Two more blurry photos of old paintings dragged out of the basement in Asheville. Both are probably about a decade old. The first one is, I dunno, a lumberjack or something, painted in oils on a piece of scrap board. The black is permanent marker….I remember hating the thing at the time, and I’m pretty sure I still don’t like it. It’s an interesting failure though. (I think some painted in blacks would have helped it.)
The second one was painted in literally an hour before an art show at St. Anthony Hall in an attempt to fill wall space. (Yeah, it’s blurry.)
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All I’ve got is a digital camera at the moment, so the focus on this isn’t too great, but here’s a goblyn Santa for your trouble. (I did some Photoshopping burning & lightening….when I get access to a scanner, I’ll see if I can rescan this so it doesn’t look like your monitor is looking at it with its eyes crossed.)
*I’m reading _Fairies and Fairy Stories : A History_ by Diane Purkiss at the moment, mining for story ideas.
This was painted when I was in college. It’s HUGE. Seven feet tall? Eight? It’s stored in my parents’ basement at the moment….I’ve spent the last couple of days dragging the things out, dusting them off, and taking pictures to preserve them before a rabid doormouse eats a hole through them or the creek at the bottom of my folks’ hill rises 120 feet during the night and washes them out the garage door.
I don’t really I have any belief in magic, but I thought it’d be interesting to create an oil painting that, if magic DID exist, would be about as close as you could literally get to creating a cursed gate to Faerie. The paints were blessed by Wiccan witches, as were the brushes and the piece of wood. The text is various Faerie summoning spells recorded in the Vatican’s archives, and the runes have some sort of similar use as well.
Unfortunately, no interdimensional rifts ever resulted that I can remember, though I do remember the painting tending to deeply disturb anyone who was tripping. Then again, so does meatloaf.
For some reason, I became fascinated with painting vases while I was in college. There’s a fair number of paintings that have one in them.
Actually, come to think of it, I know exactly why. Professor Zaborowski(sp) took me once to see one of his friend’s (visiting professor’s?) studios…..when I walked in the door, I was seeing the fellow’s painting at a somewhat extreme angle….it was all black. The two of them asked me what I thought and I made one of those answers that are of the sort, “Uhhh….it’s great……I, uh, like what you did with the, ummmm…..”
Zaborowski then told me to walk away from the door….I did, and suddenly the painting shifted into something else entirely. It was a gigantic vase, emblazoned with an incredibly intricate mathematical pattern, painted in hundreds of shades of black. It honestly might be the most astonishing painting I’ve ever seen in person. After that, vases started creeping into everything I did.
This is actually the last oil painting I’ve done…it’s about two years old. When I get the studio finished in a few days, I’m going to attempt to finish it. (I also have four blank canvases and four blank easels waiting on them…..I like to work on multiple things at once. Waiting for oil paint to dry (especially when you work in glazes) will drive you insane.)
