Charcoal and Structure: on hold, gesso on new canvas drying

quick update, ive got this one over the couch for now. i laid in bed for awhile last night, and it's not stuck, i'm just laying off it for awhile. i grabbed another 4'x8' canvas from the basement, did some gesso touch-up and it should be primed and ready for when i get home from figure drawing tonight (about 9p). my friend kate gave me some good advice on painting, part of which being about getting your pieces to talk to each other. when i used to do work in rapid succession in college, or when i had multiple art classes in general and concurrent projects in each, i was regularly doing this without cognating it. im hoping to get that ball rolling again by working on two paintings at once.

anyway, here's the current look (and yes, sorry, i will try to get a natural light pic tonight):

 

Charcoal & Structure: [Untitled] Painting for sale - in progress

On top of posting a gallery, I've decided to try and start moving paintings.

Starting with this one. I think I sold one awhile back, but this is basically my first for real painting I'm selling. Currently it's obviously in progress but mfg needs some non-public transit! 

Anyway, I'm shooting for a patron more than to find this wonderful painting that has only just begun to sprout. So anyway, if anyone is interested in buying the piece, or being a patron in some faculty, you can watch on etsy or as always email me at mfgink@gmail.com

Gallery: "Charcoal and Structure" (at the mfg photo bin)

So I'm really happy to have the painting thing happening again.

The best place for viewing more than a fleeting one or two (of my crappy pics) is at the mfg photo bin; so I created a new gallery (tentatively) called "Charcoal & Structure"

    So now you can skip the commentary and just the sauce pls

We like to sleep in, but still I like to wake up to you

after getting into it with some napthanol and touching up and digging in on some of the purple tonesIn between lamenting the end of the season of Game of Thrones, being bittersweetly attendant to the new True Blood season, avoiding whoever Casey Anthony is and her trial, and holding my breath for the last minutes of Two and a Half Men before Wilfred comes on, I got a bit more painting done.

Actually, I started tidying up the house more than doing anything yesterday. Still, Wilfred is a great wake-up for people dying slow deaths inside. Thanks Mr. Gann.

So despite woes about unemployment rates in Ohio, the homeless guy that sells Street Speech in front of my building told me that he is marrying Greta, who sells the paper about a block away. Apparently, they've been living on the streets together for two years or so. Homelessness. Shit. Sometimes I worry about budget cuts, how to file for unemployment (i tried about ten years ago but wasn't approved?); subsequently I worry about passing away in a heap of [now they can be Yuengling!] bottles and pizza boxes. It seems so bourgeois.

Anyway, lets get to the point of this post. Since I'm less of the how to guru, and more of the I'm going to work through this and show my work, I'm posting an update to "I've Begun a painting and I still like it a day later".  I'll put up some new pics and whats going on.

i like the structural component of this frame

not much of a change in this area yet    

right side-panel. waiting on direction.

but heres the rest of the area in more context. having trouble resolving the space above with below

I'm starting to fall asleep dreaming in lines and colors again; it had been so long I had forgotten about it and thought it was some facet of smoking pot. I had some Yo-Yo Ma on the speakers last  night, I had never realized how much the cello is all about lines and space. And for me, space is the same as color in music. so here's the color build; im probably going to pull the green through the center and out the top left with yellows heavy in the center 

  so here's the overall after another few hours of work. im a bit excited about the color build up, but i'm also having trouble with some of the structural elements 

Line and space and color are all about vibrations. A line roughly hewn cutting across a plane, or reaching through a dimension, or iterating itself sketchily in hatches. The color, a signifier of light and weight and depth and at the same time a mass of void, like someone looking out from the interior of a mass of muscle.

I've begun a painting, and I still like it a day later

Here is the unfolding in pictures:

 blank, 4'x8'   color structuringcharcoal structuring under-color structuring; 130am, had to sleep 

So this is a bit of PBS too. I had a particular Gayngs lyric in my head for much of the color structuring, 'dark star approaching'. My room smells of mineral spirits, and I will need to be going to Utrecht tonight to pick up some supplies (brushes, linseed oil, pigment). I am happy to be doing so though because it feels good to be getting some work done.

One of the primary aspects of working is hygiene. In particular, having a specific place, to do a specific thing. The other aspect is being reminded of that thing. Setting this up in my room, which is basically for sleeping and dressing in the morning, violates a portion of the hygiene policy, but when I had my "studio" set up downstairs I was never reminded, let alone enticed, to pick up working. When I did, it felt like it was supposed to be some special event, as opposed to just the thing I do; the latter is how I really work productively.

The PBS is to do with tapping into reordering your life to place focus where it had been diverted. I had no reminder of past works and no encouragement to continue in the present. Now I have paintings hanging in my home and an unfinished one in my room imposing itself on every movement I make in there (except when I lay down to bed).

Update on 2:44PM by mfg

Check it!, I'm selling out!