from tim

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

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

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

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

crafting out

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

crafting out

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

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

crafting out

Shark

Here's a painting I worked on in class for several weeks--2-3 hours at a time. It took me a long time to get it going. It looked like an underpainting for about 5 weeks. Then something clicked and I finished it in 3 sessions. It still needs some work, but I'm going to let it dry first. Sorry for the shitty photo. It's 24x13, oil on panel.

work habits

me and travis were talking and thought it might be interesting to have a post where we talk about our work habits...how we manage our time, what we do with our time. so i'll start it off:

on a day of work if i get home at 4 i try to paint 3 hours that day and any later 2 hours. i'm tired as hell when i get home so i always first brew a cup of tea and that pumps me up. on the weekends i usually paint 7-8 hours a day but some days i go to the city to do whatever...but on those days i try to stop by the art store in chinatown.

in the summer i go crazy and paint usually 7-8 hours every single day but then usually one day i'll end up havin to do something and i'll paint like 2 hours. i barely ride the train or leave my neighborhood...it's so great.

after a day of painting all day it feels good to go for a run or play video games.

while i paint i usually have a movie on or a tv show or an audio book or some music. when i am in the decision making process of a painting, like the pre sketches or whatever i need silence. but as you know my stuff has a lot of tedious shit in it and to get through that it really helps to have something entertaining on in the background. right now i'm going through the show Mad Men and it's sweet.

I don't usually write out ideas like travis does although i really think i might now that i'm playing around more with paint. i usually do a lot of pre drawing in my sketch book and then i put like 10 layers of wet acrylic down (using a hairdryer to dry each layer) and then draw a little bit and then i start tapping parts off and getting the layers on. i usually just think up techniques based on what the painting needs at that moment and then just roll with it. but i'd like to have it more planned out in the future...

so that's it.
a day where i don't paint or do something creative or related to painting i feel like it's wasted and i get even a little depressed or angry...

tell me what you guys do
i'm real curious

b

heres a wall of my portraits at blue gallery last june...
taking this series to the next level is continual, this show i simply added a color, gessoed some of the pieces with wood totally exposed in certain areas and tried to see each piece through in its own spirit.
im open to suggestions on what yall think about new possibilities.
my next piece, from my notes here will be a larger ungessoed wood piece done with nails and weathered outside
inspired by our fence which dripped sediment after a month or two of exposure.
the nails will form the portrait.
after the exposure i may take the nails out, dip them in pastelish paint and reinsert them

let me know if you have any strong opinions
bl-t

4 new paintings

acrylic, oil, stickers and vinyl on 19x24 paper. sanded down the background. put a ton of
gel medium over the taped colors...


acrylic, oil and glitter on 19x24 paper. the glitter was a bitch.


first canvas in awhile...around 24x48 acrylic and oil. sanded down that floor and put a toooon
of medium over it. almost looks epoxyish in thickness.

this is my favorite i think...got some new iridescent goldens...maybe went a little too crazy
with the copper...maybe i'll change that mountain painting above the door...any ideas?
19x24 acrylic and oil and glitter and stickers on 19x24 paper


yesterday i got some embossing powder and i've been messing with that, putting it on
the acrylic and using an intense heat gun that annie had laying around to blast it and
it gives a pretty sweet effect. anyone ever heard of this being done? i hope to hell it's
at least semi-archivable. the lady at the store said it "should be fine"

any comments are greatly appreciated. which stuff do you like/don't like.
which direction seems good to go in? i'm a terrible judge of my own stuff.

thanks!

bradner/jeremy

Monster Yearbook

Here's an older one from the same class. 11x14 oil on canvas.

quiet

Here's the latest from my painting workshop with Eric White and Steve Ellis. The assignment was "Quiet." We were free to interpret that however we wanted. It's 12x12 oil on panel. The word in the speech bubble is "arrrgh." This piece is a departure from my recent stuff, but I felt like channeling my 16-year-old self. I had a fun time with it.

