January 29, 2011: Jason Cardenas Painting Demonstration

On January 29, ArtSource Fine Art Gallery hosted abstract painter Jason Cardenas for a painting demonstration in which he worked on two 36x36 canvases. Cardenas began by explaining his methods of preparing his canvases and the layering process he uses to build up color and texture. Working primarily in acrylics, Cardenas uses palette knives, putty knives and brushes to apply his paints as well as to later remove layers and expose parts of the composition which were covered. Detailing and lineal elements are often added using pastels and numbers or letters are created using various stencils and acrylic mediums. Cardenas' composition, when completed, are organic brilliantly colored compositions which seem to flux as the layered colors play off each other. Cardenas' is especially in tune to the balance in his compositions, of plains of color and bursts of lineal energy. 

The accompanying exhibition of works by Jason Cardenas is on display through February 4.