the beat gones on
I’ve picked up my pace a little. I’m not entirely sure why–most likely just from having little to show for my efforts to this point. On the positive: I’ll have work in small show this weekend–most of which will be old stuff with one new piece from this year. I’m actually excited to see all the other artists’ works and talk a little jive over a beer. Anyways on to what I have now:
I want to start with this one for a couple reason: First this was the first thing I’ve finished of the new stuff. Second, I put the most time into this and I’m really happy with its direction. This is on the smaller side 12×18 I believe. For what is, this took a lot of time and energy. I had to let these lines dry before I could paint over them. I’m happy with the direction I was able to get out by just using white and black. The background is very plain.
So for this, I tried to imitate the piece above it. But, as it was unfolding, it looked terrible, so I had to cover it w/ black and move on. Where this black splatter is, I had some lines moving attempting to generate motion. It was a big failure, but I got over it quickly, threw some paint at it, called it a day. This canvas is nearly 6 months, with something rather dear to me under it, that I couldn’t quite execute. But now, it’s just another piece of sofa art waiting to find a place in my living room. this guy is big, 36 by 24.
Finally, this. I wanted this to be a portrait and worked on it as such, but I was having a hard time w/ it so I just painted over and moved on. I tried some new stuff w/ a decorative stencil I built to give it a wall paper feel deep in the background. This was also a chance to play with curves and my french curves. It’s 24×18.
Hopefully I’ll have some new stuff in a couple weeks. I’m going to try to use what I’ve learned on these two, to push forward.
