lightgeist

Two new pieces

2010-11-28T21:55:00.005-07:00

These both have several layers of polymer (gloss) medium over them, with a final topcoat of matte medium to give them a beeswax-y/encaustic look:

Tesseract, 24"x24"

Observation, 12"x12"

2010-09-14T22:41:00.004-06:00

chirp 107 (nessun dorma)
chirp 100

my 2 biggest watercolors.
30 x 44 ish
just wanted to post again
and see them together and get some feedback.
hope all is well with you peeps

JOY SHIT

2010-06-10T16:44:00.006-06:00

JOY SHIT (Brilliant Blue with Naphthol Red Center), 2010

JOY SHIT (White with Lime Green Center), 2010

JOY SHIT (Naphthol Red), 2010

JOY SHIT (Brilliant Blue), 2010

JOY

2010-06-10T16:06:00.003-06:00

Joy (Naphthol Red), 2010
acrylic paint & liquid gesso poured into molds
4.5"x6.5"x.25"

JOY (Brilliant Blue), 2010
acrylic paint & liquid gesso poured into molds
4.5"x6.5"x.25"

Simple and fun. I used black metal clips to hang Bum and Dope. These molds, and the circular ones that will follow, are bigger, and heavier. They look interesting sitting on the top of a white pedestal, or on the floor...

New Painting

2010-05-24T21:25:00.002-06:00

The Painting Will Tell You When & How to Quit (The Beautiful Game), 2010
acrylic on masonite
24"x24"

Revisiting a theme that isn't quite that old yet. This is a painting that took me where it wanted to go...

2010-05-18T12:17:00.001-06:00

These are some new paintings that I made. I've been doing furniture with plants.

chirp 92

2010-05-16T14:58:00.002-06:00

thanks for posting guys,
you inspire me
so,
this is my newest bird chirp 92
i got super detailed with this one,
it might be driving me a little nuts
so im starting the "new matters" soon
which will be an exploration of abstraction and realism within a new format
like boxes/ triptychs/diptychs and on
i hope to have something tangable
but the idea is still birthing
i want to get back to my roots of creating visual disorientation
electric rods and cones

JOY N SHIT (No. 3), 2010

2010-05-14T19:09:00.003-06:00

JOY N SHIT (No. 3), 2010
mixed media on found images on masonite
24"x24"

And so the JOY N SHIT series moves on. I am so fond of this image of the soccer player created from the source material of a photo of my daughter playing soccer. But I am just as fond of the image of the star...the numbers bar is from a board game, and I've been holding on to it for probably over five years. Not sure if it really adds to the painting, but there it is...feedback welcomed.

fantasy

2010-04-30T13:23:00.003-06:00

im starting a fantasy art series for myself
here is the first
elf 1
not unlike my other work
but i would like to merge other aspects of my work into this approach
like taking fantasy to a more abstracted style
to see if i can mate it with high art
excited to get this bird book done
so i can move on to the new project!

The Joy N Shit series

2010-04-29T21:46:00.003-06:00

Joy N Shit (Plaid Flowers), 2010
mixed media on canvas
8"x8"

Joy N Shit (Lint White Line), 2010
mixed media including dryer lint on canvas
8"x8"

Manchester United Seat or Foot Rest Series continued, 2010

2010-04-14T10:54:00.005-06:00

This Is How We Do It in Lansing Even Tho This Photo Was Taken in East Lansing (Featuring Jonathan Ryan & Dylan Rogers of The Continental Things), 2010

digital photo

This Is How We Do It in Lansing Even Tho This Photo Was Taken in East Lansing (Featuring Jonathan Ryan of The Continental Things), 2010

digital photo

Manchester United Seat or Foot Rest Series, 2010

2010-04-05T09:28:00.006-06:00

Manchester United Seat or Foot Rest, 2010
copy machine, milk crate, duct tape
15"x17"x14"
$1000

Prints also available

Midwestern Metrosexual Soccer Coach, 2010
digital photo
dimensions vary

Prints available

Midwestern Metrosexual Soccer Coach, 2010
digital photo
dimensions vary

Prints available

Dope

2010-03-29T20:55:00.000-06:00

Same deal as Bum.

Bum

2010-03-26T08:36:00.003-06:00

Bum, 2010
acrylic paint object
5"x5"

This was just something fun to do, but I like the result. Aaron showed me how to do this. I made this by simply pouring acrylic paint solutions onto a Tupperware tray and letting them dry before adding stenciled text. The end project is this brittle, yet rubbery, poured acrylic painting/object.

A couple new works

2010-03-17T17:46:00.004-06:00

The first image, "Here To There," was my warm-up painting for 2010, I finished it and the bottom painting "Arboreum" around January 4th. Finally got a sunny day to photograph them! The middle piece is called "Transaxis" and I finished it about two days ago. It's a continuation of my cubes/rectangles geometric exploration. "Arboreum" is the largest painting from a series I've been at work on for about a year, mostly smaller works on paper thus far. I hope to paint 20 or so more, pick the 8-10 best ones, and show them all together somewhere.

Sarah Lucas, Damien Hurst, Angus Fairhurst

2010-02-21T22:23:00.004-07:00

Currently looking at work by Sarah Lucas and Damien Hirst. Sarah Lucas could be one of my new fav artists. I've been reading and looking at work in a book called In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, published by Tate. It features a show that Angus Fairhust, Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas put together in 2004. The show might reinforce a notion I've had that similar artists, working separately though in proximity, create a charged body of work when they are working toward a singular show. The energy created when artists are keeping close tabs on each other and are in and out of each other's studios, while working toward a show together, seems to generate good art across the board. This is just a thought, or, something I'd like to believe. I am not even sure that the above artists actually worked that way, though the show seems to have created a fairly unified body of work, or work that complements each other. Maybe they were just similar artists that a good curator pulled together for a show. I don't know. The link I'm providing doesn't provide a great gallery of images. There might be better ones out there...

http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/inagaddadavida/gallery.htm

New Painting

2010-02-18T07:50:00.005-07:00

Entering the Mainstream, 2010
mixed media on found masonite with pre-existing images
24"x24"

Okay, so I'm done with this idea of stars and soccer players, etc., on the found masonite for now. I felt the need to make something; the needs been satisfied. I'm happy with this trio, but they don't really WOW me in any major way.

