I was commissioned to paint a painting using Rosalind Franklin’s x- ray diffraction image of DNA which proved the double helix of DNA as inspiration. See image below.
I used acrylic and spray paint for this project. Acrylic paint dries very fast and when you need very straight edges an artist can use tape on top of the paint to get a straight line. I liked the way the spray paint would soften the edges of the image and it made using the stencils easier.
I started by creating two stencils. There was quiet a bit of measuring and planning to get the images in the correct place. For the image of the DNA I used spray paint. The background colors are acrylic.
