Ebb and Flow

This installation piece is a continuation of the Muslin piece I did earlier on last semester.  With this installation I wanted to take the criticism I got from my muslin piece and change it up.  I wanted to show the flow of the material while also creating color combinations that keep your eyes moving around the piece.

 

 

My Life.

My life just got severely less crazy...thank God!  And I will be able to post a lot more often.  I plan to be making work this summer!  Tons of it.  I have already started making some collages so just you wait!

Anyways, I thought I would post some of the paintings that I have made this past semester in my Mixing Materials painting class.  I am really happy with them.  They break down the boundaries of painting has to be, at least to me, and moves away from my old work well still maintaining the same themes, subject matter, and color pallet.

I already showed off my muslin piece so here are my wax paintings, my object with painting, and my FINAL (which is my culmination of the semester).

This one is Rubber Bands encased in wax.

Close Up

This is dripped wax that had Oil Paint mixed with it.

This one is sheets of wax with Oil Paint added to it.  I then carved into it with a woodcutting tool.

My object for my painting with object was a dollar store rug that I cut apart.

And some Close Ups.

Last but not least, my final painting was almost 400 mini canvases that I made with 3" x 3" pieces of plywood and dyed muslin squares.  I placed them next to each other randomly by pulling them out of a black garbage bag.  The piece ended up being 6' x 3.25'.

I am enjoying the formalism of my latest painting work and how I am advancing the way I use my squares.

I am horrible at this posting thing....

So I know that I haven't had a post in awhile....I am just so busy right now but I hope the work that I will be posting right now and in the next few posts will make up for it.

This post is all about MUSLIN.  I had a project in a class I am taking to use an entire piece of 12' by 8' Muslin.  So I tore it into strips of all different sizes and wove it together.  I then asked for two more pieces of muslin (each a little smaller than the first), and made two more.  I filled a whole wall in the painting hallway with my installation.  It was pretty intense and took awhile.  I am very pleased with it though.

Here are some close ups of the piles of strings and the weavings.

I found this to be a very analytical way of creating work.  The thing I love though is how dying these strips caused a painting that was not analytically made but it is more spontaneous and fun.  Here are some photos from the process.

And here are some close ups of the wall.

I hope that you enjoyed.

Paul Richmond

I haven't made a blog entry in awhile and I really don't have any of my own work to post so I have decided to post a painter and maybe a couple other artists I am interested in.  This is Paul Richmond he is an amazing painter.  I like that he takes the traditional pin-up style but uses it with men instead of women.  His work prior to that is full of sexuality and religious undertones which I also find very evocative.  Let me know what you think.

Inspiration. Patrick Dougherty and Sean Guerrero.

I like making sculptures out of things that aren't very ordinary so when I saw these two sculptors I was really intrigued.  The first, Patrick Dougherty, makes huge sculptures out of sticks and tree branches.  They range from very abstract to large objects or shelters.  They are intricately woven together. 

The second, Sean Guerrero, creates sculptures out of old chrome car bumpers.  He has tons of different subjects, but my favorites are the animals.  They look so live and passionate. 

I want to do something that combines the intricately woven branches used by Dougherty and the animal subjects used by Guerrero.  I think I can pull off something very interesting...I just have to figure out what.

Sad Face (Needs a Better Title)

I am working on a photo piece of multiple images for a show at the High Falls Gallery in Rochester.  I recently experienced a death in the family and I took it kind of hard.  This piece has helped me get over it a little bit more as well as release some pent up emotion.  I want to have the photos in a frame of 3x3 or 4x3 or something like that.  I am excited about this.