My work should always be a tension between illustration and abstraction, dreams and reality, the sacred and the profane. This paradox is truth. Truth is holding two negating forces in balance as a yin and yang. Is this a battle or a cooperation. I saw the poster for the Broadway show “Wicked” and think , […]
I occasionally go back and read my own blog as it is easy to forget day-to-day, why you are doing a particular thing. The current effort is to LEARN how to work this new material of plastics. So I have been cutting up pre-existing shapes using plastic models, the reshaping, gluing and then painting. The […]
You could call this “what is it , part II”. My approach to the work lies somewhere between the gestural and the reactive and the literal illustrative. I am thinking now about how my bomber painting came into being and my car painting. before they were crafted, I drew a little chaotic thumbnail that was […]
In my previous post I questioned how I want to treat the surface design and I have close to a pretty good answer on this, but now the quest is, what is the underlying story. I just realized that my works always will need an underlying story, it is what brings meaning to my effort […]
Awoke this morning with the question of purpose and direction for the latest work. I showed it in its current state to a a friend yesterday and it was met with Luke warm reception. First off I need to identify my audience, MY audience. Who will connect with ME. My work has been spooky and […]
I realized this morning that I am deconstructing, but does this make me a Deconstructivist? I did some study this morning and one of the keys that hit me was embodied in this quote. Through the deliberate dismantling of structures, we create an environment that is both disturbed and fertile for new links and emergences […]
I’ve been shutting my eyes and creating a lot of ideas lately behind the screen of my eyelids — and one that seems to have teeth jumped forward. I love the forms crafted by the shapes of these models deconstructed. So I will continue to put this forward. But the question is not so much […]
I have a few process ideas in mind. One is to randomly fuse some shapes in Blender, the 3d modeling program, take some screenshots and use those as the basis of another work. But that is purely random and may or may not yield good results. The next idea is to collage drawn objects together […]
Like all good gunfighters know, you’re only as good as your next fight. As I close in on the finish on this piece, I have received wonderful applause, and I love that. However. It can be limiting. The first one has no boundaries, you just kind of proceed into the work blindly and on faith. […]
Expressionism or Futurism or a hybrid. “Neo-Futurism”? 😛 I cannot help but find myself going back to the voodoo elements to the works. I saw a hand evolving from the clouds. It’s helping me to get a sense of how I bounce back and forth between the purely abstract and the emotional totems. I will […]
Almost forgot to vent these, I left them uncovered last night to dry, but thankfully this morning they were still wet enough to poke. Not certain about the finish here, and if the pedestand should be one piece. I guess it should be so I best cover again when I get home. Stopping by Granny’s […]
My first experience with a slip ball and it came out nice. The effect is to represent something akin to the set design from “Queen of the Night” in Amadeus, but also references the concept of stars and pearls. The Queen of the Ways represents a symbolic work that is the tragic collision of industry […]
I just crossed over that hump and am finally starting to get a flow around this development. Went out sketching on Sunday night at Cocoa Cinnamon cafe and finalize some of the details around this work. Still need to attach a head of course, and the detailing on this could take a week, but now that […]
Swimmer one of three completed this weekend. Started a new corset form and fired two bisque and 1 glaze. Will aim to complete another swimmer this weekend, and finalize a corset form. Working on researching in the background as well. Started a texture and color sample sheet and started reading my Slips book . May […]