The Magic is Loose here on this one.
Current box paintings being finalized. Found some gallery representation and have a mid July deadline to get a crate of artworks together for an out of town venue. Will show you how it comes together.
And YES! Blogging from Camp Nyland here just outside of Syracuse NY where it is May, it is spring, and we can sit outside without survival gear. Today it's even warm and dry so making the most of it. To the right there are small sculptural forms from an incredible Foundry Workshop at the COMART Facility in 1989 with Roger Mack, Roger Bisbing, I think Clark Stallworth was there too. Just student stuff but I poured bronze for two weeks and it ruled.
On about this one today, begun December 2020 (?) called The Bristol Box, 4x4x3 inches on a plain wood craft box from Amazon. Usually used for potting plants out on the terrace or gluing decorations for a jellybean container. Now finally resolved & ready for hangers.
Some video below on how it turned out.
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Runs one minute.
Inspired by the woodland area home of the Bristol family out there in Fayetteville where we used to visit as kids. Not so much a gated community but a series of modernesque homes set in a ring of woods which had a little drainage pond and creek that always impressed me.
I like letting the painting expand onto the side so the box takes on a kind of objectness. In that sense it's also difficult to display in just a picture or two, so we do blogs.
I presume display on walls so the world should continue onto the underside as well, and I like the trope of a pond or pool spilling over with a little waterway that collects.
Backside left bare for hangars on the top edge. I even sign them now, so this one not quite ready to go just yet.
A new method I stumbled upon when making my skies is to layer a thickness of Clear Tar Gel over the Micaceous Iron Oxide Fluid Acrylic I use for the night sky. Here's a side panel before the CTG treatment.
And after. The glass clear layer acts as a sort of lens and warps the light being bounced off the tiny bits of ground up mica.
The other outer side panel with starfield in plain Micaceous Iron Oxide.
And again after the layering of Clear Tar Gel.
I'd like to go there and just sit for a while.
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I've come to think of these box artworks as a set of nine tiny paintings which have to both work together and hopefully work on their own as individual gestures. Am proud of this painting, which if memory serves has a 4 x 2.5 inch dimension.
Layering on the Clear Tar Gel, and you can see how it's more or less impossible to get a perfectly flat even coating. It's the little ripples and curves which cause the slight magnifying effect -- Stumbled upon completely by chance!
Ripples and curves in the dried Clear Tar Gel creating a lens effect that varies from patch to patch.
The sky for the main panel here has not yet been treated with the Clear Tar Gel, and you can see how the reflected light off the mica is dazzling the fone's camera.
I love drainage ditches or retention ponds, and want the painting to look like it might be wet or leak on the floor. And suggest a hybrid between painting and ceramics, so that it look like it might have been baked in an oven.
The pool is like 19+ layers of Clear Tar Gel, Glass Bead Gel, Iridescent Fluid Blue and Green, Cobalt Blue Fluid Acrylic, Manganese Blue Hue Fluid Acrylic, more Glass Bead Gel, and more Clear Tar Gel, to create a visibly deep pool that the eye looks into and has a bottom. You could dive into it.
Usually I finish off the artworks with some little figures I painted, maybe a vehicle or space craft they got stuck in the mud etc. I do like how they suggest a sense of scale here, but decided the orange suits did not stand out from the terrain.
Nice shot. That's one that could get re-formatted into a painting via projection, printing, or tracing the outlines. Saved for later reference.
But no. I can't think of why they would be there or what they might be doing. Other than a 420 out in the woods by the pond, and I gotta drive. So ...
Some of the paintings don't get the space bling and I'm proud of that, love how the reflected light dances and shimmers. I'm aware that the format of a box for a painting surface is unconventional, but they served as a metaphor for the cloistered pandemic quarantine under which the method was arrived at.
Someone suggested I apply for a mural project (didn't meet the quals & that's showbiz) and all I could think was "Well, they'd have to get me an enormous box the size of a railway car and some mannequins dressed up in space suits." I've heard of crazier things ...
Video from 2017 using artwork & music from an album by Queen drummer Roger Taylor,.
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