I was going to put a up a new post and in a moment of oops I erased the the last post. I don’t exactly remember what was said in it but it went like this. Blah blah blah blah blah, painting, blah blah blah blah. Ok, and then I showed these two paintings.
I think I’m overworking myself on paintings. I haven’t been posting half the paintings I’ve been doing and most of what I’ve worked on I just ended up painting over anyway. I get on these streaks where I just draw and paint which seems non stop. For instance last week I painted 4 in a day, I get compulsive that way. If I sketch something on a piece of paper I then think, “I should just put this on a panel”. Then I see the drawing on the panel and think, “Well, since it’s on the panel then maybe I have time to paint in the eyes at least”. As soon as I paint anything I can’t seem to stop. I know if I put off painting the rest the next day then I will come back to the painting no longer interested in what I had put down previously and will immediately look at the drawing and begin to paint over it. I have no problems with my attention span in other parts of my life but when it comes to my work I have a very short one. I’m always thinking let me get this one over with so I can get to the next one because the next one, that one is going to be good. In fact as I’m writing this I have this feeling that the next one (the good one that is) is right around the corner. I might have to muddle through a large batch of paintings to get there but when I do it’ll be a good feeling and when that one’s done I’ll just go on to the next painting. I realize finding those paintings I look at as successful when I’m done bring a pleasurable feeling but not half as pleasurable as the process of painting itself no matter what the outcome is.
Here are two more for Frank to finish. I’m going slow at building pieces for him because he’s working on a few things. We’re doing 10 in total, but I’m going to hit the last 6 pretty soon so I have time to send them out and he has time to work on them.
So this was a hard painting for me, ok wait, hard wouldn’t be the right way to describe it. This painting was tedious and annoying. After figuring out the areas in which I wouldn’t be painting I of course began painting. Following in the lines is a hard task for me so this painting took me much longer to paint than most of my other pieces. Hours later when I was finished I complained to my wife about how difficult it was for me to complete it and her response was, ” Why didn’t you just tape it off ? “. Her simple response made me feel foolish because she was right. Why didn’t I just tape it off ? Oh well, it’s done now.
Here’s another piece going out for Frank Gonzales to finish. It will be traveling in the same box as the last posted painting. I hope these two ladies are chatty because it’s a long drive. The next pieces I start for Frank to finish will be completely different from these two, well at least they are in my head. The trick is to get out what I see in my head on a panel.
So I haven’t been posting very often lately but I have been painting a lot because I have a few shows coming up. Here’s a painting I did that I’ll be sending out to New York for Frank Gonzales to finish and add his sweet little touches to it. We’re going to be doing 10 collabs for a show during the Sundance film festival.
Here are 6 pictures from yesterdays painting. I drew the face on the panel weeks ago and never knew if I wanted to paint it or not so i decided to just do it and see where it went. Click the pics for bigger image.
I then decided to cut up some papers and do some patchwork around the head.
Finally the finished piece.
During my studio cleanup I found this old painting inside the closet. I used to love ths painting and to tell you the truth I still love it. So simple and the only hard part was I glued some corn husk along the left side with the aid of liquitex gel medium. Why did I put corn husk on the side, why not? I don’t remember the title so I’ll just call it “Lost” for now. It was painted sometime between 2003-2005 I think, I painted it for a solo show at Scribble Theory Gallery which was the best gallery in Orange County, California at the time till they closed up. It was a great place to see good work showing guys like Derek Hess, Frank Gonzales, Blaine Fontana, Jophen Stein and a bunch of other great artist. I think It would be great if they could do a reunion show but oh well time marches on I guess.
