City Pages and Gorilla Painting

This week's City Pages back-page comic... Snowmen behaving badly...



The Gorilla painting is coming to an end I think. I'm pleased how he's looking so far.



I don't think I posted this; it's a video for Foot In The Door (see previous post), and I appear about 1:26 minutes into it. Enjoy!

TTYL!

Foot in the Door

Photos courtesy of Heather Buscho, 2010

My friends Heather, Jenny, and I met up for MIA's Foot In The Door opening night. It was crazy-crowded, but worth every second. We saw lots of beautiful and wonderful art from many many Minnesotans, and dug the scene.


Detail of my piece.

Aside from materials that could rot or attract vermin, the only rule of the show was that it had to fit in "The Curator" (see picture below), a foot cubed. There were a lot of flat pieces, and a lot of sculpture, and apparently, a lot of videos and film (I didn't see the filmed parts). In total? Probably about 4800 pieces. Maybe 5000. Not sure.


"The Curator," copyright image Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2010

On through June! Got to it, goddangit!

TTYL!

Gorilla Evolution!

Cute, eh?

TTYL!

Gorilla Painting with Golden

I've been wanting to paint again for a long while, and this last week, I've started this painting. Here's what it's looking like right now. I need to work on the mouth, and of course, add pupils. Still a work in progress, mind you!



I've been painting with Golden™ Open Acrylic®, which is pretty neat. I don't pretend to understand the chemistry behind it, but this stuff takes a lot longer to dry! So I can take my time, and not have the metaphorical gun to my head of a quick drying time that acrylic usually means. (Though I'd never ever use Alizarin Crimson, if I can help it, this is a nice photo)



I've also been using Golden™'s fluid acrylics too. They paint like cream!

I'll take the time to write a better review of Golden™ paint in a later post.



Before I forget: HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

TTYL!