it's been a while !!

WHERE TO BEGIN ?

had started the spring with a pinch nerve in the back that killed my creativity . . . productiveness . . . .  but did still managed to get a few things done.  did one chalk fest in downey where we worked on paper which ended up being my worse piece ever!!  and in public not good for one's ego especially a professional but at the same time i often have scribble scratch but in time it's the final product that makes me who i am. one step toward the next.

i did finally start and finish my second piece of the behind the glass series . . . polar plunge.  that alone took 3 months and tons if not thousands of glazed layers.  as i photographed my journey some of the early stages look great . . . . but it was the actual look of the canvas that drove me to it's final stage. 

1st round of stages

so in the beginning lots of movement and development of the rock mass that was in view . . .  and a second polar bear.  the paint was way too thin on the canvas and the washes of movement were separate strokes not the large mass of water that i wanted.  i wanted to come specific elements to come a live : cold water . . the glass . . . under and above water.  in the last frame above things started to smooth out with the water.

second round of stages

things were coming along but the water lapping against the window was a little too wavy . . . wanted it more subtle for this series (at one point i poured alcohol on the waves and scraped off the paint). the second picture i added white to make sure the areas i liked didn't get darker because there were more layers of blues and . . . to come.  the next to last starting to get rid of that milkiness left from the whites. (i say whites because sometimes i add other colors to alter the titanium white).  the last in the second round of pics is getting there.  in the end even though the bottom is dark you still get the sense of a mass being there on the left . . . the feel of the rock though unseen still exists.

hanging in the gallery