Then, an old filmaker/photographer friend of mine came to visit from NY and we talked all night about projects we're both working on and ones we WISH we were working on. One of the subjects we touched on was how I need a headshot for the back of all those fancy pants books I make. The idea of posing for them makes me uncomfortable,...just makes me feel fucking vain and dirty. After he rolled back to NY, I began thinking about how much of my painting career was focused on portraits and how I did many self portraits during that time.
That made me starting thinking of my work now, and how most of it is in black and white. I think black and white works a different part of my brain then color work, but it still feels like I can push ink around like I used to push paint. I did this little ink study between pages.
I'd like to get to work with more color this year, and that reminded me of this short style test I did a few months back. I wanted to see if I could do a fully fleshed image in under a half hour using rough inking and computer color. Not perfect, there are PLENTY of drawing and color problems with this, but it was an interesting exercise.Think I got this done in under 20 minutes, not including scanning.
Anyway, no more rambling. Back to he grind.Mike
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Hey Mike, I feel your pain my friend. Your words are an encouragement to me to schedule some time to do some more painting myself. There's nothing more frustrating, yet rewarding about "pushing that paint around", eh? We need to keep encouraging each other to keep striving and growing!
Take care!
Someone's a bad ass art machine and it makes me wanna tackle a canvas and have my way with it!!!
HA! Let's all fucking promise to paint more! Is started making myself carry a small water color set and paper wherever I go. Let's see what comes of it.
mike
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