Don’t touch 2.0

Medium

Acrylic Paint on Canvas using Stuart Semple Black 2.0

Size

80 x 80 cm
1 in Canvas Depth

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This piece came from experimenting with reflective surfaces and pushing realism into something less recognisable and more abstract.

The background was painted using Stuart Semple’s Black 2.0, his homage to VantaBlack, a trade marked black that absorbs over 99% of visible light. Go check out Stuart’s mission to bring new colours and materials to artists. Using black 2.0 gave the surface an unusually flat, light-absorbing finish and made the reflections feel almost suspended against it. A 3D shape painted in this looks flat, so you can imagine how interesting this is to use. I liked the contrast between the completely matte black and the highly rendered, liquid-looking form in the centre.

One of the earlier pieces where I started leaning more heavily into abstract realism and material studies rather than straightforward observational work.