2012/365 - Day 88

outlining the bull guy

This is canvas #7. I am not sure that I will finish canvas #7 and canvas #8 in time to photograph them and send in an email submission for the deadline (on Friday) for an upcoming local juried show. I hope I make it -- but even if I don't, I am really really enjoying these two collages. I really love the characters. Since I am working towards possibly entering these for a show, this post will be the last one until I find out what happens.



So I outlined the bull guy in Neutral Gray so that it doesn't show up too much in the finished collage, but so I can see it enough to work on the image.

















Here is the top of his head...two little horns, that is an ear (dark blue) to the right and an eyebrow on the lower left area of his forehead.











Here is a detail of his right eye (well, "right" as in looking at the canvas).












Here is his sweet little muzzle with nostrils.











And here is the overall view.

I think I want to make his jacket pretty decorative -- like a quasi-military coat with epaulets. He isn't in the military, it is just fashion...or something.













I think I will name my bull guy Brick...as a nod to the person who took the photo I am using as reference.

I hope I finish these in time for the deadline. Then I can start the fretting it/sweating it process waiting to see if my stuff gets accepted.

2012/365 - Day 83

a new guy surfaces this morning


Just when I was thinking that the llama/giraffe guy was my only choice (yesterday) this guy pops up.

I can still see the llama/giraffe guy, but the young bovine-ish creature is trying to make a case for himself. I can see lots of possibilities with him.

2012/365 - Day 81 -- part two

adding more paper to canvas #7 and canvas #8 -- (and a sneak peek)


I decided that both pieces needed more paper. I was finding a few characters in each canvas, but they were all small sized guys. I need a larger "star".




Here are the papers I tore up (and some extra) for use on canvas #7.



















How #7 is looking as it is drying on the wall in the drying spot.

It is kind of amazing to me how much different these look when the matte medium dries the layers together.












Canvas #8 with its new paper bits.

I think I was really disliking the brown paint in the background.










Canvas #8 is also drying on the wall.










Oh -- and here is one last sneak peek at one of the pieces I submitted today. I tightened up a couple of outline lines and painted in the teefers and tongue.

I LOVE this guy -- he is NFS.

2012/365 - Day 81

beginning again

I submitted three pieces (two collages and one plaster cloth guy) for consideration to a local juried show today. I am very pleased to have finished early this time -- for the first time -- not exactly on the deadline day. Now it is time to start on two other canvases that are already in progress/process to see if I like them enough to submit to another upcoming juried show.

Both of these two canvases came from the Salvation Army store. They are both rubber stamped on the backs with "Artistic Interiors, Inc." and a certification number, attesting that they are original oil paintings. They are dated 1977. They were framed in a similar fashion but with different colors.





This is canvas #7, "before".













This is after I added papers to the painting and while it was very wet with matte medium.

















This is how it looks today...ready to be "read".

I have been reading it/looking at it for a while and can't see anything yet. I may need to add more random paper shapes.












This is canvas #8, "before".



















This is its very wet stage.












After reading this one for a bit, I think I may be seeing something.




If I get these done before the deadline date and I like how they turn out I will submit them for consideration. If not -- that will be okay, too...because I wasn't even aware of the upcoming show until this morning.


I wonder what is going to emerge from these layers?

a repurposed canvas(es) inventory

an inventory list of the repurposed canvases

For my own sake/memory/records -- (as well as for a couple of people who are also having trouble keeping track of which started out as what) -- I am making this visual list of the canvases I am reusing for collage.


canvas #1 -- completed

"He Says He Knows Two Ghosts"

16" x 20"
mixed media over retired vision board




canvas #2 -- in progress

untitled/emerging creatures


16" x 20"
mixed media over old acrylic & mixed media painting






canvas #3 -- in progress

current title "R. Rebel" (aka smilin' dancin' mask-wearin' dog guy)

24" x 30"
mixed media over retired vision board





canvas #4 -- in progress

untitled/fox guy

16" x 20"
mixed media over purchased/old landscape (acrylic ?)






canvas #5 -- in progress

untitled

24" x 30"
mixed media over gifted old acrylic painting




canvas #6 -- in progress

untitled

30" x 40"
mixed media over purchased/Salvation Army acrylic painting




canvas #7 -- in progress

untitled

16" x 20"
mixed media over purchased/Salvation Army oil painting




canvas #8 -- in progress

untitled

16" x 20"
mixed media over purchased/Salvation Army oil painting (1977 on back)





And...

I have one watercolor on watercolor paper/affixed to mat board that I purchased for this purpose. I will finish this piece. I actually bought three of these at the same time, but decided not to pursue this project with the other two due to the buckling of the watercolor paper and mat board when I apply the matte medium to it.


This is a close up of a buckled area.