i like and also do not like rain.
May 28, 2008
More work with focus and color staining. trying to work the paint in the paper, instead of on top of it. Water a hair too hot helping a bit- maybe destroying things. no idea.
I am more and more a psychotic paint-to-surface purist. I have for a long time forced myself not to refer to anything while drawing, now trying to extend it to painting. I figure if I need reference by the time I am getting down to work then I have not done my homework and all is lost. I think the Grime said “look once, hard and then never look again.” Very Prix De Rome. Almost all of the painting I have done in the last 4 or 5 months has been without line-work or premonition. Just brush to paper. No looking, just working. Put the color on the paper. No reference, all internal. Think I am starting to get somewhere. Thinking there is some sort of PRB marxist undercurrent- don’t understand it yet. more later.
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Most fun I have had tattooing in forever. Best skin on the planet.
That is all. Thank you.
pork business
May 26, 2008
new tat-doos.
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ok.
also:
amazing. really.
egads, y’all. anyone else tired of drunks? I’m working alone tomorrow and thinking i need lock the doors and put some pretentious “appointments only” sign, after the load of trash boozers i had waltz down my stairs today. shit. memorial day? i’d bet yer dead granpappy is just humming a happy tune about taking that bullet in war so’s that you’d have a whole new monday to drink yourself pissed.
volf und schull.
May 16, 2008
chris is really tough. no shit. still can’t believe he let me put that moon on the top of his shoulder. ouch.
have you heard his band Fear the Vacuum? so good.
still working through this fuzzy semitransparent vein in the paintings. happy with this one. “if you cannot make it good, make it big. if you cannot make it big make it red.” right?
leaky moon
May 14, 2008
finished a painting. working on a tangential fuzzy wavelength right now trying for transparency- diaphanous layers and out-of-focus bits. fun. or not. we’ll see.
tattooz!
hurrah.
sputnik
May 11, 2008
put a sputnik wind-up tat-stabbo on sky’s neck. inspired after we all had film day at the shop, watched alix lambert’s mark of cain- a docu about incarcerated ruskies tattooing eachother behind bars.
also: giant stigmata.
and i finished a painting.
that is all.
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