This is a dark, mediocre shot of my latest painting. I shot it with my phone camera.
The painting is basically a re-working of an image I did back in ’91 or so. This is in acrylic on linen. It’s 30×40, stretched over a piece of heavy cardboard that I’ve attached to a rough (cedar 1x4s) stretcher. It’s just to work on. It will get re-stretched in a bit. It’s still wet. Once it dries I’ll add a coat of medium and finish it in oils.
I’ve been spending a considerable amount of time in Mandelbulber 2. The above is one example. The texture is something I generated in 2003 (If the date on the file is correct.) in Fractal Explorer. (Which I don’t seem to be able to find a link to.)
The S.A.A. Collective no longer has a page on Artnet. We’ve set up a new page on FASO. You’ll be able to view and purchase my work at saacollectivegallery.com as soon as the page is finished. 🙂
Happy New Year, by the way.
I know it’s been a while. I’ve not really gone anywhere. Every time I do a “featured” show, I end up spending quite some time rethinking things. This time I realized that I needed to re-capture a few things from my past… drawing, cartooning… so on and so forth. I want to do things with a bit more control from the outset rather than relying so heavily on automatism. So… I’ve spent the past several months sitting on the couch and working in my sketchbook.
I do have stacks of finished and unfinished drawings all over the place now and something of an idea as to where I want to take things from here. That will likely manifest itself here in due course.
I do have a show at the David Strawn Art Gallery in Jacksonville, Illinois, coming up next month. Again, this will be with Mario Clarke and his glasswork as well as with Danny Brikshavana, who does ceramics. The opening is from 6-8 p.m. on November 2nd. If you get the urge… stop by.
Another painting from my show at S.A.A. and another in my long running series of “lunatics“. This is 18 by 12 inches… oil on paper.
Last night’s opening went really well. The place was packed, I actually made it through my talk and the artwork was pretty well received. Mario‘s glass worked very nicely with my paintings and the “linear” theme held up through most everything. (The show is called “Pathways”. It’s a sort of celebration of line.) The artwork is for sale on Artnet if you want to browse through things there.
This is the finished version of the painting I started last October. I’ve named it “Hard Bop“; seeing that it’s sort of the next generation of a painting called “BeBop” that I did several years ago.
Another painting from my show at S.A.A. This is two older paintings (I’m not quite sure which. 🙂 I tend to do these in very large batches and pick the best half dozen or so.) that I composited together in gimp using the difference layer mode. I flattened and equalized that, converted it to greyscale and printed it on oil paper. Next, I spent an inordinate amount of time painting things in. This is 18×12 inches… oil on paper.
This is another painting that will be in my upcoming show. This started life as an old, electric, organ that I was given by a local church.
I upcycled most of the thing; tore out the innards and added a shelf where the keyboard had been originally. It made a lovely computer desk. The panel that held the speaker was a piece of incredibly well seasoned, half inch plywood that was just large enough to cut to 16 by 20 inches. I covered that with muslin and painted this on top of that.
🙂 There is actually a figure in there.
I know… it’s been quite some time. I’ve been buried in the studio finishing things and really haven’t had the time to shoot paintings, type, etc, etc.
Anyway, this is the final version of On the Street. You can see it in person at the S.A.A. Collective Gallery for this next couple of months or so. You can see the final version of much of the work on this page as well as several paintings that I’ve not put up here yet. I’m doing a featured show with Mario Clarke… Mario does some very nice glass work.
Stop by if you’re in the area. The opening’s this Friday night (April 12). You can drink wine, look at artwork and even listen to me talk about my work. How that will go is anyone’s guess.
It’s been a busy month. Finalizing a dozen paintings is, um… time consuming.
Anyway… this goes to the gallery this weekend. It’s a digital print that’s 12×18 inches. I’m amazed at how much nicer the colors are in prints than they are on the computer screen.
This is something of an attempt to incorporate a bit of realism into my paintings. It represents a figure hiding behind a curtain while watching a small group of figures celebrating. It’s 22 by 28 inches… acrylic on panel.
Studio Time 