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.
3 comments:
I don't know, don't be too hard on these paintings even if they're not your favorites. Neither of them is shitty. I'm often shocked which of my paintings people say they like, I have to hold back a "really?" I guess I am inside them and know why every shape and color is where it is, and I've constructed a little psychological narrative so it all makes sense to me.
But some of them don't make sense to me. My decision-making during the painting has broken down somehow. Oddly, others seem to "get" those, even if I don't.
I like the shirt painting. I wouldn't write off that idea. It's good to see what some of your play paintings look like.
these are definitely confidently
blue
and violet
pieces
which was one of your goals
i like how your paintings are always pointing to a further and further place
they open in layers
first you see the foreground then the middle then the distance
i like them both
in the monkeys/dan piece
the wall texture needs something like a big gradation from blue to red blue maybe
the next level of complexity
and to add movement
sweeping from a lighter value to a darker maybe...
just a thought, because i really like it as is,
i like the shirt
it reminds me of my bud leo,
who is a tattoo artist and painter
he has done this same support
of a body without hands or waist or head...
then he tattoos it with paint
very interesting,
nice ner!
thanks for posting
i like, very much.
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