And I need to start taking better photos of these paintings.

some houses

well i really hate to put anything near that hot painting below this
because it's going to dim in comparison...but...well...here's another
paper piece...18"x24" acrylic and oil. the path in the background is
from spain. i got a lot of good pics from there (spain2928851.shutterfly.com)
some great source material...air power windmill things, hills, paths, freeways,
balls with things coming out of them, sheep etc...feel free to use anything
if it catches your fancy. i don't think i like the houses in this painting...they look
a little too....naievish style or something. also...do you think the sky needs
something in it? or is it good to have a little bit of open space?
-brrradner

2crown

new piece
im very happy to have seen this made
im heading this way with some new pieces.
i like the idea that we carry our history and emotions spirit around with us
so i want to paint it,
im going to make objects in this same way
and see where it goes,
i was thinking abstraction was the best way to show this
but i was thinking about including real objects ,
whaddaya think?

World's Biggest Ears

I had to come up with a painting of a world record. I don't know why I decided to make it from the 19th century. It just seemed appropriate somehow. I need to go back in and make the ears look less pasted on.

this is my first quilt!!!! it was designed from a photo i took of "the big i." for those of you who haven't been to albuquerque, there is an area where interstate 25 and interstate 40 merge together called "the big i." it's huge and roller coaster like. all the fabrics i used are 1930's reprints. i love these fabrics.

3 new smoke stacks

three more paintings out of the 10 i want to make...the bottom one has some vinyl i stuck
on there and then painted over. they are all acrylic first, a lot of acrylic layers, sanding, medium
and then the landscapy stuff is oil and some other more rendered sections. on paper, too. any
opinions? this is kinda different than what i was doing over the summer...i'm having fun with
the acrylic. do you like this newer stuff better than the stuff from the summer? i think
eventually i'll make some big stretchers and do like 4 feet tall versions of these...
i need a break, though...goin to spain for a few weeks to hike. get some good landscape pics. thanks for
any input!
bRadner

Some recent works...

"Sargasso," April '08, acrylic on masonite, 2' x 2 '



"SOFAR Channel," May '08, acrylic on masonite, 2' x 2'



"Walls Impede My Progress," May '08, acrylic on masonite, 2' x 2'

These are mostly from late spring/early summer...

- Peter

Cartouche on Patterned Ground

40"x32"

Damask Look

14"x14"

Green Ginkos

8"x8"

Paisley

8"x8"

Red Cartouche

hey y'all! sorry i haven't posted, but i have been working. i started a series of paintings inspired by a book of fabric patterns called "textile designs." i studied the book and translated it into paintings. the main shape in each piece became like figures for me.

they are oil on canvas. you can't really see the texture very well in the pictures, but the paint is thick and brushy. this piece is 8"x8."

world 1-1 and world 1-2

here's two new ones on paper...18"x24" acrylic and oil and a whole lotta tape used. i was tryin some new stuff. thinking about video games and childhood drawings. please let me know what you think as this is a bit transitional and i'm not totally sure what to take from it and what to leave behind.

model and diver finished

here's the finished piece. i decided i would take advice and i learned alot.

i decided to cut off the edge so she wasnt equidistant from the edge as the diver picture was from the left. halvway through cutting it off i got the impulse to make a color section that tied in the diver and made the piece more interesting. she also now more mirrors the diver in the sense that ner pointed out: shes close to an edge.

more coming, i have a show opening at brg so im hella busy.
-t-t-t

last 2 paintings of the summer

these are both about 18"x24" (mostly) acrylic and oil (mostly in glazes and the thicker areas)on paper....i don't know what to do with them yet. i was thinking about making about 10 of these, each one with the weird smoke stack thingies in them...also i have an idea to get a big panel...wood or aluminum...doing another painting on that and then kind of collaging these onto the panel with maybe epoxy or something else. is there any other way you know of that i could collage these onto something bigger? could i use matte medium or something? the paper is bristol...pretty thick. has anyone painted on aluminum before? can you put nails through it to make a wood box behind it? any advice is much appreciated...i start work soon so unfortunately my output will be decreasing a little bit now...'twas a good summer.

series done

last two in this series of 5 i been workin on all summer...they're all 48"X24" on canvas over panel. that tiger is all pixel...took forever. also on the tiger one i was trying to do what travis was saying...some of the paint is thicker, some is thinner...(grass is very thick, stuff coming out of chimney...etc) i don't really have any unfinished areas like before..that's hard as hell to pull off...also updated my web page...lemmie know if you see any errors: jeremycouillard.com
cool thanks
look forward to seeing some new posts on here!

