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.