Thursday, November 27, 2008
I finally had a chance to take some photos of my old “Fool’s Mate” painting, the giant 6′x4.5′ kaiju themed work that started my series of giant lizard paintings. It’s still one of the best in the set, and looks quite beautiful in its giant frame. You may have noticed also that I’ve finally imported all of my art posts to this blog (phasing out the other one), so if you search for things like “Cold Water Extraction” you’ll find info on projects I did during the period I was locked out of this domain.
Click for a closeup:
Sunday, February 17, 2008
I think I’m happy with this painting and consider it “complete” now. A reminder for anyone seeing only this entry that the painting was very difficult to photograph accurately because it is painted with iridescent pearl pigment. With this completion I don’t have any major painting projects on the go, so now I have to decide what to tackle next.
Click to zoom in, and this painting is currently unsold if anyone want to make me a reasonable offer.
Saturday, February 16, 2008
I spent a little more time on this painting, colouring in the initial snake set. It’s really an impossible painting to capture because it’s painted almost entirely with iridescent pigment. I also thought it looked a little unbalanced so I added a few more snakes to the scene and am now much happier with how it’s turning out. Click to zoom in.
This painting is not for sale, but I will trade it for appropriate amounts of opiate-containing pills. Note to lawyers: that’s a joke. However, I will mention that there is codeine mixed into the paint, not that there would be any way to extract it from the paint in any non-toxic form.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
I have to get some lights for my house. I bought into this “15 watt fluorescent bulb” scam where they tell you it’s equivalent to normal lighting, but seriously, I might as well be painting in the dark. It’s ridiculous. I work during the day and generally end up squeezing in painting to the evening… I’ll probably just cop out and put standard 100 watt incandescents in, which are nice and blinding.
I was told today that my shirt makes me look dated.
Anyway, some of the snakes need to be lightened a bit, and some need to be darkened a bit. Then the spots, the rest of the codeine extraction paraphernalia, and this one is done other than the frame… And judging by the photo, I need to get some sleep!!!
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
It’s been very hard finding time to paint lately… work, work, work, definitely making me a dull boy. I painted the shell of the turtle today as well as roughing out the pills. You can click the picture to zoom into a bigger shot, and if you’d like to see some textural detail, click here.
