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.