How to paint like Yayoi Kusama

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How to paint like Yayoi Kusama발음듣기

Today, we are going to be working in the manner of Yayoi Kusama.발음듣기

Specifically, her Infinity Net paintings.발음듣기

These are the paintings that really launched her career here in New York City in the 1950s.발음듣기

You'll see that we're working on, I guess what I'd say is a medium format painting.발음듣기

It will be an easel painting shortly, as you'll see.발음듣기

You'll also notice that this canvas is stretched.발음듣기

And it is already primed here. Kusama, typically, not always.발음듣기

But almost always worked on primed canvases.발음듣기

And very much like all the other artists we're discussing together in this course.발음듣기

There's not one way that Kusama made an Infinity Net painting.발음듣기

There's not one way that Martin made a gridded composition.발음듣기

So we're just exploring one approach here.발음듣기

Feel free to experiment quite wildly from this.발음듣기

All right. So what we're going to do here, first of all, is to apply a base coat of a color.발음듣기

Let that dry.발음듣기

And then we're going to work on top of that in so-called net to the gestural brushstrokes over this work.발음듣기

And in fact, because I'm pressed for time a little bit.발음듣기

And you may be, too, in the studio.발음듣기

I certainly could work in oil.발음듣기

Put on a flat coat of oil.발음듣기

But then I might have to wait a week for that oil to dry.발음듣기

So I'm going to work in a first coat of acrylic emulsion paints.발음듣기

Those are water soluble paints.발음듣기

I'm going to let that dry and use a hair dryer.발음듣기

You can dry it quite quickly.발음듣기

And then I'm going to switch to oil for the top coat.발음듣기

Rule of thumb here, one more time.발음듣기

Don't forget, please.발음듣기

It's totally fine to work in oil over acrylic.발음듣기

It is not totally fine to work in acrylic over oil.발음듣기

If you paint acrylic over oil, it's going to peel off rather quickly.발음듣기

Oil over acrylic, no problem.발음듣기

That's what we're going to do here.발음듣기

Okay. So let's talk about mixing paints here.발음듣기

I'm working with acrylic emulsion paints.발음듣기

These happen to be made by Dick Blick.발음듣기

But there are plenty of the other companies out there that make good ones.발음듣기

And what I've decided to do today Is to make a black and white painting.발음듣기

As Kusama did so many times early in her career.발음듣기

But black by itself is a little bit boring.발음듣기

At least I happen to think so.발음듣기

So I'm going to juice up this black a little bit by making it somewhat chromatic.발음듣기

I'm going to start off with a generous douse of black paint here.발음듣기

What I'm going to do is use a little bit of burnt umber.발음듣기

This is a much warmer color here.발음듣기

Kind of a dark brown color.발음듣기

Add some of that in there.발음듣기

And I'm going to make it a little bit complicated with a dioxazine.발음듣기

An organic violet color.발음듣기

Adding some of that there, as well.발음듣기

Now, black and white are colors that really overwhelm what other colors you add them to.발음듣기

So this is still going to look quite black by the time I'm done with it.발음듣기

Depending on the consistency of your paint out of the tube.발음듣기

You may need to add water.발음듣기

I don't, because this is going to be a nice brush able paint here.발음듣기

But if you're working with some artist quality acrylic, sometimes they have a heavy pigment load.발음듣기

Sometimes they're kind of toothpaste thickness.발음듣기

And you may want to add some solvent.발음듣기

In this case, some water to thin that.발음듣기

So, nice thorough mixing there.발음듣기

You can use the canvas to clean off your paint brush, your palette knife.발음듣기

Why not?발음듣기

Another thing to think about here is what is going to happen to the edges?발음듣기

Kusama usually left the priming visible on the edges of her canvas.발음듣기

And sometimes the net, the gestural composition, goes slightly over the edge.발음듣기

That's what we're going to do here.발음듣기

Again, feel free to deviate this from this model as much as you like.발음듣기

And what I'm going to do now.발음듣기

This is very similar to just the brushing technique of how to gesso a painting.발음듣기

I'm just going to stretch out this paint quite thinly.발음듣기

Quite widely here, using a lot of action with the bristles of the brush.발음듣기

Forcing that paint down into all the little interstices of the canvas here to make sure I don't have any white peeking through.발음듣기

Now, the reason I'm stretching this out is that I don't want to have a lot of texture here.발음듣기

Why?발음듣기

Well, the texture is going to come in that second coat, as we'll see shortly.발음듣기

Other things you may do, depending on your fancy here.발음듣기

You may use masking tape on the edges of your priming here.발음듣기

And what that would do is allow you to have a really crisp line between this dark violet brown color.발음듣기

