I had a look at Gary Hume for his use of glossy house paints and the techniques he used to achieve such a nice and smooth finish to his large paintings.
He says "I use Dulux paint because its fluid and it sets, its sorta standard and recognized, its sorta of a mundane stuff that we all have old pots of it under the stairs and when you make a painting from it, it becomes beautiful it transforms itself from a mundane object to a beautiful object." i think this is partly why i liked the idea of using glossy house paints because no one really thinks of using them for painting pieces with.
i really like the way he works because there is a lot more to it then just colors and random shapes he actually looks at lots of different aspects and puts it all into a simple glossy color painting which i find interesting. This is what i need to do more of and get in the habit of actually having some sort of meaning or story behind my paintings because when i finish them and someone asks what its about i feel embarrassed too say that its just random blobs of paint and just did it for the sake of it.
