scarlethawk & JJ collab

I had the amazing pleasure of collaborating with Anna Scarlethawk http://scarlethawk.deviantart.com
I have admired her work for years and so this was a dream come true... no seriously it was. She is an awesome girl!

We worked for a little over 5 hours on this watercolor painting.

Active Transport (Green tape)

First layer of layers is finished!

vessel w/ toxic greens

So I started another layer using oils... The rigid acrylics were stifling me.

The first layer was done in watercolors, 2nd layer acrylics, and now oils...

vessel

I have been working on this the past day or so on my days off trying to turn it into something I am interested in now rather then finishing what I was thinking when I started this painting. I frequently end up slowly layering over older paintings/ideas...

I am trying to make this one really clean looking as well...

Green Tape/Transfer of Potential Life

Decided to focus on this painting today. I have about 6 others I am working on at the same time. I am really trying to get a lot of detail into this one and make it look clean...



Then as you can see I decided to go over the right side with white and make another layer... you can't see however, that the white is made of of little tiny squares...

October show in progress...

So I have been working on this one on my two days off. I started it in NJ last summer and brought it with me to NY and now its in Chicago. It needs many more layers, but here it is now...



I am going to have about 11 original pieces in the Andersonville Arts Weekend
and many prints... so this is one of 11 that I am slowly finishing!
I am thinking about adding a figurative element to it.. what do you all think?


and this is one of the other paintings I am actively working on!

Green Tape

So this experimental painting has been put on hold due to commissions, a full time job, and needy people, but its one of the next paintings I will be attacking so watch out for more progress. In a previous post I put two pictures of its progress and have forgotten about my poor bloggy since. This painting is experimental because the materials and mediums I use are not the usual for me. In this painting I first put down green tape in stripes (thinking I would take them off in the end) and then just started playing around with black india ink while going for an organic feel. I like to layer orderly straight lines vs. organic imagery, and it seems to be a theme that drips loosely throughout my work. Anyway, then I went into it with liquitex fluid gel medium and some powdered pigments that I mixed together to give its atmosphere if you will. Finally i put in more details with white and started selectively taking off the tape. (See previous posts to see how that developed!) (please).

Who knows what I will do next! Not me!