This move was over 3 years of procrastination in the making. I should have been posting on a site address that used my actual name a long, long time ago. It's more professional that way. It's time.
My apologies for the hassle this causes to everyone who knows this site, links out to it, etc, but I had to do it eventually, and better sooner than later.
Here's a preview of my newest painting, which I will post on the new blog within the next couple of days. See you all there. :o)
1. natural light (tree shadows included) 2. artificial light 3. artificial light + blacklight = magic 4. uv/blacklight only 5. no light! no light i say! it glows in the dark!
And it's color changing! :oO
Okay, so that's not exactly new for me, but it's still awesome, and this one changes into a rainbow of colors. Sweet. I love my glow pigments.
Actually, I really wanted this piece to highlight all my Light Reactive techniques, so that each image would look very different from the next. I think it worked out pretty well. :oD The only difficulty I had was taking pictures of it in natural light. There are so many trees around where I live and the early December sun is at such an angle that it was virtually impossible to find a spot in my house that didn't have shadows from the trees. Personally, I thought that looked kind of rad, but I didn't want anyone to think that the huge dark patches were part of the painting itself. Fortunately, I managed to get one shot where the shadows were minimal.
It's been my favorite restaurant for about, oh, 15 years. The sushi there is impeccable. I enjoy its authenticity. There are so many Americanized sushi places out there nowadays, and so far I've found nothing that compares.
Anyway.
There was a fire this past weekend, and it destroyed much of the interior of the restaurant. The structure is still standing, and they hope to rebuild eventually. My heart just broke when I found out. We've developed personal relationships with many members of the staff, and I can't imagine how awful they must be feeling. It's just soul crushing to think about. If Jun-san and Irene-san happen to be reading this, know that we are thinking about you.
As for me, though I have suffered a personal loss in this experience, it's hard for me to feel as though my situation compares. It's sad all around. Either way, restaurants can be rebuilt, paintings can be remade. No lives were lost. In the end, it's all just stuff. As we used to say in the old Immersion days, it's about The Journey.
2. artificial/interior lighting 3. combined uv and artificial lighting 4. uv lighting only 5. no light (glow in the dark)
Ingredients: acrylic, beach sand, crushed glass, phosphorescent pigments, varnish, water & light on canvas.
Moonlight Mood is a Glenn Miller song. :o)
I don't know what it is about this painting that reminds me of a 1940's nightclub, but I seriously feel like mixing up a highball and swingin' the night away to a large orchestra. Hence, its title.
I should also note the the texture on this piece is so thick and texturey, it sticks up nearly half in inch away from the canvas. In some ways, it's more like sculpture. Or, as Colin put it, "an acrylic meteor."
2. artificial/interior lighting 3. combined uv and artificial lighting 4. uv lighting only 5. no light (glow in the dark)
Ingredients: acrylic, beach sand, crushed glass, phosphorescent pigments, varnish, water & light on canvas. "Water need not think to offer itself as a home for clear moonlight." --Sogi
I think I must find water to be spiritual, because I have an ongoing obsession with it. Water is essential for all forms of life. It gives life and takes life. A raindrop is so small and soft, yet a tsunami washes villages away.
The idea of living in the middle of the country somewhere far away from any large bodies of water seems nightmarish to me. Dry and nightmarish. What do you breathe out there? Dust? Dirt?
Truthfully, I'm also afraid of the ocean. I adore the ocean when I'm standing on a beach, or when I'm close to shore surrounded by turtles and yellow fishies. But deep water? Open ocean? Now that's a nightmare.
Cymatics! I don't have a fancy lead-in for that, it's just awesome and should be announced. Basically, cymatics is the study of wave phenomena, specifically sound wave vibrations. Look at this flower shape created through sound vibrations on water:
And if you're still with me and interested to see more, check out all these amazing variations in patterns this person created with a synthesizer and water:
A friend of mine was over last week and noted "all the moons" I was painting around my studio. This was true, but I really never think of myself as painting the moon, except maybe in a philosophical sense. I think of it more as exploring the light from the moon, or the mood of the moon. I'm not even sure it's necessarily inspired by the moon when I paint it. Maybe it's just a star. Or a planet. Or a circle. Maybe it's just light. Someone once encouraged me to "paint the moon" in a realistic way, with all the visible craters and regions on the moon we see every night, adding that "that would be REALLY interesting" if I did so.
1. natural lighting 2. artificial/interior lighting 3. combined uv and artificial lighting 4. uv lighting only 5. no light (glow in the dark)
Ingredients: acrylic, beach sand, crushed glass, phosphorescent pigments, varnish, water & light on canvas.
Ahhhh. Hello super ridiculously large painting. Nice to meet you.
Well, goodbye, rather, because I just shipped this piece off to Chicagoland today. Actually, it's kind of sad, I'd really grown used to the bright orange sunrise everyday. It was causing me to paint a wave of tealish blueish greenish paintings. Now my studio is totally unbalanced. And naked. Good thing I have a blank canvas the exact same size just waiting to be painted something colorful. Or maybe it will be dark and gray. Who knows.
This is the painting I was counting dots on. I counted every single dot. I won't be doing this again. I learned quickly that I can't listen to music and count simultaneously. And really, I prefer listening to music than counting 4,647 dots.
That's right. You heard me. This painting has 4,647 dots.
I wanted this piece to be extremely glowy. In the event that its owner doesn't get a blacklight to go with it (get one, Stephanie, get one) it should still light up the room after dark. (Get one, Stephanie, get one.)
What do you get when you mix a modern Canon DSLR with a vintage Argus?
We took a field trip to the park to play with our very different cameras and had a successfully artsy time. The vintage one belonged to my grandparents, before my mom saved it (plus a few others) from the Good Will pile. Phew.