Would like to take the images that I've been digitally manipulating and project them on the wall in large, medium and small dimensions. Does anyone have ten thousand bucks I can have?

The three new paintings are priced at $5,000 apiece, or all three for $10,000.

I've been very dissatisfied with painting. There's so much out there; I guess I've really lost interest in painting for the moment and feel the need to explore other possibilities.

I've turned to videos/short short films for the moment. I'm also working on some ideas for sound/screenplay installations. Aaron and I made a film yesterday called Changing Coats that no one, except my family, will probably ever see...

some stuff i've been lookin at

2010-02-14T20:32:00.002-07:00

i've been interested lately in different ways to map information/aesthetics of info. i'm very jealous of sites like these:

http://www.visualcomplexity.com

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/

daniel

2010-02-13T10:01:00.003-07:00

i met Daniel in my shop
hes an architect by trade and a graduate of an art school somewhere down the line
he started creating this work recently , i think to get back into art
i enjoyed looking at his work. so i hope you get something out of it

what we're lookin' at

2010-02-12T06:53:00.003-07:00

Travis recently mentioned that it might be worthwhile to occasionally upload pics of artwork we've been inspired by or interested in, and I agreed.

I'm posting a couple images of digital collages, created by MSU BFA student Erica Birkhold, that are currently showing at scene. These are large prints, roughly 36x52, displayed like unframed posters. I first saw Erica's work in the fall. I was attracted to the color, the embracing of fashion and media culture. In short, I thought they were bright and hip. They're "me" collages in a sense that the subject matter reflects things that interest or reflect Erica: she's a young woman, she likes fashion, she likes nature, and she likes color. There are four posters in the gallery in all, and they've garnered a lot of attention. They've been featured in two different feature articles in two local publications...I've overheard one artist reflect that they'd be cooler if they were paintings, that they lack surface quality, but I think this misses the point and is completely off the mark.

I've received permission from the artist to post these, and I've supplied her with the link and explained our format. Thus, comments are welcomed.

Bleed

2010-01-28T09:38:00.002-07:00

Bleed, 2010

(1st panel)
ink jet on photo paper
8"x8"

(2nd panel)
ink jet on patterned paper
8"x8"

(3rd panel)
acrylic on paper
8"x8"

Dumpster Diving

2010-01-27T12:26:00.005-07:00

An Alternative to War, 2010
acrylic, gouache & oil paintstick on found masonite with pre-existing imagery
24"x24"

A Reasonable Perspective, 2010
acrylic, gouache & crayon on found masonite with pre-existing imagery
24"x24"

So I went to open studios at Kresge last spring, and there were several large pieces of masonite in one artist's studio. It looked like someone had pasted film stills or posters across the masonite. Some of it had been painted on. I'm guessing that it had been the basis of some BFA's design project or something. The artist didn't know what he was going to do with it, but he was excited about the possibilities. Ironically, I happened to find the masonite in Kresge's dumpster shortly after that particular visit. I couldn't help myself. I envisioned working on this masonite and hanging a guerrilla art exhibit of them in the halls of Kresge late at night where the artist would see them. So I took the masonite to a friend's place and cut it up into squares. It's been in my basement for about nine months...

Feedback welcomed.

PANIC SCHEMATIC

2010-01-26T14:43:00.002-07:00

this painting took absolutely forever...the stripes in that chair took like a week.

Panic Schematic 48'x48'...the texture in the back is recycled tape i used to make the black lines, the shadows are oil glazes the funky patterns are cut up post it notes and everything else is a ton of acrylic.

so i need a break from these paintings...i did 7 four foot squares...i really wanna show them now and for the show i want to try to make some of the gadgets in the paintings. i bought an arduino (www.arduino.cc) and i'm learning to program it to make impossible gadgetry...we'll see. i gotta find a place to hang these. i think all 7 would look real sweet. and then like a table in the middle filled with weird interactive electronics. i was also thinking about wiring some of the paintings so if you touch them they make sounds...i dunno...

also i'm doing little cactus/furniture paintings for brightrain. i'll post some of those soon. and working on some web pages. so much cool stuff to learn about!

Flawed

2010-01-20T10:01:00.005-07:00

Flawed, 2010
acrylic on masonite
24"x24"

As with the small grouping, your feedback is appreciated. It was very hard to capture the actual color of this piece. The pink is a little warmer, and the teal is a little bluer, but the image is fairly close.

I'm trying to work a lot of ideas out in my head right now about painting in general...I don't know why I continuous want to return to 1958...

Flawed

2010-01-20T08:59:00.005-07:00

Flawed, 2010

first pane, inkjet on photo paper, 8"x8"

second panel, inkjet on patterned paper, 8"x8"

third panel, acrylic on paper, 8"x8"

So, let me know what you think. I won't reveal any of my thoughts or feelings about this grouping until I get some feedback.

newest quilt top

2010-01-10T12:27:00.003-07:00

hey y'all. i'm back from my quarter life crisis or whatever and this is the latest quilt. i'm thinking of these small quilts as sketches for a large quilt. i think that i will lean toward stripes and plaids in the future, and show case just one or two cute florals. i like the way the stripes give depth and make the highways look more structural. the white background on this piece is actually a white on white print, i'm not sure you can see it from the picture. this color scheme is kind of weird. i'm not sure that i like it. i really liked the brown and purple one on one of the previous quilts. i am painting too and plan to really use lightgeist. i respect and welcome all of your comments and opinions! thanks!