Violet black color that I'm adding here.발음듣기

And the white priming visible on the edges of your canvas.발음듣기

Again, that's purely aesthetic.발음듣기

It has nothing to do with the structural dimension of the painting.발음듣기

It's really just how it looks.발음듣기

Okay. So just very quickly fanning out this nice kind of black violet layer I put on here.발음듣기

And now I'm really just barely kissing over the canvas here.발음듣기

Barely touching it.발음듣기

So I'm really smoothing out the surface and not leaving a whole lot of brushwork behind.발음듣기

Okay. And because this is an acrylic emulsion paint, it's waterborne paint.발음듣기

This is going to dry very quickly, I've painted this very thinly.발음듣기

So it should dry within an hour or something like that.발음듣기

Again, if you're in a rush.발음듣기

Using a hair dryer is a nice way to speed up this process.발음듣기

Okay, so our paint layer is now completely dry.발음듣기

And what I'm going to do next is to do some sanding here.발음듣기

I'll tell you why in a second.발음듣기

But any time you're sanding paint, you really need to make sure it's bone dry.발음듣기

Because if it's a little bit wet, then you're going to end up smearing it.발음듣기

And pulling and perhaps tearing the paint.발음듣기

So, what I'm going to do here is just work with a medium grit sandpaper.발음듣기

It's 120.발음듣기

You don't want to use something that's really rough here.발음듣기

But it's not so critical what grade you are using.발음듣기

And the reason I'm going do some sanding here is twofold.발음듣기

One, I want to matte out this surface.발음듣기

As you can see, in the way that the light is reflecting off the surface here.발음듣기

It's pretty glossy.발음듣기

And, in fact, the top coat that I'm going to put on is also pretty glossy.발음듣기

So I want to provide a little bit of interesting matte gloss relationships here.발음듣기

So I'm going to sand out the surface to matte this out.발음듣기

To provide a kind of counterpoint to the glossy top coat that I'm about to put on.발음듣기

Number two, in sanding.발음듣기

[SOUND] I'm also starting to expose the tops of the weave white again.발음듣기

So, in other words, I'm sanding off some of this acrylic paint I just put on to give me a really nice active surface.발음듣기

Not something that's so flat here.발음듣기

And you can see a little goes a long way.발음듣기

So, just very light sanding.발음듣기

[SOUND] One thing you don't want to do is sand too hard.발음듣기

Push down too hard on the edges.발음듣기

Because remember, looking at the back of the canvas.발음듣기

You have this wooden stretcher bar here.발음듣기

And if I'm sanding right over that edge.발음듣기

And I'm pushing down the canvas.발음듣기

I'm going to get a rather stupid looking white line.발음듣기

A box within a box, all the way around the painting.발음듣기

So, don't press here.발음듣기

Really just some light sanding is all we need.발음듣기

[SOUND] All right.발음듣기

So we have the canvas on the easel now.발음듣기

We're going do some work with the brush.발음듣기

And I just want to emphasize that this is not the way to make an infinity net painting.발음듣기

Kusama worked in many different ways.발음듣기

Sometimes with sanding, sometimes without, for example.발음듣기

What I've chosen to do here is to work with a titanium white oil paint.발음듣기

Remember, oil over acrylic no problem.발음듣기

The reverse, big problem.발음듣기

Working with titanium white, which is kind of a neutral white color.발음듣기

Not too warm.발음듣기

Slightly on the cool side of whites here.발음듣기

And hopefully has a nice contrast with this roughed up background here.발음듣기

So what I'm going to start doing here is just to squeeze some of this paint from the tube here.발음듣기

And you see that its consistency is very similar to toothpaste.발음듣기

Quite thick or quite pastose.발음듣기

As I'm getting a feel for this paint here, it's quite sculptural.발음듣기

In fact, I'm actually working as a sculptor here in the palette.발음듣기

Pushing this these really pastose, this really stiff paint around.발음듣기

And it's that kind of use of oil here.발음듣기

The sculptural use of oil that we're really going to be playing with.발음듣기

And my first brush load, you see here, is kind of a scoop.발음듣기

Typically, you'd wipe off excess paint from your brush to paint like this.발음듣기

I'm going to use that excess paint.발음듣기

I'm scooping that paint up, almost troweling that paint onto the brush.발음듣기

And as I'm getting ready for the first mark of the painting here, it's just going to be kind of a looping mark.발음듣기

Now I'm going to simply reload and then make a similar one of those marks.발음듣기

And we start to see that, okay, the gesture here was almost identical for those two marks.발음듣기

What kind of gesture is it?발음듣기

It's a movement of the fingers.발음듣기

The wrist is pretty much stationary.발음듣기

The elbow's absolutely stationary.발음듣기

So as we start seeing here, each one of these brush strokes is a little bit different.발음듣기

