Another Monday another stab at the commission piece

Here we are, my day off so it's time to paint.

I'm trying to move away from the wormy color, introducing more green and ultimately bring the piece lighter. I'm also trying to incorporate more movement by using a paintbrush dipped in water amd the manner that I use my roller.

Each step gradualy builds up the paint.

Here you can see the painting panel onto which I nailed my canvas.

As always, it has to get hideous to get better. Barf. This stage looks like barf tho.

Yeah... Still not liking this much at all. I revisited the Oriental carpet that was the inspiration, and I think my colors are off. That's why I mixed up the orangey peach tone that you see above. Going to wait for this layer to dry. Then attack it again.

We're getting there but I would like to move away from the mauve.

This is getting pretty sticky to work on. Check out the closeup of the paint below, it's as viscous as taffy.

Gah! Lost my draft

Shoot. Just imagine a lot of insight into the creative mind. Bleh!

This is the commission piece for Maureen.

That's not it. Double shoot! I lost most of my work in progress pics, too!

There's this.

Then there's this... Dinner is the same palette as the comish.

Today is just not my day. Backwards progress.

Scavenger

 Why hello free canvases on the sidewalk! Let me not pass on such a fine opportunity for free materials. And thank you Sarah Blake '06 for discarding your work. Maybe many years in the future someone will X-Ray this canvas and find your crane. 

For those who are curious, I pulled the pre stretched canvas from it's frame and nailed it to one of my boards so I can work it with my rollers without getting an funny outlines from the canvas bars.

Here we go, trying something new.

I'm thinking about Maureen's oriental carpet here. 

We're doing a custom piece for her, this scavenged canvas is not necessarily it, but Maureen's carpet is my starting point colorwise.

This is a very different technique from my usual, right? I realized I needed some thick paint to cover the crane, so hello paintbrush application of your standard Utrecht brand bright white acrylic. Paintbrush and canvas? Hello classicism. I like how the wet paints are blending.

Finished!

The pillow for your sofa that matches the painting that goes with your sofa

And here it is hanging at SOMArts

More abstract needlepoint

This is a project from the back-burner. A needlepoint created by printing my painting Russian Dolls onto mesh. Enough with the painting for the day!

Revisit

Sometimes I have to change things up. Like this painting. I no longer like it. So it's getting a redo.

Orange you glad?

Today's piece is going to be just my favorite colors. I was reading about Egyptian Blue on wikipedia (fascinating, it and Han Purple are to 2 first synthetic pigments) so that's where I started. I predict this'll get a lot uglier before we're thru.

Apologies for the pictures, the wood panel is 36"x48" and hard to photo on my easel.

Busy work...

Time to gloss! (A little Giants MadBaum February on the wall)

Mixing colors cont...

Last time this was pinky red... Now it's very green. Or a bit Christmassy which I don't mind but there's still work to do.


tentatively titled "Camo"

The studio today

Red & orange... Named today after something the guy at Blow Up Lab said- "Out of Gamut".

Dogs & Winona's Eyeshadow

Just got some paintings back from a staging including this one in the background, Winona's Eyeshadow. Dogs not included.

Still working... An Yves Klein Quick Fix

...man, I need to rename this one. Shoot.

Ugly

A pair that I'm working together as a diptych. Raw umber is my go to color for covering hideousness...

Enjoy the Bandit break between the blood sweat & tears this ugly pair is wringing from me.

After Bandit, I have better feeling about where I'm going.

I call this manner of painting the Gerard Richter technique.

Today is rather overcast; my pictures keep turning out darker & darker.

I think this pair now has a name: "Bubblegum". Even the texture is bubblegummy.

Left is 12"x16", right 12"x12".

Somedays I can't stop fussing. The rain's coming down now so enjoy the reflection of my lamp in the window.

I didn't stop fussing, again.

Today's project: swamp thing

Stages from hideous to decent to boring to decent to incomplete until next session.

Swamp Thing 16x16