Cont... Swamp Thing.

Remember this? The continued work on Swamp Thing.

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.

More experimentation.

This picture is so glossy it's kind of a challenge to get a decent shot of it. Anyway, it's encaustic wax layered with glossy clear acrylic. A big no-no apparently. But so what. I tried this same technique with another painting & the acrylic peeled off like a giant sticker. So far this Frankenstein of medium is adhering.

In general I'm not feeling the encaustic. It's a lot of work for a blurry uncontrollable shmear of color. Evidently I have not mastered the art of the encaustic.

This painting is titled "Test, test" & is 12"x16".

Today I'm working on fixing the bastard, unfinished & ugly paintings that I have laying about before buying more wood panels.

Idle hands and all

"It is in your self interest to find a way to be very tender"... My Jenny Holzer inspired tapestry for my brother. All this petit point takes forever. 4 months = 1/3rd complete.

Today's project: swamp thing

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

Swamp Thing 16x16

Recently completed

Everything is completed until it's no longer completed. Which is basically the more I stare at it the less completed a painting becomes. Did Ingres feel this way about Odalisque? Her body is so oddly long after all, surely he noticed this himself.

The blue is a commission yet to be named 36x48
The orange is "grey fire morning" 24x24
The white + copper is "Soledad" 48x48

A whole new way...

Trying out a new toy to show off a newish technique. No more polymer finish, now it's a glossy acrylic. Less fume-y, more indoors friendly. This painting therefor is named "a whole new way" 24"x24"