Working with plaster, paint, spatulas, clay tools, fabrics. I didn't have an idea of what I wanted to do or how to do it. Fun stuff, like being a kid, but it wore me out, too. The others in the workshop were painters who wanted to learn to texture, so the colors and shapes in their works were wonderful. And I did this. I embedded the ferns to suggest some pagan forces, but the whole thing turned out looking like a Christmas card made by a sixth grader. I couldn't fit the whole piece on the scanner, so you are missing the lower part where the cut jewels will go.
It is awful but I learned some new things. One is that I must learn more about mixing color. The other things I did won't fit on the scanner, so you can't see how muddy I made things. In this one, I limited my colors to two. Not muddy, just plain. But just wait and see what happens when I combine this with encaustic. At least I have hope.
I see stuff like this hung in the local funky coffee shop. Hippies taste in art was always horrible. The new bohemians aren't much better.
Choke me in the shallow waters
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--- What I am, Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians
Awfulness indeed. The piece appears tenuous --contained and so symmetrical. However, good on you to share it and better to DO IT. Makes me want to texturize and scrape instead of work today. I have a series of mixed media I've been working on for ... I dunno 5 years? It is based on a poem by Wallace Berman that goes:
Art is Love is God
it is very Bad. No not the poem my triptych. However I continue to work on it when words don't seem to say what I need them to say. I go down to the workshop and smear and tear and throw things into the thickness of gloop which somehow, in the confines of privacy, makes me feel a whole lot better. And then scrap away and use various oddities to press imprints into the semi-dry gloop which also relieves some itch (temporarily).
Hey. I caught Julian Schnable on 60 minutes last night -- what an arrogant dick. I think a humble approach to making art makes the creation more beautiful but really... in the words of one of my favorite conversationalist about artistic endeavours, WTFDIK.
well. i just thought of Picasso and how watching him paint is like watching his eyes and brush fuck the canvas (seen movies).
ReplyDeleteso maybe it is a humbleness about where it comes from --
eh. i dunno. i'm babbling and lost thinking about everything else except what i should be doing now.
i'm at least very good at that. :)
I've done encaustic before and I think it's fascinating but definitely not my medium! Your piece is quirky in a primitive sort of way! :)
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I think that you definietly have the proper attitude. The childlike approach; and if it is not what you wanted it to be, you are open about the shortcomings.
ReplyDeleteI think that you will soon find your stride!