Tonight in art news: I used my Alvin compass from Daniel Smith art supplies to block in some satellites to my mars landscape ptg. http://www.danielsmith.com/Item--i-479-010-011
sigh. pretty sure i didnt get a second interview. i may have been too honest in the interview. i do that sometimes. the 'right answers' always seem so phony. sigh. not the best job - just kinda bummed i need to start looking again. :(
sooooo, i just reFound this blog. oops. I've been working on my paneled Mars painting = which had an exciting movie tie-in when Nasa safely landed Curiosity this month (August 2012). Yay! 79 pyros all worked perfectly and space crane deployed. Nasa is now *almost* certain that Mars is rocky. more to follow.
and I'm in a deadline crunch, the only way it would appear i can finish anything, to finalize a tree painting for niece Lindsay Burn's wedding this Saturday. She found the image and sent me a b&w xerox. Plan is for family to ink their thumbs green at the wedding [thus punishing anyone brazen enough to wear white] and add their unique 'leaf' to the family tree. I've been overworking it for weeks. Adding a somewhat Mars or sunset rose orange palette to the background. Got to use my red/gold lake Old Holland paint. huzzah. so lovely. Will try to post photos soonish.
Fell asleep painting last night. Which led to smudging of Lindsey and Chad's names on the tree painting. REALLY need to be done with it. Buy some inks, look for a frame etc. oi. On the plus side, enjoying the FarScape episodes I have on in the background.
I finished Lindsey's tree ptg at 2am the day of the wedding. Surprisingly, it was dry enough to transport, frame and at the wedding - to add thumbprints as leaves. Will provide before and after photos soon.
Over the weekend the intrepid Neil Armstrong died - and my impetus to finish his green portrait was reAwakened.
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this experience is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead: His eyes are closed." ~A.Einstein
reColored Tereshkova some more. Brighter more saturated oranges and reds. Decided I should put it away for a while. On the wall. Try instead to get further along on the Mars-scape. Added a couple more white outline satellites. Waiting for solutions to present
Gesso'd up the room divider. Black of course. Broke my new staple gun the second time I reloaded it. Too bad, it was fairly easy to use in terms of stapling. Unfortunately it was not easy to reload. or open. or get the staples out if jammed. Question now is = do I get another one of the same make and hope for better luck? or go onto the next or old style. we shall see.
Gesso'd a new Mars Orange panel. Can't recall now if the originals were acrylic gesso or Oil Ground. Probably the former, as the Oil Grounds work better on smaller wood pieces. Meanwhile, it occurs to me I need to fabricate the Samhain Wings ASAP. Because soon after = BFactory openhouse. Yoikes. I can hear the whizzing noise of the deadline starting its engines.
2 weeks til open house. painting alot. wiping off a lot. headway? - some. Wondering? will finishing a new large painting really be whats needed for the open house? or is that just normal deadline procedure? should I be focusing on "giclees" or will that dilute the value of the originals? should I be painting smaller paintings? probably. but im not really focused on that. Just orange and mars and why its sooooooooo hard to paint damned elipses. gah.
Never has one person worked so long for so little production. i have more paint on my clothes than the canvas. keep drawing and wiping it off. damn last panel- i added after the fact. gah.
So. The annual open house has come and gone. The one that takes me by surprise every year even though its always the first weekend in December. The one that happens a week after Thanksgiving - so i can stay up all night every night before and after the holiday.
There was lots of rushing. Got some archival prints made at the last second from a local photographer. Good news! the metallic inks in the paper make the silvers and whites look fantastic. Not so great news - the Gemini astronaut piece is missing a lot of details that should be seen in the black sections...And i paid a pretty penny for them - and sold one 8x10. To a 10 yr old boy. That kid rocks.
So what did i do? spent more money to get some framed. Well, not quite/ almost: one mounted on wood from a co. in maine as a ThankYou gift for the previously mentioned IT guy/my muse/my roadie/my love. Who btw quite a few people 'assume' is the artist during the exhibit. While friendly and charming, He has yet to broker any sales at all -so I cant quite leave him alone and in-charge-alas. So, one print matted and one floated on matboard cuz i wanted to keep the 'price points' low...for the art patrons. right.
I also, in the last couple days before the openhouse retouched and finished up the small nerf/nerd gun oil paintings / astronaut portraits - Tereschkova in orange and Armstrong small study and medium piece on woodpanel in green.
Also had my Exceptional IT guy [jb] put together a slide show of the pieces being created at different phases. So I could watch and see where i overworked it when I should have stopped and been happy. "arbeiten Orchestrierung in Überarbeitung: Sturm und frustriert"= a cautionary tale of frustration and lunacy.
Still -Overall I had a good time - in-spite of my stress in getting there. I met some interesting people - got a lot of bizarre looks from holiday craft shoppers who stuck their heads in my door-and all the 7-12 year olds who appreciate my art and studio and mostly my small collection of space squirt guns and most of all my green nerf gun. I talked to some vets who appreciated my phantom f4 piece, some kool geeky grrls who liked my dna piece and asbergered/fanboyed out with a handful people - who really are my people- and should be buying more of my art. Also had my first couple of DrWho references - I like David Tennant but really only watched the Torchwood spinoff. Did get some interest in my unfinished Mars Satellite Farm ptg And I got to see a lot of great friends-old and new.