They're all off kilter, they're all cousins.발음듣기

In a way, it's the same kind of gestures here again and again.발음듣기

Slow, tracing gestures using curves of the fingers, the thumb a little bit of the knuckles here.발음듣기

Not really the wrist, not the elbows and certainly not the torso like the.발음듣기

So something serial, there's definitely something repetitious about this kind of brush work.발음듣기

There is something therapeutic about this kind of mark making.발음듣기

There are many legends about Kusama, many of them propagated by the artist herself that she would stay up for days on end, with this kind of brush stroke and a huge canvas, literally doing exactly what I'm doing right now for three days straight.발음듣기

Now, whether that's actually true or not, well, maybe we'll find out, maybe not.발음듣기

But, regardless, what I'd like you to try to do here is really lose yourself in this serial activity here as a way to quiet the mind.발음듣기

Now I'm talking here and trying to describe what I'm doing.발음듣기

But very likely in the studio, if you can really lose yourself in this activity, you won't be thinking about your job, or your children, or whatever it is, whatever kind of stresses that you have on your mind.발음듣기

Normally, you can really lose yourself in this activity.발음듣기

And this is not unique to painting.발음듣기

Some people get the same loss of inertia and escape from anything repetitious.발음듣기

Chopping wood, running, sowing, whatever it is that you're accepting what's happening here.발음듣기

You're not doing any kind of aggressive editing, you're just allowing the mind to just accept what the hand is doing here and really just to go with the flow.발음듣기

Because I'm working with paint unadulterated here, straight out of the tube, you'll notice that there's a lot of very rich impostor.발음듣기

There's some very loud tracks of the brush, if you will.발음듣기

All these bristles leaving these strokes in the paint here.발음듣기

And you'll see that in some, but not all of Kusama's work, because as I run out of this paint.발음듣기

I'll change it, I'll do something else to it, and then a different zone of this infinity net will take on a different character from a preceding one.발음듣기

It's important that these brush strokes go all the way to the edge, and perhaps over it.발음듣기

These infinity nets, they're all over a composition meaning that.발음듣기

Just kind of slow gestural, tracing mark making does indeed go all over the canvas.발음듣기

It's not something that is kind of relational composition where you're reading one part to another part.발음듣기

Instead, this entire painting will be able to of a kind, it will have a kind of optical flow.발음듣기

Couple of things I'd like to bring your attention to here.발음듣기

First of all, I'm not doing a whole lot of editing.발음듣기

I'm accepting almost every single mark that's made here.발음듣기

Also, I'm trying to really have some kind of consistency.발음듣기

Not exactly the same kind of mark, but same kind of speed, the same general amount of paint on the brush.발음듣기

Also, I'm leaving roughly the same amount of empty white space between all of these marks, but you can see that none of these are identical.발음듣기

Of course, each one is different, but they're all informed by the same general parameters of mark making.발음듣기

Where did Kusama's technique come from?발음듣기

Well, in the slide lecture this week, we talked about her hallucinations that she had as a young girl.발음듣기

But certainly, when she arrived in New York City in the 1950s as a Japanese woman, the odds were stacked rather violently against her chances of becoming a successful artist in this very male dominated New York Avant-garde, Kusama a very bright young woman.발음듣기

You better believe she did some careful looking at the other painters around her.발음듣기

And I promise you that she was deeply and very sensitively aware of the abstract paintings of Philip Guston in the 1950s.발음듣기

Guston known for his very slow anxiety-ridden kind of nervous brushwork.발음듣기

Which doesn't look identical to what I'm doing here, and what Kusama often does in her work, but rather, it's a reference for Kusama.발음듣기

The slow sculpture or sculpting type of brush stroke here.발음듣기

Because actually, if you look at each and every one of these marks here think about them as individual sculptures.발음듣기

And in fact, when you start to explore Kusama's work, you realize that she does make sculptures but all these strange little organic protrusions off of them and really those are an extension on this very sculptural process of painting that she practiced.발음듣기

Okay, so I've a nice start here, and we can see some really beautiful texture being developed here, a lot of really bizarre and interesting little nnoks and crannies.발음듣기

These voids, these black voids in there.발음듣기

But I am going to use something a little bit different.발음듣기

Adding a little bit of a material called Maygilp.발음듣기

Maygilp has been used since the Italian Renaissance and you can see it's thick, kind of this honey consistency.발음듣기

But you can see it's like adding honey into your paint here.발음듣기

And it's going to soften the texture of the paint considerably.발음듣기

So, this next area of the painting that I'm going to be working with, is going to have more of a buttery consistency, rather than that toothpaste consistency of our first paint application.발음듣기

Kusama would more typically doing this, adding some more medium to her paint in a different hour of painting, let's say.발음듣기

So that although the infinity net is relatively consistent in terms of the color in terms of the brushwork, etc.발음듣기