New Series/New Ideas

2009-12-29T20:11:00.003-07:00

For the longest time, I've been thinking about how to incorporate technology into process. I'm done thinking about it. In this new series of three panel artworks on paper, I'm creating an 8"x8" painting on paper, then creating an 8"x8" abstraction on patterned paper with software and inkjet printer, then scanning the original painting and tweaking, flipping and enhancing it in Photoshop before printing an 8"x8" image on paper with inkjet printer.

These can be displayed horizontally or vertically: top image is the Photoshopped image; middle image is the abstraction created with Publisher; bottom image is the original painting. All pieces 8"x8". Untitled at this point.

All feedback welcome. Don't spare my feelings.

Denim Jacket by Tim Lane

2009-12-24T21:41:00.007-07:00

Some time btwn 2002-2004, I stenciled the head of the Statue of Liberty (in black) on the back of this jacket, and sprayed the collar pink. Now, that older meditation on the freedom of expression (read emotion minus repression) has been merged with my recent meditation on the possibility of our embracing of "the rest of the world's game" aiding in the creation of a genuine global village.

acrylic on denim, 12/24/09

chirp 64 (thesaint)

2009-12-20T13:27:00.003-07:00

chirp 64
acrylic, gouache and oil on birch
3x4'

i had a blast with this one
and i stopped myself before i ruined it (imop)
i started with the silkscreen pattern and ended with some airbrush and oil paint.
im open to criticism, what do you think of it, the airbrush parts and the patterned parts?
does it jibe?

2009-12-12T15:53:00.001-07:00

new bird,
chirp 60 21 x 29ish
watercolor on paper
yo.

Soccer Players, Dryer Lint, the Future & Mortality

2009-12-12T12:26:00.004-07:00

click on image to enlarge
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Hi, my name is timlane.
_

Soccer Player (with Red Aura), 2009
mixed media on dryer lint mounted on canvas
6"x6"

The sun came out for a minute.

new one

2009-12-05T09:09:00.005-07:00

An Unfortunately Impossible Machine 48"x48" acrylic and tape on canvas over panel

i also made a webpage to go along with this painting: http://www.ithappenedhere.org

i've been thinking about memory and trying to incorporate it into my work. thus the early 90s references. the maps are 6 different places where i have lived before. the cockpit i did from those earlier drawings...i picked the drawing you guys liked the best and made it into this here painting...

Finally got my camera situation fixed!!!

2009-11-18T08:46:00.006-07:00

The Soccer Players (Heralds of the Future)
24"x24"

The Soccer Player (for Zach)
6"x6"

The Soccer Player (for Jackie)
6"x6"

Tim Lane speaks to the masses
Video

megaman painting

2009-10-31T11:02:00.003-06:00

A Room for Makoto Tomozawa, 48"x24" acrylic on canvas over panel

inspired by the music of MEGAMAN

i liked this piece from lastyear

2009-10-30T16:01:00.002-06:00

chirp 49

2009-10-25T11:59:00.003-06:00

newest big chriper.
just tryin to have fun,
i dont like canvas, and during this piece i realized this temporary truth again and again.
i wish the color was slightly different, might rework at some point, make it a little more solid.
might start collaging these things soon
40x44 acrlyic and oil on canvas

nother watercolor large port.

2009-10-25T11:56:00.002-06:00

i love the large passages of watercolor.
i may just start abstract versions of them, but i have been saying that for a while. the hair here was not the direction i was planning, but watercolor has its own agenda and i had to make lemonade.
22x30 watercolor on paper

MOls

2009-10-25T11:46:00.003-06:00

heres my new mol portrait,
i have been getting real comfortable with painting and just showing up and making something, lately. im not sure it translates exactly, but maybe its just a stage of digesting last years experimentation and getting used to the tools ive bought.
looking back at this piece i like the idea of a color field portrait. the shirt area reminds me of matisse . with this approach to the face, i just keep layering color until it looks right.

42x36" acrylic on birch

COCKpits

2009-10-11T16:24:00.000-06:00

3 cockpits.

graphite, guache and acrylic on paper, 20"x25"

more birds

2009-10-06T16:50:00.003-06:00

these are my most recent large watercolors.
though i have done nearly 10 more little birds and a large acrylic and oil since.
i have been pretty productive, and the birds give me alot to chew on.
i would love to know what yall think about these
they go back and forth in their potency but i dont show the ones i dont like here or at the gallery.
for me, the birds are a great excuse to make an abstraction, or as close as i can get at this point to something interesting in that color field and reinterpretation of an image format i like so much.

workin on some portraits now, got balloon fiesta kickin so its crazy in my neck of the woods, not to mention the other stuff.
butstillgoin.

weird shit

2009-10-06T15:27:00.003-06:00

i had a weird dream where the revolutionary war was happing in a few different periods/places at once and all the solders had on nike airs. these are all acrylic on 20"x25" paper...the painting up top i kinda left unfinished cause i got real sick of these paintings and they just seem kinda...dorky. i just needed a break from the other stuff i was doin' and soon i'm gonna get back into it. also i changed around my jeremycouillard.com if you have any advice on how to make it prettier/more user friendly please lemmie know.

are we still doin' this lightgeist thing? been pretty scarce lately...

