Daniel Liam Gill

I started this paint­ing with an acid yel­low base and red painted with a bal­loon. I asked my model April if I could use her a s brush. She’s small with great def­i­n­i­tion. I placed green and pur­ple along the edges of the paint­ing, she lied down in the paint and water mix­ture and I guided her back and forth over the sur­face three or for times until an image emerged. I then spent about 20 hours on the result, find­ing shapes and edges. This varies greatly from my nor­mal color palette. I never use an acid green like this and tried to tone it down through­out the paint­ing. I gave up fight­ing with it about 17 hours into the work and some­thing hap­pened. I used a color that matched the green and the draw­ing uni­fied. It shim­mers in the light like an insect’s wing, impos­si­ble to cap­ture with my camera.