I’m an artist, and here’s how to keep up with my work!
The paintings I make start out as origami, either corrugations or abstract ideas. I have been doing origami for close to 30 years (much of it without great skill), and I’ve always loved how a flat plane can create such intricate shapes of high contrast and shadow, and I’ve never really been into representational origami. I started making more origami a couple years ago, as a fidget, and some friends got very excited and said they’d take anything I make (so I didn’t have to throw it away). After several months of giving a full grocery bag of origami away every 2 weeks, and having seen several examples of painted origami that’s focused on creating illusions of dimensionality on a flat surface (specifically Tola Navarro, I’m very grateful to him for posting videos of his process and his pieces), I decided to experiment with more complex origami concepts and CYMK as a color base, because I adore it when cymk prints are slightly misaligned and show the ways the layering works. I’ve learned a lot about riding the middle ground between visually uninteresting and visually cluttered and more about geometry and trigonometry with this project than I ever did in school.
I have no formal training or experience in art or painting. I use kami paper, artist paper (Canson Mi-Tientes, Canson Black Drawing, and similar weight), kraft paper, a couple other random types of paper, a ruler, a compass, pencils, chalk, and Montana spray paint or Golden high flow acrylic paints through an airbrush. I occasionally get cheap frames for some of the better pieces.
My website is https://burnsbothends.tumblr.com/
