" Camera Obscura Series " Artist Technique .
The newest painting series by Loren Salazar marks a new shift in the
artist's painting technique.
These new works employ a combination of all past techniques used by Salazar in addition to multiple
layers of Epoxy Resin on a wood panel base.
Starting with files from Salazar's original photograph's and sketches from locations
world wide, the full composition is mapped out digitally as a study. In this new series, for the first time,the artist has incorporated
images from historical paintings and drawings .
The artist builds the composition by blending different locations , sketches
and drawings into a unique flowing image. This digital map of the work in progress continues up to the under painting stages.
From
the under-painting and to completion, all work by the artist hand includes a variety of techniques developed by the artist over decades
of art works.
Starting on a wooden panel (framed, sanded, and gesso with white ground ), the black and white under-painting is built
with pencil, brush, airbrush, spray, dry pigments, gels,and watercolor like washes until the composition is fully developed.
At completion
of the black and white under-painting, the image is sealed in the first of many coats of Epoxy Resin .
This first resin coat is
sanded , and an overlapping layer of small primary colored droplets are applied by spray gun .
These small droplets form a rich
base for building subsequent layers of additional colors.
Each layer is sealed in a resin coat which forms the basis for building
colors, contrast, textures. All applications of color are sealed in additional layers of transparent epoxy resin resulting in a
unique depth of color .
The final result is a rich, deep, translucent surface which reveals layers of hand applied colors
hovering over previous layers of color. It is a unique effect that one can actually see "into" the various layers of color in such
a manner that no digital output can achieve.
Within each layer of resin coated color , the artist employs various application techniques
including;
Traditional painting with brush, transparent washes, staining, rubbing in and lifting out, air
brush,
spray gun, dry pigment, acrylic spray sealing, acrylic gel , and Epoxy Resin layering.
The new
works in this series are completed in an average of 45 days (approximately a month and a half).