more from sketch series

 

 

showing the decoupage works...

i suppose its about time i let everyone know, since its just about 2 weeks out... i'll be having a show for my most recent works at the collective on the first friday of september. some of the works i have posted below, but many will be fresh for your viewing. so if you're in the area, check it out!

...from the Decoupage Sketch Series

here are some recent paintings I've made this summer. i'm mostly wanting to experiment and connect with the materials i am working with, learn their limits and create a particular vocabulary that i think can speak for me.

You Found MY ARt!

i'm working with Dan Kaple a little on a project he's been doing for a while now, called You Found My Art!. he and other artists in Boone have a mission to create art and hide it, releasing it to the world. This piece is a little print I did, from some old negatives of long lost family. not sure who these strangers are, but they're pretty darn cute, and we are related! and this is my art! find it, and check out dan's blog about it!

http://youfoundmyart.blogspot.com/

summer series...

i'm working on a series this summer, inspired by 1970's decoupage art.
here's what i'm talking about:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/94166164/elvis-wall-hanging-70s-elvis-art

but there will be somewhat of a painterly twist.
some of the paintings will be planned out and according to some vision i've had but many will be done in a similar vain to sketching in a sketchbook (for these the idea is for the subconscious mind to dictate the direction of the painting)

here's one of the first 'sketches' i have done. its not finished but close. i will just have to add several coats of poly urethane to give it that distinct aged look. i had a lot of fun with this and it's a mess for sure but i'm intrigued by a new direction, so i'll be running with it. stay tuned, there are many more to come.

the start of it.

this is the drawer that captivated me in my childhood. many days at the shop with my dad. oh, reminiscing.

more in prog. pictures. much more refined

 detail of shoes

 so these are shot from an installation-type work. conceptually this piece is meant to embody the loss (or shift) of innocence from the forefront of our personality as children to its settlement in the base of our skull where it pools up growing little creatures, growing green. the materials include cast bronze, twine, cotton shoe laces, thread, wood, graphite, acrylic and oil paint, cut paper...the list goes on. i'm interested in working with the interaction between sculpture and painting as they relate to one another but also serve separate purposes and recall different sensations of memory. i have still some logistics to work out with the stand (i'll be fabricating one soon i hope_) and the painting is still being developed. more pictures to come i think .

 detail of bird form (this is actually two birds which have been sewn together, burnt out of an investment mold and then cast in bronze), it's hard to photograph these so you can see both birds.

detail shot of the painting