Guerra Fine Art

Shimmer

Jun 15th, 2010 // In: Artwork, Artwork, Blog, Featured, Portfolio // By: adminComments 0

©2010 Anthony Guerra

Lately I’ve been producing a lot of work but, admittedly, it’s been a bit of a challenge due to the surfaces I’ve been working on. About 5 years ago the mill that was producing the Crescent Hi-Line series of illustration boards shut down and the surface I grew to absolutely love was discontinued. -sigh- This left Crescent with the daunting challenge of trying to reproduce the board that many artists used. Well… they tried and failed miserably. Today, if you order Crescent Hi-Line Boards from your favorite are supply warehouse you will get a board that is called “Hi-Line” but I can assure you that it’s nothing like the original board.

About 2 years ago I talked to my good friend Lorenzo Sperlonga about the situation and he recommended a German board called Schoellershammer and, although it was Crescent Hi-Line it filled in rather nicely with a few adjustments – but still – I miss my old surface and I would happily pay anyone that might still have a stash in a closet somewhere of the old Crescent Hi-Line 9208 Illustration Board. There has been absolutely no substitute.

So, as of now, I still use the Schoellershammer boards and varying Crescent illustration boards. I’ve called Crescent to see what I can do to provide input to them on the adjusting of the quality of their so-called “Hi-Line” surfaces and they’ve agreed to provide me with what they need to to test new surfaces so they can make adjustments. We’ll see how this goes.

Which brings us to “Shimmer”…
This piece went through some trials and tribulations on the capacity of water I used to drench the surface but all-in-all, with many adjustments, I’m satisfied. Bottom line… an artist will paint where he/she needs to to make it work. A painting is a concept put together by a series of mistakes that a great artist knows how to fix. I’ll figure it all out. Enjoy.