Monte Do Gozo Mall

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.

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champagne with yax kuk mo

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

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

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

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

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.