week 12 progress

Here's one new painting (though I haven't gotten to the paint, all found papers so far). The other is still white from gel medium so I'll edit this post, talk more about it, and post the other in the morning.

week 11 crit

Bao said: 

It is a really good composition for this picture. I really like the general color tone and also the effect of the brushstrokes and the shape and the form you did. Looks consistent and unity. Also it’s really strong and shows emotional feeling. I mark here like the letter A 

this dark blue shape, I think the edge little bit too sharp . Of course you can go little bit further developing this artwork. So I much more prefer you make it looser little bit more for the edge. Of course this edge you suggest the negative and positive form suggestion for the image of this person here. But if you make some little bit looser little bit more I think it would be much more consistence and unity for the whole-over the composition. Because for the bottom of the composition I think this is really nice overlap and transparency and also really nice brushstrokes over each other. So therefore, the letter A, that part, if you make it little bit more consent with the other looser effect I think this would be better. 

For this picture I mark here, like the letter A 

these areas that belong to the edge of that brown color, if you make the other layers of the color overlap transparence and make it looser a little bit more for that one it would be much better. Because right now the top of the composition already have some pretty strong shape there and so bottom here if you make looser more then the top of the image will be stronger, and also keep the rhythm of the composition in the contrast. And also right now on the bottom of the right side on that shape and the line and the shape I think that is really successful it’s really sensitive to use the line and shape. It is a really good relationship between each other. So therefore that part is already good enough for these areas. So therefore if you take the letter A that part looser little bit more, and then much more appreciating on the bottom of the right side that shape. So and then if you make it looser for letter A then so the bottom also in reflection with the top of the composition. So you make the direction of the eyes up and down. So if you go that way I think this would be much better for the composition.

week 11 progress

Ok so where I am is winding this project down. I think after this week I'm  going to put this work on thhe back burner until after my final review because I have to send in my book at the end of the week so i can't make any changes to it so it will frustrate me if i make some kind of breakthrough with something without being able to edit when I've sent off. So next week I'll start onto something new, probably small. maybe similar but maybe more figurative.

So with writing my thesis, I've been going back through all the work i did since midpoint. And i was reminded of the earliest paintings of this series (which were buried and I dug them out to reshoot in the same light as all the newer ones. And there was one component that I really missed and that was the thick paint with figures scratched in to reveal under layers. I've gotten so into the additive lately and different opacities and how they work woven in and out of each other that I got distracted from the subtractive methods. In the meantime I've gotten a lot better at looking and drawing, but i also didn't want it to look to controlled as that is against the spirit of the whole thing. I used a professional model, Anya Lynn Gart. She came to my studio. She wants to get naked and do some crazy poses for me so maybe that will be the next series. But it didn't belong here.

Without further adieu.

 

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48"x48". acrylic, papers, candle smoke, and charcoal on board. 2011.

This one is almost done. The pink circle in the corner of the face detailneed another layer but aside from that I think this thing is done?

I also just realized last week i posted an old version of #10 so here's the current and i think close to finished version. 

 

40"x40" papers and acrylic on board. 2011.

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I'm having some photography issues as I'm working with the camera i bought when mine broke to use while mine's in the shop. The two are completely different in how they look, white balance temp. It's maddening! I think this new cheepo is going to be my going out camera because it seems like it would work for snaphots but not anything where the subtle nuances of color matter....

week 11 check in. starting the book, from the beginning

After midpoint review I was neck deep in Abst 'n' Int.  (gotta laugh about that). I did one big one that was figurative and derivative of the figure piece in my midpoint presentation. But the rest came out of the other piece. Once I started drawing for Mark, it started become to something pure to me and portable, somthing i didnt have to physically prepare for. I bought a bunch of markers because I fell in love with them at the begining of the semester and now I'd rather just use a simple ballpoint pen on paper. I like drawing to be it's own no big deal sort of one track thing, one moment.

Tomorrow I will get a model to paint from to bring all the themes back around.
good night

week 10 crit

Bao said:

For the creating abstract painting the most difficult period is the almost finished artwork. How to make the artwork much more stronger, much more sensitive, to show your feeling and your concept, and also suggest your identity, that is really struggling. So right now maybe you stay on this stage. So I hope you are thinking about that And then so don’t hurry, and step-by-step work on your artwork and try to make you artwork stronger and show your own voice and unique language. 

 I said:

In your most recent crit were you saying that I just need to be patient, that the finished versions will come when they are ready, just keep painting and it will come to me?

Bao said (he actually typed this, the rest of his crits are transcriptions of his audio critiques):

Base on your progress of the creation, I can saw you on the right direction and you have very good sense to find out some elements to build up your won language...  I would like you feel free trying using different ways to work on your won projects in step by step, may be some times have some accident and mistakes during the progress, but we always inspired by these.... So far, it is right time to final work for the final projects, I hope that you will try your the best working on...

week 10 progress

I guess I'll let you party people peep my catalog... That's been my main project this week which included getting a few paintings into good enough shape to include here, plus all the photography (and these puppies aren't exactly easy to menuver in my studio...). They may not all win in the long run but I've got a project due in my professional practices class and I think this book'll be my mama's Christmas gift... She'll love it.
Professional practices doesn't require any new work it's all about the professional media surrounding your current body of work. So the work I'm doing in here is concluding my post-midpoint work... (though a few of my images came from earlier because they fit.)

