Undead

Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Zabriskie Point

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJsW6ta4X8o&feature=youtube_gdata_player

This final scene says so much about the state of painting over the last ten years. Painting has been obsessed with blowing stuff up, wonderfully so.

Sunday, June 26, 2011

New Painting

Finished a new painting this Friday. Here are some quick pics from my phone. Finished this painting and immediately had to pack up and move out of my studio.

Saturday, June 04, 2011

Today I visited a local craft fair in Louisville, Kentucky and wandered around more interested in people watching than seeing any interesting art. At the very end of the long line of booths was this tent filled with paintings by this guy named David Walinski. I hadn't expected to see anything very interesting but was pleasantly surprised. Maybe it's because I just watched the film SubUrbia last night but I found this guys work to have a lot more character than the usual local painter.

www.davidwalinski.com

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Color Studies

I've been doing these color studies to get some ideas for color combinations. I've found the best way is to put all the colors together on one piece and see what pops. Here is an example of one (above). These paintings are kind of all over the palce but I'd like to do some more involving a narrower range of colors. For example, red and purple or green and yellow and concentrate on specific combinations of tone/color.

Monday, May 23, 2011

Recycling

So I have all these abandoned canvases and stretcher bars from years ago and I decided I had better make use of them. Above is an old painting I was working on 2 years ago that was going to be of all these geometric shapes intertwined with mutant cats and an icecream cone looking pile of poop in the middle. Admittedly a little ridiculous but would have looked great. It never quite worked out for various reasons. One of which was that I was living and working in a basement that always flooded and it was so damp that the masking tape never adhered. It seriously felt like a swamp or jungle down there. I lived under a shiny tentlike army parachute, slept on a cot and had a little drawing desk. At night with the chirping crickets and my single light on in my dark camp I almost believed I was in the jungle. It was a strange way to live and work. I'm digressing. Anyway, this canvas is getting sanded down tonight to hide the old painting, and flipped n gessoes on the fresh side of canvas. The stretcher bars on the right were from ages ago. I just recut them to 5ft. I am very excited about the painting these are being used for.