abstract stuff

2009-09-24T16:48:00.003-06:00

i just had to get this outta my system...i was messing around with more transparent gel colors and stuff making these squares. there're actually 6 of them but i accidently photographed the same one twice and now it's dark and i don't feel like getting the 6th...you get the idea anyway. they're acrylic on 12"x12" wood...

the top piece was me peeling the paint off the tape i used to make the squares and putting it in a container and then i organized it in a grid and put medium over it so they all stick there. i have enough to make one more i'll probably do later.

chirp 30

2009-09-02T16:57:00.001-06:00

i had to scan this in pieces, might need training from nate again on how to make it seamless...
anyway. didnt have a camera, this was the best bird i have made in my opinion. wanted to share it.
he has a husky-ness

fat beat factory

2009-09-02T15:14:00.002-06:00

Fat Beat Factory 48"x48" acrylic and tape on canvas over panel

so mostly i wanna know two things...1) i left the chairs incomplete. what do you think? 2) what do you really think about the lack of perspective? i find perspective real boring and tedious and plus i like the dizzying feeling of the rooms w/out it so i don't use it. but do the paintings suffer? would these be better in perspective?

any other feedback always appreciated!!

the floor didn't photograph too well...i first used a bronze iridescent and then splashed blue and red paint on with a toothbrush and then put a fat glaze with a little interference blue on top of that...it's hard to see in the photo.

chirp27

2009-09-02T12:25:00.002-06:00

little chirp
27

Another Damn Day at the Office

2009-08-20T07:52:00.003-06:00

it had to be done eventually...i let the landscape take over the interior. what do you think?

Another Damn Day at the Office

48"x48" acrylic with oil glazes on canvas stretched over panel

bbbbbbbbeeerdsssss

2009-08-16T12:58:00.002-06:00

so , heres a recent installment
the top is a watercolor 20x20 ish
the bottom is an acrylic/oil 32x49 framed

in my watercolors i recently found these orbs interesting,
though im really watching myself not to get too formulaic
in my recent bird work, the next installment, im trying to scale back the complexity
well , see,
the bottom piece was fun and chirpful, im realizing i shine a bit more on a hard surface
i hate the bounce of canvas (which im currently battling with, and i knew i shouldnt have started it) so i think im going to just work on paper and board until i need to try textured bounce again.
im still trying to riff-it and come up with new and authentic approaches, as i said, once i find something that works, i usually forget to use the mind i was previously using when i was discovering and falling back to my formulas
which need to be balanced by sponetneity
imop.
thats a constant battle in my work
it slightly applys to these pieces

little things

2009-08-11T17:37:00.002-06:00

these are all about 11"x11" on wood...in acrylic with some tape in most of'um. the wood cutter at lowes was out of service so i couldn't make big stretchers for a few weeks so i bought some wood and hack sawed it apart and made these while i waited for the hardware store to fix their big ass saw.

new portrait

2009-08-08T13:11:00.001-06:00

22x30 watercolor on paper
not sure what to call her,
the goal was to take a format i used to paint in and work within my present process and thoughts.

burn it

2009-07-29T17:41:00.002-06:00

july stuff

2009-07-29T17:13:00.005-06:00

small medium large of july
these birds keep me inventing
and inspired.
working with minor wrist and arm pain from gaming and painting
nate told me to take salty baths

more new stuff

2009-07-29T06:41:00.004-06:00

The Invisible Ladder 19"x24" acrylic oil and tape on paper

Control Room 4'x4' acrylic oil and tape on canvas stretched over panel

new stuff on paper

2009-07-20T18:09:00.004-06:00

Open Window 19x24 acrylic and oil on paper

The Open Box 19x24 acrylic and tape on paper

Blue Chair, Yellow Chair and Red Chair 8.5x11 acrylic and oil on paper

Overlook 8.5x11 acrylic and oil on paper

Japanese Room 8.5x11 acrylic and oil and tape on paper

Holiday House 8.5x11 acrylic and oil on paper

the smaller paintings i made because i want to turn them into prints. do you think they'll work as prints? The top, bigger two were just me messing around...

The New Version...

2009-07-14T15:18:00.003-06:00

Same dimensions and materials as the first version below...same crappy cell phone...however, this image seems to be better. Well, after posting the original and talking to a couple of you, I decided that I was pretty unhappy with the painting. I feel better about this version. Note: the image of the soccer player in the lower center foreground is a completely new addition...

HIs Shirt. doG _ ribbions

2009-07-13T07:16:00.003-06:00

being an artist

2009-07-13T06:46:00.003-06:00

so then we work and work and work,
and for me i paint_ i paint_ i paint,
and more recently I have had a couple of shows,
therefore, I have been working extra mad.
so then
what?
comes from this.
you see now i am just in the wondering about it all phases.
i wonder about your experience after shows,
i think i might just lock myself in the closet for three years.
to me i think the best part of any show ___ is making the show,
then
after the show you have to just do nothing.
and now when i see the work i think it might be better of floating down the nearest river.
i am wondering to you.
and to all of you_
what are the up's and down of your work?
do you always love your work?
when are you most close to your work?
how does it feel when you stand in a room full of people looking at your work?
what does it mean if you sell your work?
what does it mean if you do not sell your work?
it order for me to ask these questions , i feel I should give you a little insight to the answers i have come upon.
first of all.
I hate showing my work, and when I am showing it, it is when i hate the work the most.
I love the work the most when it is in my studio.
just me and the work. then when it leaves, I feel I no longer have any connection with it.
sometimes people will say..
"i love your paintings"
and I am like ___ "paintings what paintings?"
as in I almost forget that they are mine hanging upon the walls.
.
anyway ___ is it work?
and why work?
you see too I have been thinking in the last months.
...
about the whole artist thing at all.
i suppose for about 7 years i was so driven by it.....
to make it
to show it
to sell it
and now i am just thinking ,
what the F *#K.
>
artist.
ugh.
could this just be the come down after a show.
I was told last week by some one I really trust,
that one could not be faking "being a painter"
if one loved it so much and lost track of time while doing it.
you see,
i work say 60 hours per week in my studio,
and i must say it might border on an obsession.
then
you
take
your
labor
of
loves
and put them into a public space and then you are left with nothing to work on.
it is like a big wave of water drying up mid-stream.
....
maybe it is like any other job...
and
then
you
nearly
collapse
after
months
and months
of work.
well the last thing i would like to say.
___the last thing I would like to wonder...
is this
do you feel that you have already moved past your "newest" work when it it finished.
in that_
you feel that you will make better and different works__whist you have the newest and freshest works right in front of you?

