User:Looking4rig853

Looking4rig853 (wanting to stay anonymous still) is a new Vancouver, B.C. artist painting with acrylics on canvas. Working with the thickest and heaviest paints available he creates works that are meant to be touched as well as seen. The playful use of textures is done to raise an emotion from the sense of touch as much as the image itself. The paintings completed to date manage to match the texture with the image to a degree far beyond what could be expected.

So far his work has been either been loved or hated, but everyone touches the paintings and because there is such a strong emotional response the technique should be considered valid.

Here is his latest painting: "And underneath lay a heart of gold":

Is it good, is it art, ''or should he stick to his day job? ''