Week 8

2 New smaller ones from my "pond" series. The first one will be the only one with a real horizon line. A bit of abstraction. A bit of realism. I also like the photo-like quality of the shots. These are fun.

This is another one that starts with a piece of photo. It is an assignment from my mentor. The small photo at the center is my grandfather in his Naval Uniform before shipping off to the pacific in WWII. 

I'm fairly happy with this one. It is doing a lot while doing a little. It's a different perspective, looking up. I am also finishing up my report on Peter Doig, April Gornik, and Verne Dawson. I talk in my paper about "the other" and how these artists move between worlds. I'm using a bit of narrative to make the viewer ask questions. The large unearthly plant at the center is called "Adam's Needle," and while it is a real plant, it can seem quite surreal to a first time viewer. I also think I endowed it and personified it a bit.

The storm one I'm working on is inspired by April Gornik. Trying to bring a lot of emotion to some storm clouds. Hers is an inner landscape of emotion.

Week 7

This week found me visiting Oklahoma University. Went through the museum there on campus. Interesting collection with a lot more older European works than I would have imagined. This first one (above) is another one in my pond series. I'm not as excited to keep working on these for whatever reason, but to quote Tony Apesos, "If it's worth doing, it's worth over-doing!"

This is revisiting one of my mentor's projects. I had to redo most of this one and I will need to start another one soon. 

Trying to do a dramatic one with the vertical format. 

I am very excited about these last two. Playing with the space a lot. Deep space in the beach one on the bottom, abrupt cut-off space in the first. Alien objects will be coming soon. These successfully capture my mentor's idea of all my works: Graceful, Sparse, unusual, timing. We agreed these were the 4 items I needed to incorporate to pull off a successful painting. Also working on my second paper, a study of the works of Doig, Gornik, and Dawson.

Week 6

Finished this small UFO one. Had a great meeting with my mentor this week. He responded to this one very well. I think I will do a few more in the series. They're small and fun.

Finished up this one. It's small, but the Weinermobile is parked in the lower right. Sort of a group 2 assignment. Speaking of my group, Jeffrey and I went to Open studio night at the Northrup King Building. I will also be in Dallas some time next week, so I will be sure to check out the local art offering there.

This one is done. 

Mentor and I both really liked how this assignment turned out. 

We also both agreed that this one didn't work as well. I'm going to go back in and try and "fix" it.  Stay tuned.