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i guess somehow the universe always works things out. i got asked by some really good friends to do a poster for their theatre production, and of course i said i could.
but then, as usual with every flyer or poster gig, they came up and said the deadline was immediate ~ i always hate how that happens. i’m cool for doing things for friends and low pay when i can tinker with it on the side, but when it requires me to drop everything to get it done out of responsibility and there is little fiscal payout ( i know the exposure and karma of it is always a good thing…) i realize i just can’t do it any more. i felt bad, since i think this was the first job i’ve ever had to turn down, but it just wasn’t in the cards.
and then the next day i get an email from someone to commission me for a portrait! someone’s watching. i guess i made the right move. she has the perfect beauty mark. made for Rubenesque portraiture. So this thing i can work on while i still try to figure out this Solo show thing….
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some more sketches: a few from an older one that i sold and never put up (i spilled a coffee in my bag all over it: see if you can spot it!!)
there’s always an option to render these things more, but for me, they’re just little jots to get a thought out, the painting being where more time is spent. that’s all i need. sometimes i want to really go in there and flesh out the drawings, but then there would be no point for a painting maybe? i dunno.
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i am officially a lightweight now. last night one hit did me in like nothin i’ve ever felt before. i did manage to scratch out some doodles before it hit me, but man: wow. i guess, upon looking at these this morning: maybe some sort of horse cavalry sketch??? and….demonic, age afflicted cherubs again. they just keep poppin up.
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with all the advancements in technology and moleskine still can’t even make an opening page to their sketchbook that gets rid of that stupid glued-up half inch gutter. what the fuck moleskine. i just don’t understand it…i hadn’t had a sketchbook since december, so i bought one today. and, with all the options of any sort of vision to put down, i wanted to draw the thrilling motif of a guy resting on a stick. i actually think it could make a good painting: ‘resting on his laurels’ or something to that end…
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a little wild card. i messed up on the last painting for a series of four commissioned pieces. so i did some encaustic work over a sketch. i like it.
again, this REALLY is the last of the little heads. i just had to finish up this one last commission. i swear.
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a little brown study! i haven’t tried to paint myself for eons. i started this after seeing to the Degas exhibit at the MFA (not that that really means anything!), but haven’t had the patience to really look…
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i never posted this as a final painting, but i stopped into Corey Daniels Gallery in Wells, ME today to drop off some stuff and got a good photo of it. i want to take it back and do some more painting on it eventually, but in the meantime i am quite fond of it. just knowing personally how many goddamn layers there are that i scuffed out haha
‘mutiny’ 36 x something?
oil on canvas, 2011
available @ Corey Daniels Gallery
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i got a copy of my book today! i’d say overall it got printed pretty well, but man some of those gutter/bleed/trim lines look filthy. i think i need to clean it up a bit. i wish Blurb allowed a test print, but oh well i’m trying to figure this all out realtime! so, i think i may end up ordering another copy and seeing if it’s any better. i wish i knew what i was doing
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rather than mess it up by going into the underpainting, something that has been happening way way way too much recently, i was just like: whatever, done. ps i didn’t put that hokey gouge in the top of the frame it was already there. honest. i like keeping things in a simple form like this.
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process! i’ve got a few more days…..i hope something good happens.
