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.
and
Most fun I have had tattooing in forever. Best skin on the planet.
That is all. Thank you.
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.
