Evespassage is an art technique that I began practicing many years ago when my art started feeling too flat and I began searching for a way to add more depth to make my paintings more futuristic looking. What I’ve found in this style of painting is that it sends a deep, concerning message to humanity, a straight forward cry from earth yelling at us to stop using up all of its natural resources. Also, to stop trashing our planet and start loving it as well as appreciating its natural beauty! I’d also like to think that when an art spectator realizes what kind of materials went in to one of my paintings; it then awakens them to start opening their eyes to the bigger picture behind the artwork. So, they’ll too start using more creative ways to recycle. 

In my opinion art can get people to start thinking more about how much litter they are producing in their own life in order to help us realizes that we all contribute to this global problem.  It’s a way to bring to surface our scary reliance on solid materials. My quest as an environmentalist is to uncover society’s dirty little habits of over consuming, and shamelessly wasting things like plastics, disposables, and paper products. It wouldn’t be such a alarming message if it wasn’t for the fact that all these materials cause a great deal of harm in our planet. These days with the way the climate is changing, and the way we keep on growing in our population, we need to start embracing any kind of practices that will help bring more awareness to our environment.  We can be lead to find new creative concepts that will help us in growing to better our planets condition.

Make Art Matter is my personal initiative and my mission as an aspiring environmental artist to share this technique with others. I plan to work along side other people in community centers, schools and establishments to develop more eco-recreational art projects for our youth. This will start showing people how visual arts can use creative recycling in art which will make a difference in many ways. In order to collaborate on projects with teachers and artist we will develop exhibitions, and murals that will mesh together environmentalism, awareness, and art to make a statement for our planet.  It’s my creative gift, a special kind of service I want to share with humanity.

 Evespassage Creative Recycling

 Texture Ingredients:Gesso, Glue, and Newspaper, access to water, canvas, board or wall? “That’s for you to decide”, materials like paper, plastic materials, foam any type of disposables “foam cups are fun”, 2 lg mixing bowl, smock, scissors, paint brush and your imagination.

Texture Process: It’s an awesome way to re-duce waste and creates art that pops and become more 3-dimensional.

•  Start with filling a large mixing bowl with gesso and few pumps of some glue feel free to eye the ingredients and obviously if your going to apply the materials to a wall your going to want to use an extra strength glue  mix up together good!
• Take a second large bowl and add some warm water then submerge your old newspapers in the water and let them soak.
• Cut it up! Take your extra materials that you want to use in the project such as your litter or materials you collected on your litter eco walk and cut them up in to shapes you want to use in your artwork.  
• First coat: Apply your first coat of gesso/glue to your canvas- for a wall I recommend you substitute the gesso for matte white exterior paint. Coat your canvas/wall nice and thick!
• Then take your materials and add them to the wall by either dipping them one at a time in the gesso bowl or painting them on to your base.
• Here is the trick! Take your newspaper once it is nice and wet and pour out your water, then pour more gesso in the same bowl soak your newspaper in to the gesso.
• Use the newspaper/gesso mixture for keeping in place the heavier materials in your project.
• After you’ve placed your materials on to the canvas/wall arrange them in any desire make sure to be creative. Go over a few times with the gesso to make sure that the materials are in place and secure to the wall.
• Allow 1-2 days to completely dry then proceed on to paint your picture or design.

   

Trash Bath, 2008 30 w x 30 h