How and How Long:
- Beyond the gnome, all you need here is a tarp and some spraypaint. Here, I'm using Krylon Fusion in White.
- Apply light coats and let it dry a bit between each coat to avoid drips and bubbles.
As always with spraypaint, do it in a well-ventilated area.
- Soon you'll have your own recontextualized art piece of your very own.
Huzzah!
- NOTE: In my super quick and informal poll of a few people, nobody fessed up to ever wanting to buy one of these. My guess is that it's often a gag gift with a few folks who are brave enough and confident enough to buy them on their own. If that includes you, then my hat off to you for following your own desires. As for me, I tried placing the gnome around the house or in the garden and it just didn't work. Each spot looked wrong to me. So the only thing to do was to update the gnome.
Seeing a statue that has just one color allows you to appreciate its
form. It removes it from a regular reproduction and you can appreciate
the texture and shape of it. We've all seen many Greek statues that are
pretty much just white statues and have all thought that this was
because the Greeks were on such a higher level. They wouldn't want
colorful and gaudy statues. They appreciated the purity of line and the
reproduction of the human form, right?
Well, that turned out to be totally wrong, but the impression is still
there.
A similar rule applies to photography. Take a photo of the ocean in
color and it's a dull shot. Make ti a black and white photo and
suddenly it's worth of being framed and put up over a couch.
So what can we take away from this? We need to paint it white. You could
try black, too.
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