Destroy This Painting - Part 2

At this point I've gotten another layer on top of the painting. Will be adding more texture and metallic colors with each layer. Only have a short time to finish it. Back to work!

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An Awakening

Today was all about shopping for post-Halloween deals. My daughter and I hit up several of the stores that pop up this time of year in search of cool stuff on the cheap. All we ended up with was a set of vampire fangs and a domino mask. For someone who loves Halloween like I do, this was a little surprising. I just wasn't feeling it this year.

While we were out and about we decided to check out a "new" sculpture in Chesterfield. It's a second casting of J. Seward Johnson's "The Awakening". The original is located near Washington D.C. and was electronically scanned to make a new mold for this copy.

I was a little bit let down when I finally got to see it. What I had imagined was seeing dramatic views like this: In reality it looked like this:Tons of yuppies watching their kids climb on it like a jungle gym. If you're trying to get photos this is a worst case scenario. Add a pair of barely charged camera batteries and it was the photo trip from hell. If you are planning to take photos of this thing, remember to go on a crappy weather day. You'll thank me later.

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Destroy This Painting

"Remastered" is just around the corner and I'm about halfway done with my first piece. Up until this point I've followed the original to make sure that it was true to it. Now I'm going to destroy this painting:

Since the days when I first started throwing a pencil around the consensus of the other artists who inspired me was that it was totally uncool to copy anything. Those schoolyard lessons still affect the way I work, so I'm going to use it to my advantage. I don't really like that I've made something so similar to another person's work so I'm going to keep painting until it becomes my own.

Thursday night I met up with the painting group again. I had a good time for the most part though the evening had a bit of a strange vibe to it. I painted this based on a loose sketch on a restaurant place mat: Originally it was going to have an orange face and a blue "sky" with clouds etc. I decided to take the unnatural approach. It seems I'll end up with an accidental series based on the dark side of the sun.......

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