14 Paintings Progress

I've been painting pretty hard this week, even at the studio now on tired Sunday! I'm really pushing myself to get 18 hours/week of work done for this project.

Each un-stretched canvas is 10"x12"

As you can see some of the painted edges come to a sharp and distinct edge while others are a little more loose. I began working with the tighter edges but decided to see what would happen with the visual tension if I was less focused on the hard edge and more into letting the mark making show itself.

I have a deadline to have the whole group of 14 to be done by February the 8th (which sounds a lot further away than it is!)

I really thought I would be blowing through these but I had a very tentative start. Each piece seems to be coming out a bit quicker than the last.

This one will be finished this evening and after that I'll be adding some Damar Varnish I made into my medium mixture. I'm very excited for this as I've never worked with varnish before and am looking forward to seeing the results once the pieces are dry.

Went out with friends last night and had a really fun time... ended up eating my friend's pizza and then almost an entire box of mac and cheese out of the pot with a spoon, always a sign of a good night. So now I am tired and don't really want to work, but I suppose that is part of the professional practice, working a lot and meeting deadlines instead of just doing it whenever.

It's just me, my coffee and coco puffs.. I think we can do it.

p.s. all of these colors are a bit more bright in real life.

New Ideas

Here are some new sketches I've been working on for new paintings.

I'm using a new process which begins with doing digital sketches then printing those out and spending time with them in my studio.
Physical edits are made, worked on digitally further if needed and then on to the painting process.
This group is nearing the end of their editing phases and one is being worked on with oils in the studio.
These are to be seen as reference and only time will tell how closely they stay or far they move from these sketches.
More sketches are being worked on and aside from these I have a completely separate body of work developing:

I'm embarking on a journey into politically themed work. Hopefully I will be able to find some humor within all of the passion for change I am often consumed by while maintaining my message, I have things to say!

Stay tuned for further painting updates, this should be moving along quickly with all of these ideas moving around :)

In other news about getting my painting out and into the world, I stopped by The Better Bean Coffee Co. this afternoon in Bridgewater, got a killer Cafe Latte with Jeff and dropped off my information to be given to the owner so we'll see where that develops! Jeff has been going there for years and the place really seems to be developing every time I've stopped in there. Always new artwork showing and sandwiches now too! ART AND SANDWICHES!!!

If anybody has any more suggestions on places to get my paintings shown, please let me know!