2569062.2

I may have forgotten to mention that 2569062 was going to get a companion piece.Partway through the first one, after doing about a bajillion dots (all by hand! With a paintbrush!) I thought, Hey, I should totally have punched out a bunch of dots with a hole punch and just scattered those on a canvas. An artist friend suggested that I do both. After finishing the painting I got going on this one--first with spray adhesive, which was both a pain in the ass and also ineffective, and then after sleeping on it for a few nights, I settled on using a gloss medium as both glue and varnish and applying the dots with a paintbrush. It worked! And I realized that I loooooouuuurrrve the two pieces together with this one so much less filled in. They tell the story that way! I really, REALLY like the contrast between the gloss medium (on and around the dots) and the straight gesso on the numbers themselves. And, I like even more the contrast between these flat numbers and the iridescence on the ones in the companion piece.