Category: Art

Sketchbook Update Pt One

Heart Art 2011 Painting

Bustin’ out the paint this weekend after a lengthy hiatus. Here’s another post about a painting in progress. This time it’s for the AIGA Heart Art Auction 2011.

1. Part 1: The Underpainting

   

2. Part 2: The Expensive Reddening

   

3. Part 3: The Always Weird Iteration 3

   

4. Part 4: The Wreckening

   

5. Part 5: Goddamn Background Color

   

6. Part 6: Some Outlining

   

7. Part 7: Goddamnit The Paint Was Too Damn Watery

   

8. Part 8: Ooh, Here’s Where I Try to Inject an Olde-Style Banner into the Situation

   

9. Part 9: Added Some Higher-Contrast Color for Maximum Excellence

   

10. Part 10: NOW We’re Talkin’, Etc.

    

11. Part 11: WEIRD ORANGE ENHANCEMENT

    

12. Part 12: Whoops

    Good God. I de-oranged the orange.

    

13. Part 13: Additional Layer of Nonsense

    

14. Part 14: Getting Closer

    

15. Part 15: Trying Not To Ruin It, Part 1

    

16. Part 16: Fixed the Background—Trying Not To Ruin It, Part 2

    

Moving Next Door

It’s a long story, but this month I’ll be moving to the next door apartment. This is weird and also convenient. So now I’ve got six months of rental time to find a permanent condo or something, hopefully.

Things noticed so far during the move

• Too many goddamned paintings

  

• The paint-catcher canvas what saved me from many rental fees and fines

  

Blobbs Drawings

Here is where I test an image upload.

Two Recent Exhibition Photos

Here are two fairly recent exhibition photos:

• Open Wall at The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art

  January 22, 2010

  

• Bordo Bello Skateboard Art Fundraiser

  December 11, 2009

  

Moar Paintings

Watch Yourself

A collection of small acrylic paintings I’ve been working on lately.

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• Update Feb 06, 2012 – Here’s what it looks like in your goddamn dining room:

  

Bordo Bello Skateboard Paintings

Here are some iterations of my Bordo Bello skateboard paintings.

Small Face Paintings

Two of five paintings, as my scanner seems to have crapped out during scanning.

Huge Triptych in Progress – Part 9 – FINAL

This is done and DONE. And I’m pretty sure it still looks like this:

Abstract Painting Tutorial

1. Start out with a pretty sweet base painting
2. Fill in the edges
3. Repeat
4. Now that’s a fine looking painting you’ve got there

Small and Huge Abstract Paintings

And here are some done-and-DONE abstract acrylic paintings getting ready for a tentative show in Denver this March, 2010.
Brandon Harper Photo, I may need you again soon!

How to Ruin Eleven Paintings

Simply get carried away and add too much white and blue at once! Oh well, it’s all part of the painting process.

Next step: Resurrection. And then another ruining likely. And so on and so on…

Some Recent Drawings, Goddamnit

Some Abstracts in Progress

Here are some abstract paintings that have been in progress for a while.

The one on the right is looking pretty sweet. The one on the left is still battling against a bit of ‘teh mehz’.

Huge Triptych in Progress – Part 8

Huge Triptych in Progress – Part 6 or 7, I Guess

Added some additional differences between the middle and outer pieces. Added a weird blue deletion of the central head, ala the artwork for Iron Maiden’s “Can I Play with Madness”.

The situation becomes more complicated.

Recent Painting Progress

Painting progress keeps on and on. The darker pinks are influenced by looking too much at the great paintings of Philip Guston.