Q: Assemblage

2004. Acrylic on sponge. 8 1/4" x 8 1/4" $89.99 plus $6.99 shipping, unframed. Click here if you want this piece.

This project represents a breakthrough on my part. It only took a few hours, start to finish, and it was 96% below budget. Okay, enough crap. This is among a series I do known as Betas, because the paints are left over from more ambitious projects I'm working on.

In this case, I felt like putting down a Q. I don't know why I like this letter so much, but its elegance just demanded expression, in the moment. I happened to have the surrounding colors on hand from another piece, so I put similar colors together.

I have to admit, my original thinking was, the bare sponge-canvas is so lovely in itself (I arranged the colors so as to form a rudimentary composition before I lifted the attaching needle), I may leave it naked, or expand it to greater size. Such lovely sentiments are for men far older than I, however; I like to color, and I only stay in lines I create.