Monthly Archives: May 2007

Rookaiju Globs

Thursday, May 17, 2007

I painted the rest of the tones in the snake part of the painting… Next is the octopus character, and then the whole thing gets outlined. It's painted in a mix of iridescent paints (ie. metallic) and interference paints (like the car paint that changes color from different angles). The two main paintings I'm working on right now are my first two experiments with interference pigments…

If you're interested, feel free to click through to zoom in (but remember that this isn't lined yet so it'll look very different and much “sharper” when it's completed). This is a mix of acrylics, tempera and mixed polymers, and gesso mixed with dirt and cigarettes…
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Tikikaiju Coming Up?

Thursday, May 17, 2007

I made a silly simple frame with a few four foot sections of 2″ diameter bamboo (notched like a log house). I am going to suspend/stretch a canvas in the middle of it but I haven't decided what I'm going to paint on it (although I have a few ideas which I'm sure you can guess at because I'm pretty predictable). I think Blair is coming by in the next week or two and we're going to have a frame making party or something because we both have so much stuff that needs frames.

That said, I can't do it until my truck is out of the shop because I have to pick up wood. Other than that I did more software work on the scraper (which you can see is taking stuff from BMEshop and inserting it into the sidebar of ModBlog, and soon will power a new BME frontpage), and will do a little more painting still I hope. If I get my camera back today I'll post a shot or two of whatever I end up doing.

Sorry to Phil and Roo for setting the fire alarm off a couple times today… I'm sure it's very irritating!

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My phone takes poor quality photos

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

I spent most of my workday writing some scraping and parsing software (hello, boring) but I also did a little work on a painting for a friend that I've been trying to get to a state where I'm happy with it for a very long time now. I had a nice time swimming a few underwater lengths of Phils's pool this morning with him and Roo, but I don't know if it made me too tired because I went to the gym afterwards and I don't think I was performing at my best. But it may also have been residual effects from a very painful fall, and/or whatever brain scrambling happened yesterday.

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Rookaiju Work Progressing

Monday, May 14, 2007

I think Phil and I are about to head down and drop the $3,000 deposit (ack!) for the space since we've sold enough tickets to start paying the bills, but first I wanted to post an updated picture of Rookaiju because now you can actually see where I'm going with it (and how it's based on Roo). You can click for a closer view but it's a little blurry.

A bunch of people have asked me for things like prints so I think I might get a PayPal account or something to cover the costs of doing all that and see if people were just flattering me or if there's really an interest in my goofy stuff.

I started working on a kid's book today. The blurred out part of the picture below is the story outline. Most modern kids books are truly terrible and I'm pretty sure I could do a better job… And I hope that it would be something that Nefarious would value when it arrives in the mail at Rachel's place in Los Angeles (not that I even know her address!). The doodle has nothing to do with the book. It was just to amuse myself while Nefarious was eating breakfast.

The funny face on the right was drawn by her — I asked her why he was screaming and she said, “He's upset because his driver's license was taken away — he was sitting backwards and driving with his feet!”

I liked that explanation a lot.

Other than that, I got a robot today and my basement is suddenly not so insanely messy… I had a Roomba in the past and really liked it but Rachel's dog wrecked the old one. I've been working on (very slowly, I admit) getting this place cleaned up and a bit better organized. Ironic given that I'll probably move over the summer.
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Flying Gecko

Sunday, May 13, 2007

I had a really nice day today… For the morning I played with Nefarious and we did some outdoor painting (have to get her prepped for graffiti!) and so on, and then I went out with a friend for lunch while Jon taught Nefarious how to cast (as in fishing) and I went book shopping (mostly stuff on atypical home construction), and watched the Survivor finale. Crazy pain these days — I'm going to try and get in at a pain clinic because if not I'm going to snap and chop off my leg with an axe and I think that would be premature — but other than that I'm feeling pretty good.

Of course, I am muting the pain today with 175 proof Rum, care of Clive.

Anyway, here's some of the painting that Nefarious and I did today.

I'll try and post some pictures of my new painting tomorrow. I really want to try and get enough material put together by the end of the summer to do a gallery show. Part of me thinks I'm ready, and part of me thinks I just want to do it before I die (not that I'm dying, but death is always around the corner you know), but really, it's something I want to do and I think I've finally got the confidence to do…


PS. My friend and trainer Daniel just joined IAM! He's who helped me drop, oh, about sixty pounds of fat in the last half year and put on lots of muscle. He's a really nice guy with a good overall sense for body modification both aesthetically and functionally… So if any of you are looking for a date to ModProm, message him, because he's new here!
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Underpainting on its way

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Oh, I woke up with the worst headache this morning! My knee was killing me last night so I had some opiates and a pitcher of beer. No knee pain for the rest of the evening, but I'm not convinced it was a good trade, haha… Still, five hours of sleep is very nice to get. So this morning I ate (ok, juiced) about fifteen apples with breakfast and that made the headache go away.

I put the next layer of undercoating on “Rookaiju” (I think that's what I'm going to call that painting). When it dries I'll draw the detail on with magic marker or something and paint the actual painting. It's insanely textured — the bumps and ridges are around an inch high so it's a difficult backing to work with.

Well, after a bit of playing princess dress-up I think I'll see if Saira and Michael are awake… I want to build a big playset in the backyard here, but since I'm likely moving soon, I'd like to move it to their place in the summer so I have to talk to them about it… And I have to see how the storyboard for the movie turned out. And then maybe off to a BBQ for supper.

And yes, I have a very messy full house.

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