turning and turning.

It’s been a fairly busy last couple of months, so let me get things up to speed.  Three weeks ago I was a part of a group show called More Than My Day Job.  I had three pieces up:

I had the latest female figure, an old cup piece, and an gray piece (in the top left).  I ended up selling the small gray one in the top left.  This was a very laid back affair.  I had a good time, a few beers, and a chat w/ a bunch of other artists.

Shortly thereafter, I was turned on to the idea of having work in the Tribute Gallery for April.  I launched into quite a few new pieces at a time.  I think at one time I was working on 7 different pieces.  Initially I was following a much loser painting method:

This required the paint to be very thin, and I was just letting it go where it wanted.  At the time this seemed pretty cool, but I quickly learned a couple of things: this method requires a lot of drying time, especially between colors.  This will warp the canvas.  I continued to play with this, with mixed results.  It was probably a bad idea to launch into this new style right with the intent of having interesting pieces come out.  But, the one good thing of working like a wild man, is something is bound to give.  I ended up with quite a few piece.  The show for April, which open April 1st, is a large group show.  I think there will only be two pieces from each artist.  So, I aimed for smaller pieces. Initially, I planned on bringing these down:

I ended however, ended up dropping off 3 others:

In the end, i have no idea as to what will actually be up.  I’m not worried either way.  I’m just glad to have found a path to finish some pieces.  I’m most attached to the red one w/ a wine bottle.  Interesting thing about all these though, is that they are done mostly with tape, and dropping liquid paint on the canvas.  The most actual brush work went into the ’7′ of the last picture above.  Overall, it’s been a very chaotic couple weeks of painting all the time.  I don’t have nearly as much to show compared to what I was painting.  I paid all this time for learning new stuff about the paint and applying it.  I’m going to regroup after this show and launch into some new pieces trying to maximize the methods I really ruined in the last couple weeks.  I also need to re-visit my tape and paint supplies; plus I’m out of canvases.

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~ by ruleaux on March 30, 2010.