SEpt 30..

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serendipitously.......

Two prints......both have multiple layers......the top one......second layer covered the entire piece with the lemon yellow color.......then built on top of it......
Bottom one.......had a lot of trouble resolving this.......finally after around 6 layers went with a simple white turn........the red happened serendipitously.

End of September........

Today's print......

These are prints from yesterday afternoon.......experimenting with printing on Canson paper....
I like the quality of the paper and ink together but the paper wrinkles and is a bit difficult to work with......

Barter.

I used the ink from yesterdays print (too lazy to clean off the plate) to make the background......built the figures into the lines created from the roller....

Saturday I am doing an outdoor thing at the DUMBO arts festival where I am bartering prints.........I need a new garage roof if anyone wants to barter for any part of that service.......or perhaps some paper to print on........

Sunday is the closing day of the Governors Island art Fair.........sad this is ending, it was a truly exceptional experience this year.

Overlook

I see this one as a bird on a perch overlooking the landscape........stormy day........

This was today's first print..........overprinted many layers to get this dark contrast......

reclining figure.

Two variations on a reclining figure.......the anatomy is all wrong, but thought I would post them anyway......
time to work from the model again......too much time away......

Safe

Sept 23.........
Yesterday had a nice crowd at the art fair......today I am painting a bit and catching up on the wedding photo stuff I shot this weekend.....

Saturday at Barter Town at the Dumbo arts festival, Sunday the last day of the Governors art fair. 

Then what?  Always what do you do next with this art thing........never feel grounded or safe.  I guess that is part of this ongoing thing...........

Happy.......

Back To Gov Island today for the artfair.  Next Saturday I will be at the art thing in Brooklyn, I will post info this week...on Sunday the 29th its the last day of the city show......
Then back to the studio........focus on some new work........

This was the first image created this morning.......started with black.......

Sept 21.

running around with work the last couple of days.....back to the Gov art Fair tomorrow.  Kind of rationing paper these days, this is a half sheet......15"x22".

I have been reading about making palates so this one was a series of tones of the purplish color adding the background after the figures were established.

Self reflection......

This is an example of the original image and its "ghost", which is the ink that did not transfer from the first print.  I compressed the green form down to the oval shape to create the foreground figure on the right composition.

Last night I made the classic mistake of being judgmental about artwork I had seen, and lost my normally calm demeanor.  I thought I was over this kind of thing, but the demon struck again.......which reminds me to stay clear of stuff which gets under my skin, and try to make positive changes instead of dwelling on illusory goals and objectives........

Sorry you probably have no idea what I am talking about.....just thought I would post this so I can read it someday and remind myself I guess.

Post Industrial

Kinda looks like everything is on fire......the figure too.. maybe.....not sure.
Usually I don't think much about the "narrative".........more like I started with the figure then thought some kind of house should be in the background.
Probably just not a great image that I am trying to justify.  At first I thought the structure was a factory and the figure was looking at a relic of sorts.  Thinking of how we live in a post industrial society and what that would look like.........

communication.

This piece started as the table top on the right......thought maybe a figure by the window......something on the table......
Looks to me like communication between the plant and the figure.........

Please help.

OK, so I have a question for anyone that passes on this page. This is a painting I have been working on.  I am trying to decide if it is "finished".  My first instinct is to make all the figures the modulated blue of the center area.  But then I thought maybe this works in a different way...like it creates different planes based on the areas in yellow versus the contrasty figures...........

So what do you think?  Please be honest, and all responses will be appreciated...

Thanks!

couch

I do not think anyone is going to want this one over their couch........

Fly a kite.

I am trying to imagine this in 3 dimensions..........what materials I can make it out of, what it would look like from the back.........

Watched Breaking Bad last night, great TV but very upsetting.........ugh.......

I read about a PHD program for painting........they showed a line with objects on both sides......talking about  how the line bisected portions of time, or something along those lines.  Great concept.......but it seems like a simplistic metaphor for all of that education, and the image itself was ok if you read the concept, but otherwise had little visual excitement I think. 

