This weekend was an art marathon.
It started on Friday night with the Art for Aids auction. Jhina Alvarado, Lucky Rapp and I all donated paintings for the UCSF Alliance Health Project.
I did a little more tweaking to this painting. I added more detail to the pelican. Then... I blocked in a delicious slab of reddish gray paint, that varies from brushy-ness, for the top 5/6ths to smooth at the bottom, and added a moving red ring a ding. I figured out how to deal with the unusually long format and incorporate a interesting division of the space, which is something I have been trying to figure out, and use, forever.
It started on Friday night with the Art for Aids auction. Jhina Alvarado, Lucky Rapp and I all donated paintings for the UCSF Alliance Health Project.
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| Me and "Orange Bicycle," This painting was kind of a break through piece for me. It was bitter sweet to see it go. |
I did a little more tweaking to this painting. I added more detail to the pelican. Then... I blocked in a delicious slab of reddish gray paint, that varies from brushy-ness, for the top 5/6ths to smooth at the bottom, and added a moving red ring a ding. I figured out how to deal with the unusually long format and incorporate a interesting division of the space, which is something I have been trying to figure out, and use, forever.
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| "Cruising Employed" 36"x24," oil on canvas |
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| This is what it used to look like. I was not sure how to make the different orientations. Maybe the painting can be hung many different ways, upside down, sideways, depending on the mood of the viewer. I will probably try this again, because I am kinda stubborn. |
all the pelican paintings are so yummy. love the shy one with all the great water and the long format one. Can't we get you to just start a new canvas rather than painting over all of those great paintings?
ReplyDeletebut I trust your muse, you are always on to something good.