardware store and I haven't touched an easel in years. I sometimes use three or four colors on a roller at one time an...

I paint, walls, sometimes buildings,and objects I find.When I paint BIG and life sized, I walk a tightrope between artwork and extreme housepainting. I get my art supplies from the hardware store and I haven't touched an easel in years. I sometimes use three or four colors on a roller at one time and have three rollers in use at once.
I paint things I find. Rocks, driftwood, or just old wood are my favorites. Never had the means or the desire to buy fancy and high priced art supplies, but I have always scavenged my environment, wherever that may be. There is always some thing that is in abundance, free, and usually totally ignored by the populace for those very reasons. THAT object is what I like to paint on. And anytime I can, I use that vessel as an extension of the artwork I create. Its like an extra bonus.
And I love music. so I listen to music and feel the music and paint to it. the music moves me. Literally and figuratively. Sometimes the melody just forces some part of the scene out of me, and sometimes the words, speak directly to my situation, or present feelings, and it makes everything simple and clear.

It has to move me, though,in some way, or I have no use for it in my brain. Bad music can alternately, seriously screw me up, when other people can somehow just ignore it or laugh it off. So I am very careful with what I put in my ears...

The songwriters and poets I listen to live parallel lives to my own so I take heart in knowing I am not alone in being alone...and in working ridiculously long hours sometimes and just getting by most of the time. And hopefully what I do may soothe or inspire, or just tickle some other restless soul in the way the music saves mine.
This music collection is my most valuable and influential possession... obsession...addiction...inspiration...
Music takes me away from all the worries and meaness and confusion of this world and lets me paint, somewhere off in a world of my own creation. That's how I like to spend my days.
...different worlds, different places, different days, but the process is always the same.

I started drawing when I was young, then switched to painting small, found things, because small found things were FREE.Like rocks and driftwood, and stuff. As I got older the music I found got better and the painting got bigger.. I 'm pretty old now and I paint murals, mostly. They cover the room from floor to ceiling,sometimes the whole building. Sometimes inside, sometimes outside, (depending on the weather). I bring the outside inside, and the inside outside. I've painted wood to look like rock, rock to look like wood, new surfaces to look like old surfaces...I like to upset the status quo, whatever that may be.
I usually use acrylics, either latex housepaint, or artist pigments. Sometimes I paint in UV light with flouerescents, or a mix of the two....I use rollers for most of my work, brushes at the end for detail work.When I turn music on, music takes me ...somewhere...
when I paint/ dance/ sing along, then the walls go away, and the room becomes the place in my head.
in my mind I measure my paintings in those songs.
and the songs are the most important tool I have...
the paint is up there, too.

Information

• Name: erin thepainter
• Country: USA
• Joined: January 21, 2009
• School: Whassamatta U
• Occupation: throwing paint at walls and other things
• Favorite Music: todd snider,fred eaglesmith, john prine...whatever moves me
• Favorite Movie: I don't watch movies much
• Favorite Book: (too many good books to pick one)
• Genre: Street Art, Painting, 3-Dimensional Art, Portraits, Murals

• Links:
• http://www.youtube.com/user/erinthepainter?feature=mhum

My Groups: architecture, fairytales, gutai

Blogs

• dragon the line May 17, 2010
• a little behind... April 17, 2010
• different train, same building. September 07, 2009

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