making no more sense now than before
My first painting, a 16x20 oil from Fall of 1966, when I was 13 years old, with some glaringly obvious symbology. (My bird’s feet looked like sticks until I painted over them.) I used way too much turpentine and it ran and ran. (Nowadays I mostly paint flat.) Trying to paint over dark paint with light paint is not recommended for beginners.
8th grade art class with Mr Banks, tough but fair. Actually pretty lenient since he gave me a B+ for this mess. One thing he did very well, speaking as a former teacher, he let kids make mistakes, did not get upset about mistakes, and let kids try to find their own way home before intervening.
This painting, unfortunately, has contracted irreversible mold damage and has to be destroyed. Easy come and easy go.
iPhone 5
Name Forgotten Study 1
iPhone 5
Painted a new acrylic for most of month of April. Worked on some others, but this is the one that got the time. Here a study, early in the game. Both the pale orange and the pale blue/grey have GAC mixed in, which is why they shine. Not quite dry yet.
This is fist completed painting on canvas since October of 2011. In a previous post I said almost a year, but that was a watercolor on paper. My memory is not the greatest since my surgery so I have to consult my records for things I used to be able to remember easily. Don’t laugh. You’re not immune. Time wounds all whether wearing heels or flats.
No Escape But Love from the Fires Consigned to Us Within and Without | LC-A+ | Kodak EliteChrome 200 (Xpro) | Lab: Holland Photo (Austin TX)
Smell of a World that has Burned
Like most of my paintings, not so much completed due to progress as abandoned due to sheer futility. When the painting itself seems to say “there’s nothing more that you can do.” The colors at the bottom of the canvas are not quite right because there’s not enough light. I don’t do studio photography, (just the strait and natural blue) as I pretty much just shoot available light for art photography.
Anyway, this smell is done whether it stinks or not and as first painting in over a year feels pretty damn good.
“Stink Before the Smell” has somewhat brighter color and more definition in shape than “Starting to Smell” did.
I use acrylic products from different manufacturers mixed together on the same painting. I’m sure they warn you against that in art school, but when I went to art school 40 years ago (very briefly, no degree) acrylics barely existed, nobody knew what to do with them, let alone how to teach them. Those of us brave enough and foolish enough to embrace acrylics basically made up our own rules as we went along.
So I use this polymer emulsion by Golden called GAC 100 even though I don’t usually use many Golden paints. It has a strange interaction with some of the paints I do use a lot like Liquitex and Aquacryl. It seems to affect their drying, not just retarding it, which is expected, but changing the character so that the paint dries across the entire canvas like a watercolor, not just locally.
This is fun.
-3 paintings in the next 3 posts, but really all one painting
-2 preliminary works in progress folded in to finished/abandoned painting
-final painting
(this is what I’ve been working on mostly in April instead of other Projects)
Canon SD3500 IS, Jpeg in camera
title of this version is “Starting to Smell”
Slayground
Another part painting in progress
Panasonic LX5 jpeg in camera
Finally finished one April 30, haven’t photographed it yet
Waiting | LC-A+ | Lomo Sunset Strip 100 (Xpro) | LomoLab
I’ve been working on a new acrylic painting on canvas for about a week now, every other day for a couple hours or so, part time hours, easing back into it. Feels good, but rusty. Want to reach for the computer, but no such shortcuts are available. You really do have to wait for the paint to dry.
Movement (detail)
acrylic on canvas
work-in-progress
Panasonic LX5 Jpeg in camera
Another Broken World (detail)
acrylic on canvas
Time for some digital photos of Paintings
All taken with Panasonic LX5
All very much works-in-progress
or variations to be continued
Basquiat Jean-Michel “Mr. Greedy” 1986
A masterpiece from his last, most mature period.—wakartist
(via blackcontemporaryart)
Carlo Crivelli, Annunciation with St. Emidius, 1486
From the National Gallery of London:
The town of Ascoli was under papal rule and in 1482 Pope Sixtus IV granted it a degree of self-government. This altarpiece was painted for the church of SS. Annunziata in Ascoli to celebrate the event. The coats of arms are those of the Pope (left) and the local bishop, Prospero Cafferelli (right). News of Ascoli’s new status reached the town on the feast of the Annunciation on 25 March, which then became a special feast day when the town celebrated its liberty.
It is rare to include a saint with the Archangel Gabriel in a depiction of the Annunciation. Saint Emidius, the patron saint of Ascoli, is shown carrying a model of the town. Ascoli is dominated by towers and is still recognisable today in the model which Emidius carries.
A very famous painting for technical reasons, one of earliest examples of multiple vanishing points which gives three-dimensional look and feel. Also has possible UFO depiction. —wakartist
Tribute to Roy Lichtenstein | Nikon FA | Fuji Provia 400 (xpro) | Lab: Foto 1 | Color manipulation by me in iPhoto
What Don’t They Tell You | LC-A+ | Lomo Sunset Strip 100 (xpro) | Lab: LomoLab | Painting: Impulse (or What they don’t tell you) by wakartist
Delusional | LC-A+ | Lomo Sunset Strip 100 (xpro) | Lab: LomoLab