I’m back!
Spectrum, acrylic and latex caulk on 11″ x 14″ canvas, January 20, 2013
Spectrum! Because I am not going to call it ‘rainbow’, grunt, snort, wow that spot on the floor is interesting. But enough feigning of manly insecurities, the deal with this painting is not so much the spectrum as that it’s my first experiment with using latex caulk as an art media. It does give it some texture… This picture with the harsher lighting shows better the blobs of caulk that I painted over.
Spectrum, acrylic and latex caulk on 11″ x 14″ canvas, January 20, 2013
One note on spectrums though — it strikes me as fascinating and unfathomable that the only real difference between colors is frequency and wavelength. Same difference between the frequencies we see and those we don’t. Makes you wonder if some kind of neurological manipulation could allow us to further subdivide the visual spectrum and experience more colors. Colors we cannot even imagine now. Or going the other direction… after the singularity I just want gamma-ray eyes, is all I’m sayin’…
On a housekeeping note, I’m changing how I write this blog. You may have noticed, I’m not going to slavishly post twice a week anymore. That led to lame posts between paintings I think, and more importantly it was starting to turn blogging, and worse, painting into work. Not work in the sense of something I get paid to do, but in the sense of house work and yard work — something I’d just rather not do at all. We don’t want that to happen to painting and blogging do we?? No Zorgs, we don’t!!
One of the best pieces of advice my dad gave me was that the best way to ruin a good hobby is to turn it into work. And wouldn’t ya know it, that’s exactly what I was doing. That Cosmic Calendar stuff… it was a really cool idea when I decided to do it, but wow it got to be a drag in the last days of December. The irony of this change is not lost on me — I first decided to stick to a biweekly schedule because I wanted the pressure of needing to finish paintings so I’d have something to blog about twice a week, and get more paintings done that way. But I just don’t think I need that motivator anymore. Quite the opposite, too much blogging was threatening to kill the blog and the paintings. Before last weekend I hadn’t painted in about a month. Just didn’t feel like it. Tried painting anyway, but just wasn’t having any fun. I gave up that day after I broke my palette knife.
Until last weekend when suddenly I had five new paintings going all at once! 🙂 This is the first of those. So now it’s going to be a normal blog and I’ll post when I want to. Hopefully this will lead to better posts when I do.
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