new paints

Time in the studio painting has been pretty non-stop for the past few weeks… Summer in the southeast makes any prospect for cyanotyping hard to gauge with hurricane season.

I am almost done with Nebraska and Arizona in big blue paintings.

Summer in Savannah

After spending the beginning of the summer in California, interning at the Sylvia White Gallery and cyanotyping I am back in Savannah, GA and back in my studio. Here is my newest painting… almost done.

This piece is 6′3″x3′ in size. I have two more built and ready to go. Below is the subject for my next piece:

I am looking forward to spending some time with Nebraska:)

The world according to who?

I have been working on a new little tangent that fits nicely with my work I think.  I am painting over pre-exsisting globes.  I am challenging our idea of the world and the way it can sometimes feel to us… They will be all maps from memory.  I am looking forward to this group to add to the work.  It anyone would like to donate an old globe to the cause that would be turned into a piece of fine art, send it my way!

           

These are not the final images. Work in Progress.

Great White Painting

I have begun a new large scale project in paint.

I have been working on this imagery of the whole of the United States but fragmented and highlighting the major highways.

Originally, it began by making this very beefy and textural paint surfaces in tones of grey and the pastel colors that find in map books. img_2052.jpg

It was looking to dark and muddy so after much analysis and hours of sitting in front of blank panels I decided to make the roads red and green and the hand print patterned land as a white on white piece. Im very excited for how its going.

I’ve decided to make the water areas a neutral grey.

This is somewhat how each panel will look when finished.

Now I have to build 2 more matching panels to replace the other two grey ones that I started the other way but the overall effect should be worth it.

back with the fumes again

After a summer of felting, sewing, gluing, drawing and cyanotype I am missing the smell of paint, linseed oil and mineral spirits.

Im getting back in there to gear up for then new fall quarter.

I am working on a 6 panel project that compliments my US rivers 3 panel piece. Instead of being in earth tones of green, brown and red…the color palette is to be more industrial in the colors of Thomas guide map book (blue, yellow, some green, pink, purple, and that weird brownish color) with an overal grey tones feeling. It will be in lines from hand prints as before but this time I am carving out the major highways. I have the first one almost done. Im working from west to east.

detail

And I am starting the second.

For your memory… this is what the rivers one looked like: US rivers

and I took some new details of it recently…

summer painting

I haven’t been painting much this summer. Mostly working in alternative media, drawing and with fibers. It’s been lots of fun and I feel like I’ve gotten a lot done but I am starting to miss the smell of linseed oil a murphey’s…

Here is one I did do.

(detail)