Countdown to Spawn

I've beveled the edges and attached the permanent mounting frames on the back. HUGE relief, as I spent all of last year NOT dealing with those two things, just planning on figuring something out later. I was able to split 2" x 4"s at a 30 degree angle to make a french cleat for hanging. This from a 15+ year old $120 table saw, and it cut easily.

After I do a couple small client jobs, I will make back mounts for the small pieces, and then will still have a couple weeks to paint/finish how ever many of them I can. These were originally a secondary consideration to the larger pieces, but now I'd like to have a slew of them. I almost want to do an installation now, and jump the painted surface with 3-d augmentation for the show.

That almost always dilutes the tension and concentrated energy of the paintings though.

I also need to write a statement and also think of titles. I'm going to try to drop the numbers and letters and use actual, or pretend, words.

A Teaser

I'm trying to restrain myself from posting recent images of work from my upcoming solo show ("Spawn", Harrison Center in Indy). Here's some shots of current "prep" underway. I must knock off the 1/2" edges from these finished pieces. I like the edges on the smaller ones; they read as a 1970s craft plaque. On these larger pieces it does not work at all.

So I'm sawdust protecting with plastic and then palm sandering with 40 grit. I'm angling the back off, all surfboard-like. Well, semi-surfboard-like, which still takes 1-2 hours per panel, and fills my dual purpose kitchen-woodshop with sawdust...

This has to be the worst dual-purposed room use ever, unless one is low on dietary roughage I suppose.

Brenda Goodman

Burial, 52" x 56", Oil on wood 2010

One of my favorite artists has just posted new work on her new blog! Brenda Goodman Art and Images.

This should be the boring part

But it's not. It's so fun to cut and build.

Missing Time Mondays

Speaking of Rocks...

With help from a rigged gravel sled, and my truck, I moved and spread 2 tons of gravel by noon today. Because of tree limbs, they had to dump most of it in one spot. I saved $30 by changing my order from 3 to 2 tons. I now have exactly 2/3 of what I need to keep my drive from being a mud pit. Doh!

Barbie's Pantheon?

12" x 8.5"

This thing is so light and fairey-like, which is odd since I was pretty irritated while painting it. Just general winter blahs. This makes me want to do entire series of creatures/phenomena from invented belief systems, developed for various fictitious entities. This would be some deity in a Barbie Pantheon.

The central area is metallic silver, so it's quite different in person.