Just Curious KEllie

New Painting

2009-07-08T10:43:00.004-06:00

tim lane

The Attacking Third of the Field, 2009
acrylic, oil paintstick, crayon, cloth, bubble wrap, painters tape, dryer lint on paper
19.5"x22.5"

Monte Do Gozo Mall

2009-06-27T16:49:00.004-06:00

Monte De Gozo Mall
4'x4' feet Acrylic, Oil, Tape and QR Codes on canvas stretched over panel.
the landscape in the back is from Monte do Gozo in Spain. It's Galician for like...pleasure mount. it's the last city on the camino before Santiago and back in the day you used to be able to see Santiago from the top of the mountain where there's a little statue you can barely see in the picture. it's kinda center to the right. there is no mall that i know of in monte do gozo...until now.

b

champagne with yax kuk mo

2009-06-26T13:40:00.003-06:00

i made this while waiting for paint to dry on a bigger 4'x4' piece. this is 24"x19", acrylic, tape and oil glazes. the pink, text like thing over the forest is tape. the statue is of yax kuk mo who was a mayan king of aztec decent and those rings around his eye are symbols of the storm god. but no storm is coming and everyone is chilling the f out sipping on cristale.
travis and molly good luck with the wedding stuff in michigan!!!
bradneRR

Temporarily

2009-06-23T06:58:00.002-06:00

Here's a new 2' square painting, "Temporarily." This was originally going to have a lot more elements -- a couple ghostly icebergs painted floating in the "water" and on the horizon; also a sunken city that I spent quite a bit of time drawing pillars and urns and broken pediments for. Then I attempted to transfer the drawing of the ruins using a piece of paper bag and an oil stick -- total disaster. So I quickly wiped it all off. After a lot of consideration (and some urging from Randi to leave it simple), I decided to stay with this composition. I was trying to juxtapose something like a beautiful sunrise with a gathering storm -- or a tropical sky with arctic waters. The idea that a beautiful sky above reveals nothing about what is sunken and hidden, at least.

white background birds

2009-06-10T12:11:00.005-06:00

here are chirp 16 top
and chirp 17 bottom
i keep exporing these birds
so with these two
i was watching dave chappelle...
maybe more importantly i been watching my process
these in particular i decided they were done before i put the big wash of color in the background
what do you think of them in comparison with the previous colored background birds?
the "public" reaction seems to be more in favor of the "finished" look of the others.
im glad i did these

Ian Swanson

2009-06-09T07:43:00.002-06:00

There is a Detroit area painter whose work has really been catching my eye lately, Ian Swanson.

www.iancswanson.com

I thought you might enjoy checking his work out -- it's a mix of really highly finished stuff and rougher, almost haphazard elements. I can see a little Chris Martin (the painter, not the guy from Coldplay), a little Aaron Curtner, a little of each of us too, in his work. I thought Tim, especially, might consider him for future SCENE Metrospace stuff.

I'm going to try to make one of his openings, he seems to be pretty active and productive right now, and I totally dig the compositions he comes up with.

some shitty little paintings

2009-06-08T19:44:00.004-06:00

i wasn't gonna post these but since there's been no post for awhile...

the top one was a recommendation from my friend dan. i'm sure you guys know how people are constantly telling you "you should paint X" (X usually being the suggester doing something absurd) and you almost always ignore it and think "do you pay any attention to what i actually paint? how would this fit that at all?" but this time around i thought....you know what? even though this idea isn't very close to anything i've been painting lately, i'm going to take up the challenge and paint two monkies sparring on capybara steeds and i'm going to try to fit it into my current "artistic vision" it turned out okay, i think, and it was fun painting the animals.

the shirt one is a funny story that i can't type online but ask me about it sometime. it's called "a few things that happened in my shirt." i don't like this painting but i like the idea of having a bunch of stuff happening in a shirt...in a weird way i think it's similar to stuff travis does when he has a lot of abstraction going on inside a bird or a babe...just here it's repersentational stuff going on. i will hopefully explore this idea more later and hopefully it'll be successful.

these are both 19x24" acrlyic on paper...the capybara one has a QR code in it and the shirt has some aluminum on top.

New small works

2009-05-26T13:20:00.007-06:00

I've been moving into a new house this past month and have only stolen a few moments to paint. Here are some pieces I've recently finished.

The top one, "Carthage," was begun a long time ago when I was painting with coffee. I was never that satisfied with it, so I set it aside and recently added the white areas and the small red square. It's framed with leftover strips of black cherry, something I plan to do with a lot of the small pieces.

The second one down is "Reflecting Pool." This one has been through many stages, but finally I'm pretty happy with it. It is a little more vibrant than the colors here suggest.

