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Saturday, December 18, 2010
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Orion/Members' Exhibition
Presenting: my first finished painting since graduating!! Woo!!
Orion
is his name.
Started over the summer with a form outlined in modeling paste, I finally got to working on it a few months after moving.
I went through a lot of emotional pushes and pulls with the piece; feeling like I was trying to revive all the techniques I had taught myself and refined over the last year while drawing in new materials (plastic). Working with acrylic was frustrating, since I had just spent so much time being intimately familiar with oil paint; I felt like I was learning how to paint all over again. (Admittedly, the acrylics I was working with are crappy)
As far as idea and concept goes, I felt at the lost. Orion gained his name from the Orion Nebula, its form mostly. The form came from somewhere in my subconscious...honestly, it feels almost womb-like. When I started painting again I turned to the gigantic Universe book for inspiration and realized home closely my form resembled the nebula. The color took form from there.
The plastic was a new thing for me and I am experimenting with it in some other piece right now. Considering environmentalism, reuse and recycling, the worthlessness of trash and of plastic, human waste and the bastardization of Mother Earth, etc.
But what about the Daoist ideals I held so dear? Well, I have not abandon them, as they have I gotten me where I am today and everyday before and after today, etc. But just how they will tie into this new line of work..of ideas...I just don't now where I am going from here....
But this painting is a start:
It is currently in RoCo's 20th Annual Members' Exhibition. Look at the professional looking tag! Nothing I presented in school was labeled that nicely. And the yellow dot? Someone liked it enough to vote for it for the Members' Choice Award! Granted, several other pieces have 4-6 dots, but it felt good to know that at least one person liked it.
And here is the wall it is on and the other wonderful work it shares space with:
Orion
is his name.
Started over the summer with a form outlined in modeling paste, I finally got to working on it a few months after moving.
I went through a lot of emotional pushes and pulls with the piece; feeling like I was trying to revive all the techniques I had taught myself and refined over the last year while drawing in new materials (plastic). Working with acrylic was frustrating, since I had just spent so much time being intimately familiar with oil paint; I felt like I was learning how to paint all over again. (Admittedly, the acrylics I was working with are crappy)
As far as idea and concept goes, I felt at the lost. Orion gained his name from the Orion Nebula, its form mostly. The form came from somewhere in my subconscious...honestly, it feels almost womb-like. When I started painting again I turned to the gigantic Universe book for inspiration and realized home closely my form resembled the nebula. The color took form from there.
The plastic was a new thing for me and I am experimenting with it in some other piece right now. Considering environmentalism, reuse and recycling, the worthlessness of trash and of plastic, human waste and the bastardization of Mother Earth, etc.
But what about the Daoist ideals I held so dear? Well, I have not abandon them, as they have I gotten me where I am today and everyday before and after today, etc. But just how they will tie into this new line of work..of ideas...I just don't now where I am going from here....
But this painting is a start:
It is currently in RoCo's 20th Annual Members' Exhibition. Look at the professional looking tag! Nothing I presented in school was labeled that nicely. And the yellow dot? Someone liked it enough to vote for it for the Members' Choice Award! Granted, several other pieces have 4-6 dots, but it felt good to know that at least one person liked it.
And here is the wall it is on and the other wonderful work it shares space with:
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Bosco Sodi: Artist
I have Jan and James to thank for this one..
Here is the artist's web site. I want to be making paintings this big! And throw this much paint around!
PANGAEA from La Suerte Divina on Vimeo.
Here is the artist's web site. I want to be making paintings this big! And throw this much paint around!
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