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ReplyDeleteTonight in art news: I used my Alvin compass from Daniel Smith art supplies to block in some satellites to my mars landscape ptg. http://www.danielsmith.com/Item--i-479-010-011
ReplyDeletesigh. pretty sure i didnt get a second interview. i may have been too honest in the interview. i do that sometimes. the 'right answers' always seem so phony. sigh. not the best job - just kinda bummed i need to start looking again. :(
ReplyDeletesooooo, i just reFound this blog. oops.
ReplyDeleteI've been working on my paneled Mars painting = which had an exciting movie tie-in when Nasa safely landed Curiosity this month (August 2012). Yay! 79 pyros all worked perfectly and space crane deployed. Nasa is now *almost* certain that Mars is rocky. more to follow.
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I'm in a deadline crunch, the only way it would appear i can finish anything, to finalize a tree painting for niece Lindsay Burn's wedding this Saturday. She found the image and sent me a b&w xerox. Plan is for family to ink their thumbs green at the wedding
[thus punishing anyone brazen enough to wear white] and add their unique 'leaf' to the family tree. I've been overworking it for weeks. Adding a somewhat Mars or sunset rose orange palette to the background. Got to use my red/gold lake Old Holland paint. huzzah. so lovely.
Will try to post photos soonish.
Fell asleep painting last night. Which led to smudging of Lindsey and Chad's names on the tree painting. REALLY need to be done with it. Buy some inks, look for a frame etc. oi. On the plus side, enjoying the FarScape episodes I have on in the background.
ReplyDeleteI finished Lindsey's tree ptg at 2am the day of the wedding. Surprisingly, it was dry enough to transport, frame and at the wedding - to add thumbprints as leaves. Will provide before and after photos soon.
ReplyDeleteOver the weekend the intrepid Neil Armstrong died - and my impetus to finish his green portrait was reAwakened.
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this experience is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead: His eyes are closed." ~A.Einstein
last week= added deK coloring to Valentina portrait. then overworked it. brought it back. overworked it. repeat as nec.
ReplyDeletereColored Tereshkova some more. Brighter more saturated oranges and reds. Decided I should put it away for a while. On the wall. Try instead to get further along on the Mars-scape. Added a couple more white outline satellites. Waiting for solutions to present
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ReplyDeleteGesso'd up the room divider. Black of course. Broke my new staple gun the second time I reloaded it. Too bad, it was fairly easy to use in terms of stapling. Unfortunately it was not easy to reload. or open. or get the staples out if jammed. Question now is = do I get another one of the same make and hope for better luck? or go onto the next or old style. we shall see.
ReplyDeleteGesso'd a new Mars Orange panel. Can't recall now if the originals were acrylic gesso or Oil Ground. Probably the former, as the Oil Grounds work better on smaller wood pieces. Meanwhile, it occurs to me I need to fabricate the Samhain Wings ASAP. Because soon after = BFactory openhouse. Yoikes. I can hear the whizzing noise of the deadline starting its engines.
ReplyDelete2 weeks til open house. painting alot. wiping off a lot. headway? - some. Wondering? will finishing a new large painting really be whats needed for the open house? or is that just normal deadline procedure? should I be focusing on "giclees" or will that dilute the value of the originals? should I be painting smaller paintings? probably. but im not really focused on that. Just orange and mars and why its sooooooooo hard to paint damned elipses. gah.
ReplyDeleteNever has one person worked so long for so little production. i have more paint on my clothes than the canvas. keep drawing and wiping it off. damn last panel- i added after the fact. gah.
ReplyDeleteSo. The annual open house has come and gone. The one that takes me by surprise every year even though its always the first weekend in December. The one that happens a week after Thanksgiving - so i can stay up all night every night before and after the holiday.
ReplyDeleteThere was lots of rushing. Got some archival prints made at the last second from a local photographer. Good news! the metallic inks in the paper make the silvers and whites look fantastic. Not so great news - the Gemini astronaut piece is missing a lot of details that should be seen in the black sections...And i paid a pretty penny for them - and sold one 8x10.
To a 10 yr old boy.
That kid rocks.
So what did i do? spent more money to get some framed.
Well, not quite/ almost: one mounted on wood from a co. in maine as a ThankYou gift for the previously mentioned IT guy/my muse/my roadie/my love. Who btw quite a few people 'assume' is the artist during the exhibit. While friendly and charming, He has yet to broker any sales at all -so I cant quite leave him alone and in-charge-alas. So, one print matted and one floated on matboard cuz i wanted to keep the 'price points' low...for the art patrons. right.
I also, in the last couple days before the openhouse retouched and finished up the small nerf/nerd gun oil paintings / astronaut portraits - Tereschkova in orange and Armstrong small study and medium piece on woodpanel in green.
Also had my Exceptional IT guy [jb] put together a slide show of the pieces being created at different phases. So I could watch and see where i overworked it when I should have stopped and been happy. "arbeiten Orchestrierung in Überarbeitung: Sturm und frustriert"= a cautionary tale of frustration and lunacy.
Still -Overall I had a good time - in-spite of my stress in getting there. I met some interesting people - got a lot of bizarre looks from holiday craft shoppers who stuck their heads in my door-and all the 7-12 year olds who appreciate my art and studio and mostly my small collection of space squirt guns and most of all my green nerf gun.
I talked to some vets who appreciated my phantom f4 piece, some kool geeky grrls who liked my dna piece and asbergered/fanboyed out with a handful people - who really are my people- and should be buying more of my art. Also had my first couple of DrWho references - I like David Tennant but really only watched the Torchwood spinoff.
Did get some interest in my unfinished Mars Satellite Farm ptg
And I got to see a lot of great friends-old and new.
Bonus! the heat worked.