The paint itself does have these does have these rather nebulous zones floating around within it.발음듣기

And what you'll notice in a studio, when you start adding more medium into your paint, whether it's maygilp, as I'm working here, or perhaps Venetian turpentine, another medium.발음듣기

Or just more binder, more linseed oil or poppy.발음듣기

The oil is that the feed back from your own hand has changed.발음듣기

And be sensitive to what this paint feels like.발음듣기

Because it's really part of the process as I'm feeling out this canvas, as I'm allowing painting to really grow in front of me here.발음듣기

The friction this really slow, solid, mark making that I started out with here has been replaced by something much smoother, much softer and much more buttery again, here.발음듣기

So that you hand knows that, and as you're becoming a better painter, now when you look at that paint, you should be able to know, that's what that paint feels like.발음듣기

And this is going to help you when you start going to museums and galleries, and you start understanding how some of these gestural paintings, the aesthetics that the artists are dealing with, have so much to do with the way their body moves with the way.발음듣기

That they've prepared the material to track the different actions or gestures of the body in different ways.발음듣기

So, even though my hand is moving in the identical way, as I did earlier here the pain feels different, the paint looks different, and really, this is the name of the game here.발음듣기

This is how this painting is going to grow in an organic way.발음듣기

Okay, and for the third application here, sticking with nice titanium white here.발음듣기

But now I'm just going to use good old fashioned linseed oil.발음듣기

This is the binder that's already in this paint.발음듣기

So, I'm just going to give it a haphazard nice generous douse there.발음듣기

And again, I'm not going to be to methodical about blending this paint perfectly.발음듣기

Because in fact, I like the fact that each one of my brushstrokes are a little bit different here, so, I’m just going to get some of that nice juicy medium in there.발음듣기

And this is good enough, a kind of heterogeneous, incompletely mixed, blobby kind of slimy mixture of this paint.발음듣기

And this heterogeneity is what I'm actually going to capture here.발음듣기

What I'm also going to capture is a different geometry of my hand here.발음듣기

Because everything I've been doing, I happen to be right-handed, everything has a certain logic to it, based on how a right-handed person is going to move the knuckles and the wrist, so on and so forth.발음듣기

I don't want that to inform the entire painting.발음듣기

So rather than paint left-handed, although you could do that if you're feeling daring I'm just going to change the orientation of the painting, and I'll continue to do this a couple times throughout the painting.발음듣기

So that, again, it's one more variables that each one of these little zones Within the entire infinity net composition is imparted with a slightly different character.발음듣기

And now I'm going to carry on painting exactly the same kind of gestural slow brush mark that I made before, but look at that already.발음듣기

You'll notice that because this is so poorly mixed, intentionally poorly mixed that it's falling off of my brush.발음듣기

It's going to have a slightly lumpy, moving blobby kind of a texture.발음듣기

Great, I'm accepting everything here, and that's the name of the game.발음듣기

Work with it, don't try to force it to follow any kind of preconceived notion of what the painting should look like, and allow it to be translating your hand in different ways as you move across the canvass.발음듣기

Okay, so after a nice course of painting here, a painting that could be finished or could keep going.발음듣기

Couple things I want to draw your attention to, first of all, these different zones of the painting that each have their own character.발음듣기

This area here, you can see these dry brush marks, which really highlight the texture of the canvas, at the end of those brush strokes contrast that to a much more richly painted area that has some really thick, kind of blobby soft areas of paint.발음듣기

And then, contrast that to some more thick paint, but here the texture is much heavier.발음듣기

We have a much more crisp kind of impasto there, kind of a crackle of the paint as you have some of these real stiff spikes of paint peaking up.발음듣기

The reason for changing that consistency is that, okay, this is an all over composition, but it doesn't get boring.발음듣기

Because your eye has no center of gravity here, your eye kind of, restlessly moves around this canvas, and it's not the same, so that, wherever your eye roams, there's always something really satisfying for it to appreciate.발음듣기

This is the reason why Kusama's painting work when they're real small.발음듣기

When they're medium format, or when they're huge and almost environmental.발음듣기

Other things to think about, some Kusama paintings are not painted as thickly as this.발음듣기

Some are actually quite thin, others are thicker than this.발음듣기

So start to think about how you want to handle your paint.발음듣기

Also, this painting is not necessarily done, sometimes what she does then is to go back into these black holes, if you will, with something really dilute, and to color them, or to make them glossy, or to make them matte.발음듣기

So that essentially what we are dealing with is a figure and a ground, only two part painting, but she does very, very complex handling of that figure and that ground.발음듣기

So a painting here looks really simple, white on black in the beginning but as we start to test our hand and also our eyes on them, we realize that there's actually a lot of complexity here.발음듣기

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