I met a guy named Mac. He has a beautiful sense of design. I took some notes on his artifacts and perhaps they could be included into future works.
Graphic Design
Stylized sun bursts
weaved photographs from mexico
dart board
red indian/chinese/victorian rugs… what kind of rugs are they? Persian?
light colored wood and white
I’ve been feeling kind of lonely lately. I happen to be thinking about someone who likes Garden State as much as I do. I thought I would make this and somewhere out there he might be thinking of the movie and we have a connected mind for at least a moment. Maybe one day I’ll give this to him. Maybe one day he’ll invite me to his birthday party. I like taking nice things from my favorite movies and painting them. When drawing or painting something, there’s a new intimacy with that object. All that time just looking at it, understanding angles, colors, curves, almost transcendental.
The Hills from Scottie’s photograph in England + tree + rabbit + what I tried to be a golden chrysanthemum = this. Something about slight gloom I like.
This little guys seem kind of boring, but at the same time, elegant and fun and maybe they’ll connect into a horizon line of spaced out trees. I don’t like the idea of cluttering these mini-paintings. VV find. I like the little metal handle at the top. I love purple.
Another VV find. I used the same steps to create the background as for “Rabbit.” The trees in this one needed two sizes of brushes to make them pop. The figure needed to be off to one side to offset the composition. Didn’t want it to be too symmetrical. I’ve never painted a mirror frame before. I like its photogenic qualities. Haha… I can really see myself in this one.
I like it. It helps give depth and color. This painting also kind of shows how much more round shapes are in my head (and my preferable aesthetic for nature.
Today, I am a little blue. I am experimenting a little more with the lying down figures. I realize that I am not used to working with these dimensions. The painting would look better with a little more room under the figure. Oh well. This painting might need something else to make it really work for me.
