I finished installment numbers three and four of the ACEO series that I started (see two posts earlier). 
I like the possibilities- working in this combination style I mean. This series wasn't all that planned, just sorta of doing some 'thinking out loud' - on paper with paint that is. Overall I'm pretty happy with the series and decided to post it to eBay to see if they go or not (along with a few other pieces, too). Yes, yes the fourth was inspired by the Bloc Party song.
I turned out an alternate version of the Corset Girl on black vinyl sticker. And I'm trying to finish up the last version of the her as my second submission for the Vinyl Killers show...
Posted at 5:18 PM on Thursday, September 29, 2005
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I officially have work in Asia. I sold two works on the K-Spray tour: Ye Olde Hangman sold in Hong Kong and Buy!Buy!Buy! sold in Bangkok. K-Swiss is considering buying some the unsold work for permanent display in some of their concept stores, but I'm still waiting to hear if any of them are mine.
I officially have work in Asia. I sold two works on the K-Spray tour: Ye Olde Hangman sold in Hong Kong and Buy!Buy!Buy! sold in Bangkok. K-Swiss is considering buying some the unsold work for permanent display in some of their concept stores, but I'm still waiting to hear if any of them are mine.
Posted at 10:43 PM on Thursday, September 22, 2005
I've been thinking about merging styles for awhile now. My "pre-stencil era" painting / drawing style with the whole stenciling bit. I finally got around to testing this out. I went with a smaller format to start. As you can see small = the size of a playing card. The size-of-a-playing-card piece of art isn't just out of the blue. It seems there's a market on eBay specifically geared around the idea of the aceo: "Art Card Editions and Originals." Miniature, inexpensive art... go ahead do an aceo search and you'll see. So I figured I'd make a few since I wanted to experiment with this new combo-style anyhow.
I started with spray painted base coats and stenciled backgrounds. There will be four versions of this piece. After the backgrounds were all painted, I went ahead and broke out the acrylics, brushes, and other assorted painting to tools to 'degrade' the surface. You know how I like to own that surface. Here's what the surface looked like at stage of the game.
After that I worked out what I wanted to use for the main image and cut a stencil to work from. Then I broke out the spray paint again and added that over the top of my four backgrounds.
For the final stage it was a mix of acrylic washes and pens. Sure there's variations when you stencil an image each time, but tha's pretty minor if you get the registration correct. I'd been making variations of each image all along, but it was strictly through the use of varied background surfaces and techniques applied around the main image. This adds the same variability to the actual subject / main image, but it still has the relationship of a repeated stencil. I feel I can push this idea in a lot of different ways.
Here's version 2 of four, hot off the studio desk.
I've been thinking about merging styles for awhile now. My "pre-stencil era" painting / drawing style with the whole stenciling bit. I finally got around to testing this out. I went with a smaller format to start. As you can see small = the size of a playing card. The size-of-a-playing-card piece of art isn't just out of the blue. It seems there's a market on eBay specifically geared around the idea of the aceo: "Art Card Editions and Originals." Miniature, inexpensive art... go ahead do an aceo search and you'll see. So I figured I'd make a few since I wanted to experiment with this new combo-style anyhow.
I started with spray painted base coats and stenciled backgrounds. There will be four versions of this piece. After the backgrounds were all painted, I went ahead and broke out the acrylics, brushes, and other assorted painting to tools to 'degrade' the surface. You know how I like to own that surface. Here's what the surface looked like at stage of the game.
After that I worked out what I wanted to use for the main image and cut a stencil to work from. Then I broke out the spray paint again and added that over the top of my four backgrounds.
For the final stage it was a mix of acrylic washes and pens. Sure there's variations when you stencil an image each time, but tha's pretty minor if you get the registration correct. I'd been making variations of each image all along, but it was strictly through the use of varied background surfaces and techniques applied around the main image. This adds the same variability to the actual subject / main image, but it still has the relationship of a repeated stencil. I feel I can push this idea in a lot of different ways.
Here's version 2 of four, hot off the studio desk.
Posted at 5:39 PM on Friday, September 16, 2005
By all accounts that I've read (including a recap by the artist that put the show together), the Street Sweepers show went over really well. So well in fact that the gallery owners asked him to do another one next year. Nice.
Here's a whole mess of pics from that event. Over on the right is another shot from it.
The K-Spray Asia tour is currently underway. From what I've heard, it too went very well in both of the two initial cities. Hopefully everything runs smoothly for the rest of the tour.
Here's a start to the second record that will eventually end up in Portland for the Vinyl Killers 3 show. The texture was built up using rubbery coasters (same as those used in a prior post)- I sprayed them with paint and then used them as a stamp pretty much. I then laid a light coat of white over the top of that to knock the textures down (or back from the surface). After that I added the circles. More to come on this...
It's the little things that make me happy.
By all accounts that I've read (including a recap by the artist that put the show together), the Street Sweepers show went over really well. So well in fact that the gallery owners asked him to do another one next year. Nice.Here's a whole mess of pics from that event. Over on the right is another shot from it.
The K-Spray Asia tour is currently underway. From what I've heard, it too went very well in both of the two initial cities. Hopefully everything runs smoothly for the rest of the tour.
Here's a start to the second record that will eventually end up in Portland for the Vinyl Killers 3 show. The texture was built up using rubbery coasters (same as those used in a prior post)- I sprayed them with paint and then used them as a stamp pretty much. I then laid a light coat of white over the top of that to knock the textures down (or back from the surface). After that I added the circles. More to come on this...
It's the little things that make me happy.
Posted at 5:39 PM on Friday, September 09, 2005
On the right is one of the pieces that I will be sending over to Klutch for the VK3 show.
I stayed with Black & White for this one all around. Not sure why... just felt right. And there it is.
Three of the last four art auctions went. That's nice. I can dig it. Also working on the second record for the Vinyl Killers show and some small scale / art-card pieces that I'll be eBaying very inexpensively when they're done.
Oh and Nick P. is working on a website for me (he did the Farewell Society site too). I saw the first page recently... it will be sweet to have an actual website.
On the right is one of the pieces that I will be sending over to Klutch for the VK3 show.I stayed with Black & White for this one all around. Not sure why... just felt right. And there it is.
Three of the last four art auctions went. That's nice. I can dig it. Also working on the second record for the Vinyl Killers show and some small scale / art-card pieces that I'll be eBaying very inexpensively when they're done.
Oh and Nick P. is working on a website for me (he did the Farewell Society site too). I saw the first page recently... it will be sweet to have an actual website.