Zine // Paint

Sawdust create a paint typeface as studio experiment

Sawdust, aka Rob Gonzalez and Jonathan Quainton, have just released the fruits of one of their recent studio projects, making a typeface from acrylic paint that uses folds and shadows to examine “dimensionality.”

Ryan Hopkinson and Andrew Stellitano’s Strokes celebrate the start of artistic endeavour

Their current project, Strokes, is a series of five images that seek to define a single paint stroke as a physical structure. “The project initially started with the discussion of painting and how/why specific works can be defined by movement, style or history,” says Ryan. “Our conversation progressed to the point where we thought about that first paint stroke and if you could define a piece of work from it.”

The strokes appear suspended in mid air, and it is difficult to discern the scale or the purpose of the movement of each. “Each stroke is completely unique and hand made, we tested a varying range of materials to find the most flexible and durable as we wanted to flex and skew each stroke at will,” says Ryan. “I think the hardest part was getting the texture looking correct. We needed to delicately apply each look to create a diverse range to sculpt and then shoot.”

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