So I'm turing in for this my new painting in this class (in backward-ish order).

11. I busted out, let's call it oh-levin, because that seems to be a theme. It's not truly eleven because I only made like 3 marks on it since 2010. But, it needed it. It need the scabs pinned down. I took it on the lawn and the only things it wanted was a few very direct marks. So I brought it back in before i did anything.

10. This most people don't recall as these guys. Process and product never lined up for me here. There was always something both forced and vacant so I decided to just ab-ex it up. Now at least all the heavy stuff is buriend and it's prettier on the surface which makes it a step furter on it's original train, which is a tangent for this coming week. My final review book needs to be send out in 9 days (what Kevin jabbed at) and I will be willing to make all those connections then, but now is a different hour. Now you get what I've got...so far...

7. Bao, I'm still thinking about your crits. I haven't chosen to disregard them, I just haven't quite figured out how to apply them and have been building up to them. It's not entirely bothersome as is, but I'm not beyond changing it. This is the most insane painting I've ever shot. This image was taken at 2 pm in my studio with no lights. It's is the most maddeningly glossy and bumpy in some places and that is VERY HARD TO SHOOT!

3. Kev, I thought more about your duet thing and more about the figure thing. I also thought about strapping down the red. So, with one brown line and a litle fill I attempted to do all that... working? See, I used a medium value dull warm, which recedes considerably to the bright medium-dark red, but it goes physically in front so it plays into my intellectual, visual game. I'm guessing this image'll be the first to go after I graduate.

side note: Kevin, I wish you would ditch the gesso. My new paintings (2012) will be sexier than yours because all your new paintings start at white and all my good ones start with the ones that don't ultimately make this cut. If you used denser pigment loads I think this would be easier for you both accept and pull off. Easy on the transparent, killer, I've only been saying this for years. You do things I could never do with boldness and patience and intuition, but, there are still things i told you on day one that I haven't lured you into... 6 weeks, then you'll have to pay me, since I'll be a master and all.... ;)

week 9 crit

Bao said:

Hi, you did a really good process for whole of them. I really like the color tone and value you did right now, especially like the last one. I really like the variety, the lines/shape, and connect together create a really  nteresting dramatic effect, You can go your direction and continue to work on.

Kevin said:

liking them all. The new piece is looking great!

Kirah said:

Looking great! Especially like 9_8. Fabulous composition and textures.

The third one feels off...palette isn't working for me. Maybe too close to primaries and they are all competing? I also see giant lips - ha!

I said:

Re: third one feels off, just a layer... will change!

Kevin said:

Looking forward to seeing this new piece updated. I like everything about it. the thin scribble is a really interesting touch to all the thicker painting. The smoked parts are awesome!

Abril said:

Visually strong, that's rarely an issue with your work, though.  That (strong composition) seems to come by naturally for you (I don't see you work, only your work, so guessing).

week 9 progress

 

56"x48". acrylic, fabric, papers, oil sticks on board.

I haven't done the cool or unifying layers yet because I've been building up the clear over the stripe. Next I'll do white stripes over the clear, then I'll unify. 

56"x48". acrylic, papers, found vinyl, staples, oil-based etching inks, oil pastels, soft pastels, oils sticks on board.

 48"x48". acrylic, paper, candle smoke, charcoal on board.

#7 no longer exists. It just wasn't part of this series, so I cut it up and glued it on here and now I totally dig the effect!

week 8 crit

Bao said: [For the first two,] it is a really good developing for this picture. Right now I really like the energy movement for whole over the composition. I mark here like the letter a in these areas if you have a chance try to mix little bit cooler color in that areas. And I think maybe it makes this warm color more sensitive. Of course you can think about the other places. I just give you some idea around these positions for the cool color. You can make your own decision. Add some little bit more cool colors and I think maybe the composition much more sensitive and much more transparent for the warm color.

It is a good foundation and a lot of potentials to developing this artwork. I mark here the letter A in this areas, this shape, if you make the value and color darker little bit more I think this would be much better for the composition. Because for the top of the left side some are really strong, the horizontal lines there. If you have some little bit darker color transition to the whole over composition I think this would be much better to help consistency and unity for whole over the composition.

I really like the transparency and color tone for the whole over composition. I mark a letter a in these areas if you make that areas a little bit grayed down, calmed down, and darker a little bit value more it will be much better for the whole over composition

Kevin said:

Love where you are taking #8. YES!

and i can tell I'm going to like #10 a lot.

Watching 7 closely. I can see the smoke billowing over your work area. I can tell you are thinking heavily about it.

These are looking great.

Nova said:

Hi Emily,

Very lovely work. I agree with Kevin...#8 & 10 are working out very well. Great compositions and color palette. Very expressive work.

week 8 progress

 

56"x48" acrylic, fabric, papers on board

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 56"x48". acrylic, papers, found vinyl, oil-based etching inks on board.

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 48"x48". acrylic on board.

40"x40". acrylic and papers on board.