One more pass over the body, and some finicky tinkering in the head-space.
Sweet lord, how happy it will make me to actually finish something. Even though—or especially because— it took almost a whole year. And is only 16″ x 12″.
Posts Tagged ‘“Mote”’
Really, Truly, Almost Finally Finished
Posted in Work in Progress, tagged "Mote", finishing on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Really, Really Close
Posted in Work in Progress, tagged "Mote" on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s mysterious why some paintings come so much more easily than others. Why is this one falling into place relatively easily, while “Lead Balloon” is torturing me, and making me feel like a painting-idiot?
A Winged Penis?
Posted in Work in Progress, tagged "Mote" on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mainly, I’ve just been wrestling with resolving the lower right-hand side of the headspace, and it’s been kind of killing me. Should the penis really have leaves coming out of it, as though it were winged? Was it better when it was flipped around the other way? And what about the red nose — is [...]
thisclose (?)
Posted in Work in Progress, tagged "Mote", finishing on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m hoping once I’m all moved into my new studio, and have the lights installed, that I can spend an evening or two just polishing this off. It would be so nice to have something finished.
“Mote” comes along
Posted in Work in Progress, tagged "Mote" on February 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Until this point, I have posted the progressive images of the paintings with the most recent stage coming last. However, I’m now changing the order, because I think it makes more sense to put the latest version at the top, and then one can scroll down to see what has come before. Frankly, this blog [...]
“Mote”
Posted in Work in Progress, tagged "Mote", titles on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was thinking of the bible verse about casting a mote out of your eye . . . or someone else’s eye . . . or something like that.
Oh, right, here it is.
Not because I have any particular connection to the bible, but it looks kind of like he’s trying to get something out of [...]
Overtired
Posted in Work in Progress, tagged "Mote" on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Whoa!!
I know, right? The brown?? Crazy!
I don’t know, I was just looking over at this painting leaning against the wall one night, right before I was about to leave the studio, and I just suddenly realized that the green background was kind of . . . blah. Nothing was popping, there was no good contrast, [...]
Inching Closer
Posted in Work in Progress, tagged "Mote" on December 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Headcase
Posted in Thinking Things Through, Work in Progress, tagged "Mote" on November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here is the other main idea I’m currently working on. Like the tree-people paintings, it involves another set of metamorphosing figures, but rather than showing bodies dissolving into foliage, I wanted to paint a kind of portrait – but a picture of the inside of someone’s head, rather than their face. I really had no [...]