Finally, "Ascend" is another piece that was begun a long time ago and sort of stagnated as a fairly boring composition until I added the connecting arc and it all kind of activated. The first and last pieces were completed for exhibit in Tim's "Little Big Show" along with 3 others. "Reflecting Pool" is a stand-alone, a color and layering experiment for some of the larger pieces I'm working on.

taking advice and other stuff

2009-05-12T15:39:00.003-06:00

with these 19x24 paper pieces i was following some advice from lightgeist. first, kellie's advice from way back when to try doing stuff with no source material and travis' advice when he talked about making paintings that were an identifiable color. here i have green red and purple. next i might do a suggestion of molly's to do a tree house...which i was thinking about back in the day but couldn't make it work. also i was doing new stuff here...using aluminum foil and QR codes. in each QR code there is a few sentences of description of other rooms. so these are about spaces in spaces inside spaces etc. if you have a smart phone you can interact with the paintings, scanning the qr code to get the descriptions. i know these paintings basically suck but i was trying a bunch of new stuff. they really are just studies for later, bigger things. so any feedback is much appreciatd so i can improve the new stuff...especially anything about color...i really wanna get better with the color. also...are the QR codes dumb? thanks!

green room: acrylic, oil, aluminum foil, ink jet print outs

red room: acrylic, aluminum foil, vinyl, tape, ink jet print outs
purple room: acrylic, oil, ink jet print outs

##some of the QR codes say things like:
"I had never seen that door before. How had I missed it? I grew up in that house."

"Deep in the forest there was a florescent pink wall and a purple couch along side it. We sat down and had a drink. "

"We carried the couch into the cave and set the television up. It was damp and dark but we were ok. "

new figures

2009-05-11T18:51:00.005-06:00

these are two new watercolors ,
i put birds in their shirts
im now full speed ahead on the book im doing with that writer
after these and getting the first check i can devote more time to it
not feeling like im losing money if im not painting for the gallery
which is something i battle with considering
experimental or outside projects
wierd
these photos are not the best, alot of subtlety is lost
i like these backgrounds. im considering some other forms of abstraction into these large passages
lovin it

oil portrait

2009-05-04T18:51:00.005-06:00

Here's the finished piece. I took this crappy first photo in class with my iPhone, so I'll take a better shot and replace it. I'm happy with it overall, but there are a couple of drawing issues that bother me and other minor things I'd like to fix up. I'd be worried to do anything else without reference, though, so it'll probably stay just like this. I learned a lot with this piece, so I'm looking forward to doing another. I've never painted something so small and complex as this face, but there's something fun about painting tiny details.

pro artist hrs

2009-05-03T07:24:00.002-06:00

Found this blog entry and thought i'd share it. A professional artist says she spends as much
time in the studio as she did when she was working a 9-5 job. Pretty interesting:

http://joannemattera.blogspot.com/2009/04/marketing-mondays-how-is-your-pie.html

the winding stair

2009-05-02T07:19:00.003-06:00

don't think it's done quite yet. that pink has changed a bunch of different colors.
2'x4' acrylic, oil, ink, tape and sequins on canvas over panel.

also here is a link to a better picture of the fountain post below. i think i'm not
gonna add the trees because i like having part of it open. i dunno...

here are some lips

2009-04-30T17:19:00.001-06:00

from my recent little paintings

squiqlly fountain: bam-bam

2009-04-26T12:38:00.004-06:00

this is a really shitty pic i took in the kitchen cause it'll be awhile before i carry this beast outside. it's 4x4 feet and weighs like 40 pounds probably.
it's acrylic, oil, silver ink and tape on canvas over panel. i attached my source image, too because i wanna know if you think i should add those trees in on the right hand side. i didn't put them in because i wanted an open part to see the landscape. i made this image huge (sorry) so maybe you could see the different textures...especially where i make the bricks...i put down the ink and then sprayed it and then put a shit ton of gel over it and then made little bricks on top of that. the tape is in those ray color things up top. what do you think of that? is there too much goin' on?
cool thanks for any input
b

how do you think about color?

2009-04-19T15:03:00.003-06:00

one thing i'm trying to work on lately is color so i was curious how you guys think about it, plan it out and what not (or if you even do...sometimes i don't think about it at all). a real useful site i go to is: http://www.colourlovers.com/
i use a few color arrangements that i find on there in paintings and i try to limit my pallet to
those 5 colors but it rarely works out. i feel like i use way too many colors in one painting. i also made my own swatches of color...which was hard...so then i took some paintings i liked and took 5 colors from them to make swatches to then use in my own paintings. below are a few.

also i discovered is that it's fun to paint a bunch of tape, arrange it, and put a shit ton of medium over it to immortalize it. i'll post the two paintings i'm workin on now that have that soon. gotta wait for some oil to dry and touch up a few things. i've been working much bigger, too.

when i play around with color a lot i feel like i can hear it a little bit. like it harmonizes. especially with those swatches. so i think it's a good excercise to practice "hearing" color. that's the best way i can describe i deal with it...when it "sounds" right rather than "looks" right. kinda hard to explain but the more i practice with it the better i can get at sort of "hearing" it. so i gotta give a big up to nate for that in a way because he told me about ratatat and when i listen to them i feel like i paint better sometimes. i feel like some of the better parts of my paintings sound like ratatat songs. haha. sounds a little dorky and i could be wrong since i'm not the best judge of my own work. do you guys get this feeling, too?

colors from matthias weischer's "egyptian room" (one of my favorite paintings)

colors from gauguin's "siesta" (a painting i look at at the met a lot...i know he battled with the color on that, changing the girl in the front's dress around a lot)

Framing v. not framing, revisited

2009-04-07T11:39:00.000-06:00

[Note: I originally posted this in response to a thread from last September. I assume that few would ever see it. As I gave it some more thought, I thought I'd reopen this can of worms for some further thoughts from anybody out there. As a gallery curator, this was an issue I navigated from both sides. Here is my original comment, slightly edited.]

