Working on some painting, hopefully by the times my mid-term critique comes around I'll have 9-10 finished paintings. Hopefully I'll be able to make at least 10 more so I have 20, so I can pick and choose what I want to show for thesis. I found this video of canadian artist Jen Mann making a portrait, thought it looked interesting so here it is: http://vimeo.com/55544289 . For whatever reason, you can't upload videos from the internet that aren't from youtube, monopoly playing bastards! So, there will be some pics of the paintings I worked on Monday and Tuesday after all this text stuff. So, well, that's it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well, it's getting to be about in the middle of the semester, and I have about 8-9 paintings, none of them completely. Although I will say that they all are at least 50% of the way towards done, so that's good. Went to Chelsea this Friday and saw some amazing galleries, and of course some that I didn't like so much. But, you have to take the good with the bad. I'll post some pictures I took at the galleries and my progress on some of my paintings. I'm trying to work my way through my list of realities, so for my thesis, I'd like to display the best paintings and drawings from that, if possible. If it turns out all the paintinga are really great ( I know, I'm optimistic), I'll just show all the paintings, and maybe have the sketches/drawings in the silent auction, who knows? So, from now on I'm thinking of ending with a little nugget of wisdom, from various sources, but today's is from Stephen King: “A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.” 

Update: turns out, there is no easy way to post a lot of pictures, you have to do it one at a time. So, that's what I'll do. I'll start with my paintings then show what I saw at Chelsea. It may take a while. You can right click and open the image in a new window to see a bigger version.