January 2015 Residency - All Work

                        

 

                                                    

Completed Work

One of the last of my finished pieces this semester and the only piece done entirely in black and white. The image on the right is a close-up of the child sleeping on the couch. The child was completed using a palette knife while everything else was just by brush. I feel that the fast-appearing brush strokes give the room a sense of energy that it would not have otherwise, considering the figure is meant to be sleeping. 

 

Small Works

Some of my completed smaller works - paint sketches.

 

Sketches

I have much more sketching with charcoal this semester than previously. Here are a few examples of my sketches. Of the sketches shown, two have become paintings.

 



Completed Experiment

2'x2'

Oil and tempera on panel

 

This completed piece was very experimental, but I am very happy with the result. I had my daughter paint a picture of her choice on one of my primed wood panels using black tempera paint. Once dry, I painted a view of my hallway on top of her image transparently. I feel that this piece offers a very interesting contrast of worlds. It contrasts the child-like imaginary world with the realistic world of the parent. I intentionally left some areas much more transparent and less "finished" than others in order to allow pieces of my daughter's drawing to show through. After completing this piece she accused me of ruining her painting.

Recent Completed Work (Possibly)

Work in Progress

I've made more progress on this 2'x4' painting on wood panel. This painting is meant to show the view down my hallway and into my living room where my children sit on the floor playing. There is a trail of debris left from my children that starts off larger in the foreground and becomes smaller as it goes further back. The perspective has been slightly distorted and the change in size has been intentionally exaggerated. I started off using a limited palette and am now beginning to add more color. There are still many changes that I plan on making before I will consider this painting finished.

 

This small painting of my daughter's shoe (4"x6") is meant to represent yet another trace left behind by my children. Wherever they go they leave behind a trail of toys, clothing, drawings, etc. This is also a close-up of part of the larger painting above. At first this painting was done entirely in back and white, but once dry I experimented with glazing to add some color.

 

 

This more recent painting is also on 2'x4' wood panel and it is also incomplete. This is the view looking into the chaos of my daughter's bedroom. It is meant to be a confrontational painting as it is my intention of having her looking up and making eye contact with the viewer, while at the same time guarding the mess behind her. I will be changing some aspects of this painting to better show her small size.

 

 

 

This is my most recent work in progress. This painting only 5"x6.5" and also on wood panel. So far it has been done entirely with a palette knife and I am working on using a much less limited color palette.