Artborne Magazine September 2016 | Page 17

Carrousel, (two panels) oil on canvas on other materials like his painting rags. The colorful marks of his rags, struggled to bounce back. He had to cut back on expensive art supplies, which were used to clean his brushes, also became their own works of but it did not stop him from painting. Instead, Quino would use canart when they no longer served a purpose. vases covered in paint that he found on the side of the road, or make his own canvases from different scraps of fabric and paper. Anything he These unconventional canvases were not always selected by choice could get his hands on became a new surface for him to paint on. “I though. After endless medical bills and a recession, the whole family had this drop cloth in my s