ACRYLIC PAINTING BY ARTHUR LUGAUSKAS

Volcano

Smearing paint on a canvas

I wasn’t sure how to sign Volcano. I was even a bit nervous before doing it, because I hadn’t signed many paintings before. I lacked practice. Plus I was very novice with putting my signature over a canvas in general, especially over textured paint on a canvas.

Actually, I didn’t even know whether or not I should be signing over textured paint to begin with.

But the texture was there, in the lower right of the canvas, which is where I planned to sign the painting. That’s life sometimes.

Just like that, the time came, and there I was, faced with getting my signature on this canvas.

Now, yes, I could’ve just not signed the front of the painting, or signed somewhere else, or better yet just signed the back of it (which I did) only.

But NO, I chose to make sure I sign the front, because for this series of paintings I decided to sign the front of each canvas, on the lower right.

And so it was time. It was time to just do it! And I went for it, my signature began. I used a pen and it was a bumpy ride. Blup, I misgauged the starting point, and ended up with oversized first letters of my…