wildscape. literary journal

Title: Grey Day Disaster 8 // Artist: Edward Michael Supranowicz

about the piece

Materials used: digital painting Methods: Starting with a blank digital “canvas’ on GIMP.  I use variations and adaptations of traditional painting methods to achieve the result I want, I/e, lay in background color and shapes,, then work in layers and use the digital equivalent of glazes, washes, etc. I work intuitively  and use somewhat poetic titles, which in themselves are intuitive. A gray day may be a disaster by being gray, but does not have to be. The day could just be overcast, somewhat depressing, but not a disaster. But anything that happens to go wrong can take on shades and shadows of grayness,and turn the day into a gray day disaster. Anytime I explain, clarify, or amplify things, I feel  a bit of falseness, pretension, because clarity is a claim to omniscience, a usually unfounded or mistaken claim.

about the artist // Edward Michael Supranowicz

Edward Michael Supranowicz is the grandson of Irish and Russian/Ukrainian immigrants. He grew up on a small farm in Appalachia. He has a grad background in painting and printmaking. Some of his artwork has recently or will soon appear in Fish Food, Streetlight, Another Chicago Magazine, The Door Is a Jar, The Phoenix, and other journals. Edward is also a published poet who has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize multiple times.