My (Spray)Paintings

(image above: Part of Salvador Dali – spraypaint and stencil)

UPPER PLAYGROUND

THE ART OF PLAY & THE FREEDOM TO CREATE WITH LIKE-MINDED PEOPLE

THE ART OF PLAY & THE FREEDOM TO CREATE WITH LIKE-MINDED PEOPLE

THE ART OF PLAY & THE FREEDOM TO CREATE WITH LIKE-MINDED PEOPLE

UPPER PLAYGROUND – MY WORK AS A PAINTER AND SPRAYPAINTER

Having worked for years as a freelance marketeer, publicity manager and event organiser for authors and publishers, I decided a few years ago to focus more on my work as an artist.
Since then I’ve been creating almost daily. My art consists mostly of: collage art and stencil art; acrylic portraits and distorted faces; abstract paintings and abstract graff; designing and creating ‘UP-cycle pieces’.

In my collage art and stencil art I experiment with a combination of text and images, self-written slogans/lyrics/poems, eyes/noses/ears/mouths from glossies, strange images and pieces of text from magazines, leftover paint, screws and bolts, etc. I combine them with acrylic paint, spray paint, posca markers, stencils and wasco chalk.

My acrylic portraits and distorted faces on canvas. I’m painting quite a lot of portraits now-a-days. I start out with a rough sketch on the canvas using wasco pencil and then put layer over layer of acryl paint on top of each-other, sometimes using a paintknive. Until it is … finished, which it never really is. I also call them My Distorted Faces because they are a bit crazy sometimes.

For my UP-cycle pieces I give pre-used bracelets, necklaces, buttons, beads, leather bags, leather belts, etc. a new life. Often by taking them apart completely and putting them together in a very different way. So I ‘UP-cycle’ them, with a little nod to my artist name Upper Playground and my logo UP with which I sign my paintings and my other works of art.

THE CREATIVE POWER OF ART
I’ve always been fascinated by streetart, I fotograph them all over the world, and I collect paintings and Urban Vinyl Art from (upcoming) streetartists. Besides streetart and urban art, I’m mostly influenced by Popart, Japanese Superflat, manga and tattoo-art. I design stencils (sjablonen) for my spraypaintings in acrylpaint and Posca marker. After that I’m experimenting with the design for about a month with spraypaint en acrylpaint.

MY ART FOR SALE
If you’re interested in my work, or interested to work together, please contact me. See the page ‘About Me’.

To see my drawings, paintings and spraypaintings, click on the buttons below. For a selection of my work see at the bottom on this page – My Portfolio, and click on ‘Load More’.

BUYING MY ART AT ARTMAJEUR AND CATAWIKI
Some of my paintings and spraypaintings are for sale via Artmajeur, see link. And from time to time I will sell some of my drawings (litho’s) and (spray)paintings via an art-auction at Catawiki, see link.

My Drawings
My Portfolio

MY PAINTINGS AND SPRAYPAINTINGS (press Load More at the bottom):