In Progress

So I thought it would be a cool idea to start posting photos of my paintings that are in progress.  So this is my most recent piece in progress.  I would consider it to be a little under half completed.  I haven’t started adding paint yet and I have not yet sprayed it with fixative for the first time either.  I usually spray my pieces about five or so times during my process.  Most recently I added the reddish orange lines to the painting.  They added some depth.

Being in the “zone” is critical to my work.  I have to have an absence of mind present or my paintings turn for the worst and I chop them up.   But when I am in the “zone”, great things happen.  I instinctually create when I am in the “zone”.  All my focus is on the painting. I lose track of time.  Progress is made.  

I don’t just start in the “zone”.  A warm up time is required before I can actually start working well.  If I start working too early I make bad decisions and I then have to spend my time correcting the mistakes.  I can show you parts in all of my drawings where I regretted making a mark, but that is beside the point.  When I am in the “zone” I don’t care about the outcome of my painting because I just know that it will all work out in the end.  The composition takes over and I make marks to satisfy the path the painting is taking.  It is a dance of sorts.

I don’t want to say that my work is fate driven but it feels that way sometimes.  On a good day I just do and discover later.  Like this piece for instance has turned into a woman entangled.  I didn’t see her until a day or so away from the piece but we will see where it goes.  I am personally curious how I will continue with this piece.  Will the woman stay or go? Will she just sink into the composition? We will see…

Hitting the Road... Soon

So, for all you people watching my site, I am going to be hitting the road in the near future.  Probably in a month or so after the holidays, to do nothing but take pictures across the United States.  I will be hitting places like the Rockies, the Grand Canyon, the major parks out west, and if I get through the Rockies in my little automobile I will be shooting photos on the western coast line.  Pretty much anything that peaks my fansy will become victum to my camera and eye.  I intend to post pictures whenever I can find internet access along my journey.  Hitting the road... soon.

Liquid Glass

This is a film I created called Liquid Glass.  It was made for a communication arts class durring the same time that Grasping Photons, a body of photographs, was being created in the Spring of 2009.  I feel that the two concepts played off of each other as they were both created through the exploration of the facets of light and movement during sections of time.  I had a really good time turning these green glass sculptures from Allegheny's campus into flowing water.