bradneRRRRRRR

biggie smalls and the alizarin mansion

new painting...3rd in this series of 5. tryin' different stuff...leaving parts of
the painting unfinished kinda (in the lower left and sky of the left house) or letting
some old layers show and stuff like that like with the floor. lemmie know whachu
think.

b

More of this action

next opening at Bright Rain Gallery

here's our next artist
jessica l kennedy
http://www.jessicalkennedy.com/
bright rain gallery august 1 08

Today We Will Use the Pink Pyramid

42"X24" oil on canvas stretched over panel. (heavy as hell)

here is a question: how much do you all steal? there's the picasso quote..."bad artists copy, good artists steal." what do you think the difference is? do i steal too much? do you think you might?
what are some source materials you use to make any particular painting?

here are some things i feel like i "stole" to make this painting:

donald judd
david schnell
mythraic cults
wallpaper
matthais weischer

and tons of google image pictures that i did not take myself....like stuff of houses, clouds, grass
and carpeting.

maybe this would make some interesting post ideas. y'all need to post more stuff so's we can
keep this goin'. and as always...be honest as hell with me. i can take it...i swear. i would love it if someone tore my shit apart.


thank you and have a good weekend

bradner

Tim

Washington Stylishly Crossing Over, 2008
two paper panels: top=30.25"x27.5" bottom=30.25"x37.5
mixed

note: black areas on left edge of each panel are actually cut out

This is the latest painting in my presidents/contemporary political figures meets soccer players series...

Feels finished but never sure...the series is a meditation/study of Larry Rivers' painting, Washington Crossing the Delaware...and a study he did of heads of Washington...

Intended to be tacked/pinned to wall. Left edges even. The images are slightly deceptive. The proportions are slightly off. (See actual dimensions) For looks at other paintings in this series jump to: www.theatticwhichisdesire.blogspot.com

Critical feedback welcomed.

Space Room 48"X24" Oil/Acrylic on Canvas stretched over panel

So i guess what this series of painting is about, and probably what painting is about for me, is wandering, adventure, being lost. I always have this sinking feeling in the back of my mind or gut that I'm lost, that I don't know what I'm doing with my life, I don't know what life is about, I need to do something. A hole that I need to fill. I want my paintings to show this. When I start with a blank canvas first I make quick abstract image. In the image I always see a space so I fill it in at first in general and later obsessively, neo-baroquely. I wander these spaces trying to escape but every time I finish a painting it leaves me unsatisfied and I have to start over again. In a way I feel like i'm in Kierkegaard's first stage of life, the aesthetic, just trying to make the most badd ass painting possible. But I'm also trying to transcend this and wander into the ethical or, preferably, the religious, the spiritual. So sometimes painting for me is almost a sickness, an obsession. Something I have to do every day or I feel asphyxiated. But at the same time, I want painting to be more like a religion. I'm using painting in a way to try to wander out of painting and into something bigger. Like how Buddhists attach themselves to meditation and dharma in order to rid themselves of attachment.

I'm looking for the beauty in being lost. I'm trying to realize that I would not have started looking for this “thing” if I hadn't already found it. I'm born with this sickness that makes it hard for me to leave my easel and have a normal life and I'm using it to try to transform it into something else.

Stuff comes up and I get stuck on it like pyramids, multicolored berries, palm trees, water slides, tigers, blue birds and mostly the little guy. All this is to give a narrative continuity, to try to stick with a theme and see where it takes me.

purple slides 42"X40" oil on canvas

So that's what I have to say about this. Any comments (preferably things like...”you're full of shit and this is why” rather than “awesome, dude) are much appreciated. I've never taken any real art classes, just continuing ed ones...so I don't really know how to write about art or do critiques or anything.

Time Machine 34"X34" Oil on Canvas

Thanks for taking the time to read it and check out the newer paintings. I got two more I'll finish soon and post them up.

brrrrrrrrrrrradner

Orange Chair Room Two Canvases 18"X36" Each Oil on Canvas