[Charcoal and Structure]

Over the weekend there was a shift. "Spectral Ligature" went over the couch, [Charcoal and Structure] came down and went back in my room.

It got some paint, it got some love; it got flipped and some linseed oil and some more attention. I am happy to report that there are a few areas that still need to be addressed once the paint dries more fully.

It is looking pretty with a reasonably bold palette (i.e. less muting and earthing compared to spectral ligature) with more vibrant colors and shapes and volumes.

I'm still using a freaking camera phone for pics, but once i get it further along, more accurate pics will follow.

If you are wondering about how the OHSK8.com show went, it was great; nice turn out, enthusiatic showing. I went with three others. I'm still not too impressed, but I'm also not as frustrated with my offering (it ended up looking a lot better than I had expected); but many of the others turned in some great stuff.

You can stop in Short North Tattoo until the end of next month to see them, or even buy one (i.e. mine! it's pretty cheap and i will do more work on it if you want it customized or whatever, ha!).

Spectral Ligature Update

Updated "Spectral Ligature" gallery;

Check it out with bit.ly/spectral-ligature

Most line and color structure is completed. I am still trying to resolve the equator of the piece. It also doesn't feel like the colors are accurate;not just because of my crappy camera but the somehow feel darker than reality and I want to lift them up. There is a muddiness obfuscating the lightness. I think I need to add more contrast, some heavy low tones.

and the pink on the right side is likely to become the second arm. it just kind of happened.

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.