I'm showing up pretty late to this party, but in regards to framing vs. not framing -- both ways have potential to be a visual distraction. Depends on who you ask and where their aesthetic compass is set to.

Often art (that's not by Vermeer or Rothko or something) lacks psychological "weight" with the potential collecting public. We confront an unfamiliar art object with built in assumptions -- quite different ones than what we confront a Michelangelo or the Mona Lisa with. There is very little we artists can do about this, as non-Vermeers and non-Rothkos. But, one of the very small things we CAN do to distinguish our works and assist them in acquiring psychological weight (other than just painting great paintings) is to give them physicality -- to give them actual, physical mass.

Whether this means framing or not framing is a judgment call on behalf of the artist. I saw a great Raymond Pettibon show where everything was simply pinned up. And I've seen a number of student shows where things are pinned up and/or wrapped in acetate and look like crap.

For most buyers who are "collecting" a piece of art, it's simply not practical to have unframed artwork in their homes, offices, etc. So if they feel compelled to purchase an unframed piece, they're gonna go straight to a frame shop. This, in purely practical terms, adds expense to the piece -- and often quite a bit of expense. A large custom frame can easily cost hundreds -- if not more. One can assume that if they're interested in the piece, they're interested in its longevity.

I read recently (in the book "The Gardner Heist") that there is a single substance on earth which is more valuable per ounce than gold, platinum, diamonds, heroin, you name it -- and it's fine art. Not necessarily MY fine art, but fine art just the same. We're often the worst possible judges of the commodity value of our own work -- we tend to grossly under- or over-value it.

As a consideration to potential buyers, I always put my works on paper into a relatively inexpensive black metal frame with regular window glass over it to protect it. If someone wants to reframe it, fine. I've had to get pretty creative with matting if it's a diptych or an oddly shaped piece. Of course, this adds to my expense and so nudges my prices upward. Back in the day, painters used to hand-carve and gild their own frames. I consider myself lucky.

So in a sense I've capitulated whatever my aesthetic opinion is on having my work ideally be framed/not framed. I've assumed (hoped/prayed/feared) that someone might like it enough to invest in its physical survival -- and I've made that option as attractive to them as my time and financial means allow.

That's my 32 cents.

been way too long...

2009-03-30T16:15:00.004-06:00

"Lambent Terminal," 2'x2'. I finished this one this morning.

"Navigators," 2'x2'.

"Meridians," 2'x2', my friend Justin commissioned this to give to his best friends for their wedding.

I finally figured out a way around a problem I've been having with my camera, so here are some paintings from late fall/winter 2008 and, well, today. The top two are very textury -- I started them out by gessoing two boards and then squishing them together and letting the gesso dry. The bottom piece is on canvas. Forgive the slight fuzziness of the photos!

- Peter

looked good

2009-03-22T12:45:00.002-06:00

i liked this, as i was scanning my images in, the background white was being confused and not scanning the whole of my images.... i had to put something color in the background to get my image to come out.

2009-03-20T21:46:00.003-06:00

This is the front and back of the quilt I just finished. It is 26 1/2" X 21."

5" x 7"s

2009-03-20T16:09:00.003-06:00

these are the 5" x 7" mini paintings i've been doing for the past month or so and i think i'm going to stop now. there're 32 in all. acrylic, oil, graphite, stickers and ink. it's funny...i got some flourecent golden paint and it totally doesn't show up on the scanner. turns to weird gray. biggest example is the cube on the bottom.

The Big Stage

2009-03-19T08:27:00.001-06:00

The Big Stage, 2009
acrylic and dryer lint on board
24"x24"

tim lane
inlovewithplaid@comcast.net

some info

2009-03-06T15:28:00.003-07:00

yo i just was reading this blog written by an art dealer in nyc and he's a real good writer and has a lot of very useful info so i just thought i'd share it:

http://edwardwinkleman.blogspot.com/2009/02/advice-for-artists-seeking-gallery.html

there are a lot of good links and shit too. also he recommended this book comin out in a few
weeks:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/ARTWORK-Everything-You-Need-to-Know-and-Do-As-You-Pursue-Your-Art-Career/61944093096

it's really hard to find honest useful info about art on the internet. soooo much of the info
is directed for different kinds of artists...like non contemporary i guess...and vanity galleries
trying to screw people over. it took me a lot of trolling around to find this stuff...

b

some bird ideas

2009-03-04T17:23:00.004-07:00

need your help

2009-02-25T15:24:00.001-07:00

yo guys,

i'm gettin ready to ship some stuff for april and i have 7 of these 4 feet long paintings.
i want to leave one at home and i can't decide which one is the worst. i narrowed it down to
three. so out of these three links...which one do you think i should leave at home?
thanks for any input...
http://secretmuseum.matterwave.net/PAINTINGS/spaceroom.jpg
http://secretmuseum.matterwave.net/PAINTINGS/homestudio.jpg
http://secretmuseum.matterwave.net/PAINTINGS/pinkpyramid.jpg

new stuff

2009-02-13T15:00:00.003-07:00

the first painting i have two pictures of.. just thought it might be interesting. what do you think of the changes? the top one is the first draft...(shitty pic) and the bottom one is more final. (4 feet by 2 feet)

middle pic is of spain on paper (19"x24") mostly acrylic. shadows are oil glazes.

last one is acrylic and oil 4 feet by 2 feet. i was putting some paint in a little squeeze tube and squeezing it out on the floor of the room. the tv screen image is what i remember of some vuillard painting of WWI that i loved. thought i could steal it since our last names are so similar.
so travis and molly these are prolly the last before the show. so be brutally honest since we're selling them together as friends.

