Special Addition Blog Post: Michael Hedges

     Four weeks ago our class went to an artist talk at our on campus gallery. The artist that had came in to talk was Michael Hedges. He's an abstract painter that uses various types of techniques to create different colors and textures on his paintings. One of his paintings that caught my eye in particular was a piece that he had done on linen. the brown color of the linen definitely made it stand out among the others that were mostly done on canvas. What was interesting to me was that he would take a large piece of linen and paint on the front and the back and would cut out certain parts that he thought could be paintings. The fact that he painted on the front and the back gave a matte effect to some of the strokes of color that were done on the opposite side.