About a month ago, Ken Marquis of LandfillArt.org got in touch with me about creating my abstract art on one of the 1041 old automobile hubcaps from the 1930's to 1970's which he has reclaimed from landfills. This is an ongoing project which began with 41 artists, with another 1,000 of us joining them. If you are an artist who wants to participate, contact Ken at Ken@Landfillart.org.
Here's a photo of my hubcap before I started to paint it:
Hubcap for the Landfill Project
Ken's goals are to eventually create a book with the 1041 pieces of art, and then a traveling show with 200 of the metal canvases that best represent the project.
I took a step forward by cleaning my hubcap, but then tried to use the acrylic paint directly on it. Oops, this metal needs a special primer, not acrylic gesso evidently. But I'm not giving up. I'll peel it off and start over.
