Week 2

Julia and I were in Chicago this work. She went for Land O' Lakes and I went Museum-hopping. Mostly I ran around the Institute of Arts and the Museum of Contemporary Art. I also have a good idea for some galleries for my next Chicago venture.  Assistant teaching is fun, but I found out that some grad students get PAID to do it.... DAMN. I also met with new mentor David Feinberg. We had a great critique today and he gave me two interesting assignments. Words don't really do them justice, so you'll just have to see them on the blog in the near future. Jeffrey and I also attended an AWESOME talk by Jerry Saltz at the U. He was amazing. I wasn't expecting much, but wow, he was inspiring! Busy week to say the least. OK, here's the work:

I decided to start a UFO series. Two sky studies here (above). They are smaller works on board. I don't have a lot of reason to do these except that I want to.

This is the first finished one from my "photography/painting" project. Sort of a painting collage when it's done. I think I will do around 12 or 16 of these total.

These two are about birds. Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock and also by a small book Hannah lent me about Oriental painting/marks. Top is base coat on canvas. This one I will paint thicker. Bottom one is on board. Bit more odd I hope...