CLOSE

Enjoyed this interview on Fresh Air with Chuck Close where he talks about grids, among other things. One thing I remember, Close says that he is basically a sloppy, disorganized, maybe lazy human being, and so, by employing the grid in his giant methodical paintings, he could go against his own nature and forge something elegant and new. (I'm paraphrasing big time, but you get the idea.)

WHAT BASQUIAT'S WORDS DO

Thinking about what words do in art, I come back to Jean-Michel Basquiat. I'm drawn to how his words are texture, and also emotion, I feel no need to read or decipher them to understand them.

Top: Bird on Money

Bottom: The Daros Suite of Thirty-Two Drawnings,

(acrylic, charcoal, crayon, pastel, pencil)

RELUCTANT MANIFESTO

My images are personal reflections drawn impulsively, like a nervous tick or doodling in the margin. I make this work mostly for myself. 

Subjects include figures, objects, and text which speak to personal quandaries and emotional soft spots. The  process is  additive and generally focused on drawing, bookmaking, and water-based media.  Observation, abstraction, layering, obscuring, and re-finding line are important aspects.

At the moment I'm interested in drawing antiquated  man-made objects and sequencing them through time, as a way to think about narrative and in particular, nostalgia: the feeling of rediscovering an intense long-lost earlier feeling. Layering, flip books, gifs, circular animation, and series are all possible expressions of this idea.

*old photo of us, by Aaron Farrington, I think* 

DRIPS

Experimenting with drips, edges borders. In the second image,
I randomly made a white work area that became the field of the tape. Neither image is complete.

FEATHERS TWO WAYS

Feathers two ways, in progress. Thinking about relative size, on picture plane.

WHAT WILL/CAN TEXT DO IN THESE IMAGES:

• size of text, 
• color of text (light on dark, dark on light) 
• on object only, behind object, woven
• scrapped in, drawn atop
• etc.

THINK BIG(GER)

Starting my big(ger) paintings: 11 X 14.

Arches cold press 140lb with blue and red (and gold) acrylic grounds. What next?

FLIP BOOK TUTORIAL

How to create your own flip book video, very basic tutorial.