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Blu Indy at the Harrison this Friday!

11/27/2016

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Link to HArrison Center for the ARts
Roma is part of the Blu Indy show for December.  The opening reception is this Friday!

Meanwhile, Indiana Sightglass is rapidly approaching completion.  I feel like painting another layered map next, but I'm not sure what location or time period...

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Chicago

11/20/2016

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Sorry for the late update.  I was in Chicago with 43 amazing students to see galleries and visit the Art Institute.  

 My painting Roma has been accepted into an art show at the Harrison Center for December.  I will post more about that next week.  

Indiana Sightglass progresses.  You can see the most recent picture in its tab under recent work.  
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We are still here!

11/12/2016

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What an emotional roller coaster ride of a week here in America.  I was working on Indiana Sightglass as the results of the election came in.  I shed a few tears, I'm not going to lie.

Regardless, I love this state.  Here is my painting of it in progress.
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A canvas that hugs you!

11/5/2016

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And not in a good way.  I recently had my painting Roma on display.  She was always a little bowed, but when I would lay the painting on the ground it would lay flat.  It is a really big painting.  The only wall large enough for me to hang it on currently has Suffragette, and since that was an engineering feat to hang (that employed ropes, pulleys, and two helpers), I decided that I would just have to hope that Roma would lay flat when she was hung on a wall.  

Well, long-story-short, she did not.  It literally felt like the canvas was trying to free itself from the wall to hug the viewer.  Agh.  

So on the strike date for the show (the day all of the artists take their work home) I un-stretched the canvas and rebuilt it.  

I learned a valuable lesson that I thought I could share here.  

If you are going to stretch a canvas, always have the cross braces attached BEFORE you staple the canvas to the stretcher bars.  When I stretched Roma the first time, I didn't have the cross braces yet but I really wanted to start working on it, so I went ahead and stretched the canvas.  When I put the cross braces on after the canvas was stretched, the canvas was so taught that the middle of the 88 inch cross brace was bowing.  I was barely able to wedge the cross braces into place.  Hence a lot of bowing canvas.

No worries though, I re-stretched Roma and she is once again a beauty to behold.  
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  • Blog
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  • Artwork
    • 2023 >
      • Mons
      • Nova Hydrographica Revisited
      • Pax
      • Greenfield Community Mural
    • 2022 >
      • Baby Baker's Mural
      • 145 McKim Mural
      • 143 McKim Mural
      • Orions Van Gogh
      • Dinah's Europe
    • 2021 >
      • Kroger Mural
      • Vote!
      • Indy Arts Fest Mural
      • Geoff's Guitar
      • Prologis Mural
    • 2020 >
      • Theorem
      • Virtus
    • 2019 >
      • Typical Whorl
      • Nike
      • Genus II
      • Consumption
    • 2018 >
      • Welcome Race Fans
    • 2017 >
      • Principio Obstate
      • Genus
      • Cayuga White
      • Indiana Sightglass
      • Nova Hydrographica
    • 2016 >
      • Mucha Mary Sullivan
      • Suffragette
      • Dreamscape
      • Fortuna Brevis
      • Roma
      • Dark Light
      • Layered Self Portrait
    • 2015 >
      • Very Versailles
      • All Art Must Die
      • Tamara Nike
      • Charybdis (the Second)
      • I Should Have Been a Racecar
      • Art Vs. Art
      • Charybdis, Epic for Emily