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| well, the painting is finally done, completed, fini, accomplished! it hasn't settled in yet, but i imagine it will tomorrow...i signed it and that's that, varnish and the end. on to newer exciting things!!!!! i ghosted a logo so the slightly dark spots are that...also, the signature in the lower left has been digitally added for the web...the actual sig is smaller and lighter in the lower left....anyway..."ready to run" is done. (24x30" acrylic on canvas original painting.)
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| well, just thought i'd post this. the infamous albatross painting is nearing completion...probably within the next 3 days. i'm working to try to get it off the easel so i can get on to something else...this has taken way too long (i won't say how long, because frankly, it's embarrassing).
this is 24x30", acrylic on canvas. the photos that can be seen are reference photos that i took of the bike and client for the portrait. i usually take as many photos as i can of the bike's details, cause when i'm at the easel working on it, trying to figure out what a particular shadow or highlight was part of is impossible.
anyway, here it is 99% finished. (by the way, that's a 1916 HD board track racer.
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| i had a good time painting this piece...something along the stream of consciousness ideas that get committed to a real image. i'm not sure what sparked the image, but i found the real challenge this time was to figure out where it came from. usually i don't go there, but this time i was curious about it for some reason. something about it seemed vaguely reminiscent of a painting that i'd experienced before. the most glaring was a memory of a paul klee self portrait entitled "senescio". i like the whimsy in much of klee's work...forms and colors that seem to me to be hung together on invisible threads... colors that dance and sparkle, and yet are strangely muted...like some game of hide and seek, now you do and now you don't. i can remember trying so hard to intellectualize his work when i first came across it...and then totally giving up and just enjoying his paintings with the part of me that doesn't sort things out.
now, i'm not saying that my colors and forms do that, but it was fun putting them together. i was curious as to where my head was when i was painting it...if asked "why are you painting it that way?" i would have had to reply "i dunno, it reminds me of something." and if queried further..."what does it remind you of?"...i would have to offer an equally frustrating "i don't know!"
creative senility! i'm sure the inquiring mind would have concluded that, but leaving out the "creative" part i'm sure. kind of a nice place to be...creative types, and "artists" in general always have that excuse...in how many other endeavors in life when asked what are we doing, can we say "i dunno...it just reminds me of something."
don't ask me why i titled the piece this way, it just seemed right... " Yawn and Yang"
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| i'm a sucker for calla lilies. for some reason they endlessly fascinate me. i've painted them and photographed them (oh, hundreds upon hundreds of photos) over the years and i'm still not tired of them. along the way i see fake lilies and am compelled to size them up against the real thing. which brings up an uncomfortable "mulling" that i entertain from time to time.
what if someone finds out i'm a fraud! painting or any kind of creating is a dangerous thing. i assume that i should make every attempt to be as honest as i can about my creative leanings. i also aspire to communicate my vision and my wonder at the things i see and ponder...i also worry at times that i may attain a modicum of success at this endeavor...and it will be painfully obvious to all that i am a fraud...shallow, bereft of any integrity, totally lacking in any kind of meaningful artistic sensibility, and, well, just a little kid pretending to be playing the same game as the "big kids".
it usually happens right after i finish something that i've worked hard to create and am feeling some sort of creative satisfaction. i'm enjoying the euphoria of having finished the piece... and then the plague of "what if's" descend like locusts to torment me with toxic doubt. (notably, "what if i'm deluding myself?", and on and on and on....)
so what's the remedy? maybe there isn't any. however, i do know that every new painting or creative work that i do is new...new to me at the very least , and new is always dangerous ground, uncharted territory. if my greatest aspiration is to create works that are new to those who look at them, i should be willing to take the risk of revealing the very personal, whatever revelation that might entail...as far as i can tell, it's the only way to make what might be termed "art".
so, without an apology........"Four Faux Flowers"
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