14 January 2010
A Disaster . . . .
or new goodness. Not sure on this one.
I figured I would post a total disaster with some positives coming out of it.
It certainly is a one of those paintings I started, put down, and then started a different painting on top of that one, but ended abandoning this new effort as well. The second attempt did have a nice compositional relationship to the first, and I felt it could add to the piece. However, that wasn't the outcome and I pretty much tossed it aside. Since I didn't care about what happened to the front of the image I have been using the canvas as a support for other smaller paintings. The marks have been made at random and seem to breathe new life into the work, demanding my attention, whereas before I had no reaction. It seems to have attained a level of dreamlike quality that I was never able to produce in the original two ideas. Funny enough I like it now more than ever. Still I have no plans on sending it to any of the galleries that represent me. One of those open studios scores if someone has an interest in it.
Lastly a quick plead for your knowledge. If any one knows how to do a time elapsed thing with jpegs, much like a slideshow, please send me a link. I'm sure there is some fancy software out there to do it for me, but I'd rather not go down that route. Since I often take pictures of my paintings at various points in their development, I wanted to continue posting those here as slideshows.
Thanks for stopping in.
New paintings will be up later in the week in coordination with two group shows in February.
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2 comments:
Hi Josh, I think if you go to "customize" ( above your heading ), there is a new "gadget" you can add for a slide show. I haven't used it but noticed it the other day. Can't wait to see what you are doing. How's life in Raleigh ?
i love this josh. i like that every time you look at it, you see something different. stop tossing things out!
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