The Big I #2

2009-02-11T15:38:00.002-07:00

here it is.
26.5"X10.5"

more new work

2009-02-04T15:39:00.003-07:00

new piece
not unlike my others ,
still making women/package/explosions
this time i put a little person insider her heart area
cheering
the banner says "between"

the big i #2

2009-01-27T12:02:00.002-07:00

so, i'm working on this little guy. i'm going to redo the whole right side. i'm happy with how the left side looks and i think i'm going to simplify color and pattern on the right square. i think i'll make the right side bottom green stripes match the left side bottom. i think i'll make that green and black and white highway on the right only one or two fabrics, and brown or just green. i think i will change the dark highway into oranges similar to the left side. then i will change the blackground on the right to match the background on the left. obviously i was going for a peaceful side and a more complex side, but i got a little too carried away. i'm not totally sure what to do with the three stripes in the divide. in the picture they were part of one tower and i want them to look close to the viewer. things will line up more in the finished piece, my picture is a little messed up. the top lines of the ground will line up and the orange stripe in the background of the righ side will line up with the orange highway from the left. let me know if you have any ideas.

2009-01-27T11:55:00.002-07:00

heres a new piece i have been brewing a few weeks...
the pic is a little fuzzy ,
my thinking was to make a large figure with an outfit that takes up a large space for abstraction-sake.
when that wasnt enough i added some op-elements

95 percent done
open to reflection

bird book

2009-01-17T16:40:00.003-07:00

im working on a new project,
11 paintings for a book an e-friend wrote
birds are the characters in the book
heres the first good drawing
i might switch from gals to birds for the next few months
on my personal work too
a challenging thing to draw for sure

Tim Lane: New Work

2009-01-12T13:43:00.005-07:00

Girl Power, 2009

acrylic, gouache, pencil, collage, dryer lint, tacks, ponytail holder, socks

on canvas

40"x30"

Happy Couple, 2009

acrylic, oil paintstick, gouache, crayon, collage, fabric, dryer lint, nail, socks

on plywood

24"x24"

two new interiors

2009-01-10T07:50:00.003-07:00

Miami Room 18"x30" acrylic (with a wiiii little bit of oil on the shadows) on canvas
vestibule two (soccer ball) 26"x34" acrlic, embossing powder and oil on canvas

these paintings are most likely for the show in april. i'm pretty sure they're done. i've been making little teeny changes for the past month. what do you think of the embossing powder in the vestibule two? it's mostly on the stairwell...nate i took your advice about the back room and put an inside edge on the doorway for depth...

Miami Room is taken from a little tiny two inch tall photograph of an apartment for sale in Miami. i really liked how the light came through the curtain thing and made all kinds of crazy lines. it's probably my least weird painting. i was trying to be more mature or something. i don't know...i used a trashbag full of tape to do that painting. it's almost entirely done with a knife and tape...just a little bit of brush work with the furniture.

fancy flags

2009-01-06T19:53:00.003-07:00

ok...i really need some help/advice with these. i went to michael's over break and got a bunch of beads and sequins and shit and also some embossing powder which i put in the acrylic and blast with heat. i put the beads in gel medium...i saw a raqib shaw show at the met (nate you gotta see it) and it blew me away and i wanna try to do some things he does...
but basically these are studies with the beads and embossing and acrylic paint.
do they suck? i can't completely tell. annie doesn't like them so much. should i use the beads as
just accent or do you like them all over? what about the embossing stuff? should i put stuff in the background or do you like the matte color? do these look too craftyish?
my plan is to make big 4 feet long cities (2 feet high) that are done in this style. with little teeny details and sequins and embossing stuff. kind of abstract/cartoony a bit...from my mind and not from pictures. it will cost a lot in beads and other materials and take a loooong time. (these flags
take about 8 hours each) so i might do one slightly bigger study before i invest myself in that.
i have some other paintings i'll post soon...waiting for a good picture day. these were scanned in and are 8x8 inches.
thanks for any critique

b

from tim

2008-12-31T12:46:00.004-07:00

I finished this painting some time in late October/early November, I really can't remember. I can't remember it's title. Mainly acrylic, I think. 30"x17" on paper. Not a great photo, poor lighting, but had to make do. This painting is important to me because it's the first time I've been able to really nail a good image of my daughter.

julia fernandez-pol

2008-12-22T15:24:00.002-07:00

http://www.sandycarsongallery.com/artists/fernandezpol/fernandezpol.html

i just found these paintings. i love them. i think i will try some of her techniques.

if ya'll ever come across some hip quilts let me know.

success

2008-12-21T13:22:00.003-07:00

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article4969415.ece

thought yall might find this guys ideas helpful and inspiring,
he asserts, 10,000 hours in a craft makes a master.

my dad would agree, he not only said practice makes perfect but would qualify "perfect practice makes perfect"

quilt pics

2008-12-19T17:32:00.003-07:00

these are the pics for the next two quilts i'm working on. i've done the drawing stage and have had them copied on big paper. i just need to copy it onto the freezer paper and then i can start ironing the pattern to the fabric and sew. i have gone fabric shopping...

quilt pics

2008-12-19T17:20:00.002-07:00

crafting out

2008-12-19T17:15:00.001-07:00

i did a craft fair with my friend this christmas season. that head is a styrofoam head that i decoupaged with anime. she is lovely in person.

knit earwarmer

2008-12-19T17:13:00.001-07:00

crafting out

2008-12-19T17:07:00.001-07:00

i made these gloves for myself out of this hand dyed and hand spun yarn that i have been hoarding away. it needed to be used and loved. new favorite colour scheme, orange and gray.

crafting out

2008-12-19T17:05:00.002-07:00

i made this cable scarf for myself. the cables look a bit vaginal.

crafting out

2008-12-19T17:00:00.003-07:00