A FEW GOOD STARTS -
FEBRUARY 2004
February 10, 2004 - With a plethora of new canvases
littering my studio space, a whole bunch of new, brighter, and even
better paintings have begun to peek out from the painted mess of canvas,
palettes and dirty brushes in my studio located at
Blue
Genie. With January and
February's double header of openings now in the rear view, all my
concentration is focused on putting together about 30 paintings by April
for the next two
big shows in my little life here in Austin.
All the photos look crappy because they are works in progress, I'm not
too concerned with taking good pictures of these just yet, so hold on
until they're finished. Plus, my camera really bites.
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You can see an earlier
version of this painting in
January's
studio shots, and my ideas of royalty and servitude went out the
window (literally, as the window and bluebird came into the
picture). This painting is about springtime, awakenings and
coming into one's self. |
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This painting gave me the
hardest couple of nights of work in a long time. Every
decision was a fight, every color choice a tooth grinding battle .
I was extremely happy with where I left it last week, it just needs
a little more work. Looking at some of the other paintings
I've been working on, this one already seems stale to me in some
ways. The cigarette girl has become an official theme in
my work, this one is slinkier than most other women in my paintings
though. |
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There's plenty more to see about this painting by
clicking
here.
In early versions, he was a cocksure bastard taunting his opponent
in a game of chess. Once things were elevated to include a
lady and a picnic though, oddly enough, his exact gesture made him
weak in the knees, ready to crumble with the woman just outside his
grasp. |
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Somehow, Venice has popped into my work. And
instead of squishing and stretching the people in my paintings, the
gondola got the worst of it this time. I'm pretty hopped up on
this composition, and have had to rein in some runaway ideas with
this one as well. Oh yeah, the background is stolen from an
old Canaletto painting. |
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None of my paintings are ever planned out, but as I
started staring at this canvas, I thought for sure this would be a
painting of a couple at a small fishing hole type pond. But
the man dropped out, and I was going to add in an old fashioned type
bicycle to keep the woman company. That fell out of the
picture too, and her top fell off, exposing her breasts. How
will they ever show this at the Super Bowl? |
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