Looking out..........

Over and over again the message blares
Stay in your house, everthing will be ok

Around a small hole
Is a fish named sam who asks to go home
Down into the river
Same as yesterday

The sirens mute the inconsiderate mentality
Suffering in moist nature, fragrant incompetence

Trials punish the guilty
We are left to pick up the rest.

Dark Paper.......

Yesterday I printed on charcoal paper that was toned blue.......always the same problem with papers, the ink looks muddy and diffused.  This morning I started again with the Arches 88.......then rolled out blue to start.  The second layer was the initial marks with the dark blue color which gave the initial composition.  The final layer is the white overprint.

This was the first print I did before the one above.  Here I rolled up the blue and used the roller to create the white areas by wiping out. 

Pastel paper

Today's prints are done on pastel paper.......money is tight again and I am going to work with what I have around for a while......the arches is just too expensive to purchase......
Which is good I guess, get me thinking in another direction....

This was the first print from today on the pastel paper........

These 2 prints were done yesterday as a demo for a video interview by Eric Alfredo for Fios TV..........pretty cool, we shot through the plexiglass as I was making the one at the top.

Stormy seas.

Stormy seas?  Not sure, this was an overprint, I did not photograph the first state.......I did the second run to emphasize the central figures.....

this is a rather large canvas.........something like 6x4 feet.........I am laying in the shadows and darks now after setting up the composition with the yellow oxide.  I will post the stages as I go along.

Showing this weekend again on Governors Island......I will be around on Saturday most of the day.  On Saturday night I am in a show in Westhampton.......I will be at the reception at some point.......

The link below will bring you to a shopping cart if you are interested in purchasing today' print......

Peace through Strength.......

Not for nothing but if Obama found a way out of Syria by threatening a strike and the other guy backing down I call that Genius...........

this is a small painting I have been working on for the past week or so.......5"x7" on a wood panel.  I used Venetian medium which has some really nice qualities.....

Clouds........

Today I continued the idea from yesterday.....I make the first state of the general objects with a "plate tone"  ( that is the image below.....)  Then I reroll the plate tone color to create the cloud effect....

In retrospect perhaps I should have left the minimal first print alone......but I think both work for the most part.

Painting live at KJ Farrells in Bellmore tonight, and the art fair continues this weekend at Governors Island, building 111, second floor..........

print a day.......

Missed making a print yesterday........had to run out really early to the art fair.....welcome to any new people to the blog! 

My friend Fran made this panorama of the gallery space......

Thanks again for everyone that stopped in yesterday..........I learned of a woman who has made a piece of artwork every day for many years......hopefully I will see this work someday.....and the transformative effect of that kind of commitment........

second print......

Second print from today..........the first print didn't quite work for me......not bad but seemed a bit static......so I used the ink from that print to keep the forms and some of the color as a "plate tone"  which means I used some of the color as background.

This was today's first print........here I was working with the contrast of the red figure against the cool (blue) imagery......

Governors Island art fair begins tomorrow.......

Tomorrow starts the Governors Island art fair.........I will be around all day Sunday if you would like to stop by!  Over 100 artists showing in 5 buildings.....a pretty amazing event.........

this is the piece I am showing as I was putting it together.......all the small pieces were created on the island as part of a residency I did there the last few weeks........on the opposite wall I made a "salon style" grouping of images from the art a day project.......

I am at building 111 on the second floor on the right in the back........

Branches

Print for September 5.........titled "Branches"

Last night I painted at Webster Hall as part of the QAS event they do there......these are the works..........

One of the best QAS events I have attended......really talented people from all different disciplines......


And please put on your calendar......this weekend is the opening of the 4Heads Governors Island Art Fair...........I will be in building 111 on the second floor, and will be there this Sunday until 4pm.........please stop by!

4 directions..........

east

north

 

south

west