Interview with Toly Kouroumalis
Published August 16, 2004
Chris: Which painting is your favorite?
Toly: I don't have a favorite.
Chris: Which is the one you dislike the most?
Toly: Most dissatisfied with? I haven't seen them in a while. I like that one of the hot rod.
Chris: Do you remember the name of it? Is that called Christine?
Toly: No I think it's called Jessica's Hot Rod, I was in a bar and they had a sex Olympics type of thing, and she was one of the girls that I was in the sex Olympics with. They made us do stupid stuff like she would put on a condom with her mouth. So I went home piss drunk and drew that.
Chris: When you were drawing it how did you, come up with the image in your head, in terms of the technique?
Toly: I had the car drawn from a comic book, and I just drew her in the driver's seat; but I was inspired by Ed Roth, his style but I took it to another level and made it more of a painting instead of just being flat drawings like you always see.
Chris: So it's a sort of thing where you go through and take marker and draw the car, dump her in...?
Toly: Pencils first then marker, a sharpie just take a sharpie then acrylics and then I just keep on adding layers of acrylics on top. Sometimes I go in a pencil, crayon, sometimes I don't, not in that one but in general. and then I go in and put acrylics and I like to farkles on the guys just so ...
Chris: Farkles?
Toly: Farkles, white spots on the paintings so that certain things just stand out more than the others. I just dip my rag in the paint, where I would stick my brushes and water it's all black and I just do a wash over the paintings so that certain parts in the painting get pushed back.
Chris: In this one specifically?
Toly: Yeah the car is unwashed and she isn't washed, so the car would stand out more for some reason, I don't know, I was just in that mode.
Chris: When you visualize the image, do you visualize in you head and then is it recreated on paper, or are you sort of saying....
Toly: With that one I just sort of let my hand take over
Chris: So then there are certain ones, which you have...
- Interview with Toly Kouroumalis
- Published: August 16, 2004
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- Writer: Zeke's Gallery, Montreal
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