So I am working on a new page for the website that will house all of my LGP's. I.E. Little Gilded Prints. They will be prints of my art that I put onto a canvas. The buck wont stop there. I will then draw and collage gold leaf onto the canvas.
This will be a nice way of promoting the original paintings, and I will have something to take to art fairs other than my college art from 7 years ago. My goal is to have about 8 of these little guys by January on their page. Tomorrow I drop off Consumption at Blackline Studio and ship Novo Hydrographica LGP 1 to Miami. I have been varnishing it this week and got a little behind schedule when my son touched it in several places to see if the gloss varnish was still wet. Yes. Yes, it was. Back to Nike.
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It was accepted by D|A|C for their art show at Art Basel Miami. Woo hoo! In other good news, a tiny iteration of Consumption was accepted into a show at Blackline Studio in Fountain Square. It will be on display there in December. I'll share the event info when I get it. Well, not much else. I'm still waiting to hear back about a large scale installation proposal... It's so good! And so much work! I will be 40% more disappointed than relieved if I don't get it. Consumption, 30 x 46 inches, Mixed Media, 2018 And, Nike progresses.
![]() I have been wondering what to make that was water related to submit to a Design Art Concepts art call for Miami Art Basel. Well, I just finished an awesome water themed painting that took an entire year (with a few interruptions- like Speedway, 1909) BUT it was too large... hmmm... what to do... I decided to make a miniature recreation of Nova Hydrographica with some collaging techniques. I took a photo of my painting, flipped it in Photoshop and resized it to be a cropped version at 10 inches by 10 inches. I built a little canvas and did an acrylic transfer of the flipped image with clear gesso. After it completely dried, I carefully removed the paper by getting it wet and rolling it away. The ink from the print stays on the gesso, but gets a little fuzzy from the process. Next, I spray fixed it twice, then using some microns I started drawing on the image to clarify some of the details that were lost in the process. The icing on this little cake is gold leaf. I have been playing with it lately, on Nike, and on a ceramic fortune cookie that I got from @pegalito at the Faculty show at the Indianapolis Art Center in September. I don't know if this nugget will be accepted into the D|A|C show, but I am having fun making it! The Indy City Market was super fun yesterday. Monica Holden, a great ceramic artist, came out and hocked some art with me. I essentially gave away some of my college stuff it was so inexpensive, but I am happy to know they are in new homes where they might get seen. The art had been living in storage in my studio. I forgot to feed the meter though, so I lost $20. Overall I made $16 and 2 beers, not too shabby. It's a huge improvement over my $0 made last time...
I'm not a salesman, what can I say? In other news, I have an opportunity to show something In Miami Art Basel, so I might have to set aside working on Nike to work on a new tiny painting of water... we shall see. |
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