hydro!

my brain's fried from my 3G pieces.  ghostbusters, my biggest headache, is finally, finally done.  and i'm ungodly relieved i was able to finish goonies last night as well.  so i felt the need to paint this after. there's really no thought in it at all (its purpose) except i was thinking about following tim home this morning from his house in the light rain, and he randomly decided to swirve and plow off the on-ramp road towards (but thankfully not into) a bunch of trees and bushes.  followed by cops who happened to be driving by and stopped in the middle of the highway to run to him. even knowing he was okay, i still got really scared and semi-emotional, i don't think i can handle trauma very well. anyway, i painted this in only about 10 minutes, hence the crappy painting job, the cliche-ness, and the fact that you can't even make out what half the objects in the raindrops are.  but it was fun to paint after the oh so carefully planned out paintings i've been spending every waking our on all week.

crow feet

i'm getting obsessed with making a mess of different colored paints. i made this one late night while i was grumpy and irritated. it's only 11"x 14", but now all i can think about is if i had my own real studio, i would do massive paintings like this. i'd be able to throw paint, drip paint, spray paint, and make an even bigger mess without worrying about ruining everything in sight.  i love working big and my limitations are starting to drive me mad.

springing

fun one! i threw paint on top of paint on top of paint until i painted the girl, or whatever, over top.  i painted this in the middle of the night recently. it started off semi-normal, until i started watching zombieland, and although it's not really a zombie at all, i guess it was influenced by them.  i'm liking the quick late-night paintings more than anything else lately, i assume mostly because of the fun, not so much the outcomes.

i'm also excited to find out my one-eyed girl sculpture was accepted into TCNJ's art alumni exhibition. i wasn't sure how they'd feel about the 1EG series so it was a nice surprise. i loooove their new art building so i'm psyched i get to be in their new gallery. i'd kill to be in school again. opens sept 15, with opening reception oct 1 !

sinking

another late night painting.  i made a huuuge mess on this one.  my hands were covered fully in blue, and i found blue streaks on the bathroom floor when i woke up in the morning.  i have a habit of pushing myself to the bathroom to wash up while covered in paint.  it's not the first time i've found paint on the walls, lightswitch, and now the floor from my wheels.. and i must say blue is my least favorite color paint to clean up. oops

shared

here's another quick painting i did in the middle of one night while everyone else was (or should have been) sleeping.  this one was fun just gobbing on loads of paint without thought, and then dealing with defining lines later.

figured this is a "cute" post for today considering the whole anniversary thing.  3 years dating mr. tym, and we don't even fully hate each other yet.  wildwood for the night, so no post tomorrow. i'm going to wheelchair race the tram cars.. and win.

flutterflies

last week's posts were full of quick painting exercises i did a few years ago in college.  i really loved painting them as well as posting them, so i've been making an effort to make some new ones.  i know i've said this a million times and it gets repetitive, but i get bored and lose motivation sometimes when all the work that i do is for either specific shows or commissions.  sometimes i need to stick to a certain theme, and sometimes i have little to no say at all in what i get to produce. i try to spend all my free time on things that need to be done, so lately i've been doing some quick paintings, usually no earlier than 2am, since by then my brain is too fried to even start a new piece that actually needs to involve some kind of thought and effort. and i finish before the night is over.  it's very refreshing to just thoughtlessly and effortlessly throw on chunks of paint, make a serious mess (there are spots of paint all over my desk and wall.. oops.)  and make things that i think are pretty. i'm really stressed out lately for stupid, irrational, and rational reasons, and these exercises are more theraputic than i remembered. it's pretty fantastic. my plan is to keep these up once a week, at the very least

tym !

 

last and 7th painting of daily paintings. (one painting a day, for a week. generally they each had to do with what i saw/experienced that day)

 mr. tim! i want to paint more like this. not of tim.

wobbles

painting #6 of daily paintings. (one painting a day, for a week. generally they each had to do with what i saw/experienced that day)

 i can only assume at this point i was shopping for shoes to wear to a wedding or something.  i painted this because even though i hate high heels and think they are hideous (no offense, girls), i hate even more the fact that i cannot wear them.  i've tried plenty of times, but the way my feet lay on my foot plate on my glorious wheelchair, they will not stay up.  they flop over, they wobble.  and that painting above is basically what i look like in high heels. not very pretty or smooth. despite how ugly i think they are, i want to hear them, but only because i can't. pisses me off.

ziegfeld girl

painting #5 of daily paintings.  (one painting a day, for a week. generally they each had to do with what i saw/experienced that day)

i was forced into a gender class my senior year in college, where i experienced the agony of pretending to read crappy books about call girls, girls in gangs, and whatever other type of boring "girl" books that my dumb feminist professor was in love with. i'm not hating on gender feminist stuff, but i couldn't handle the wretched writing of these wretched writers. however! during this week of spring break i was supposed to read some book about ziegfeld girls, that couldn't keep my attention for more than 3 seconds, so i painted this instead. and i loves it.

face to face

painting #4 of daily paintings. (one painting a day, for a week. generally they each had to do with what i saw/experienced that day)

people have seen a bunch of different things in this, but it is just a close up of my pup's nose.

wind storm

painting #3 from daily exercise. (one painting a day, for a week. generally they each had to do with what i saw/experienced that day) 

this day was incredibly windy so i did a painting based on that.

sting

painting #2 from the daily exercise. one painting a day, for a week, in college 2007. generally they each had to do with what i saw/experienced that day.

i'm working on a million different projects right now so for now i'll just keep posting these

protection !

i was sick all weekend and have nothing worthwhile to show at the moment, so here's a painting i did in college as part of a daily exercise over one spring break, where i did a painting a day for a week.  i spent way too much time on each one of them but i can't handle ones that take no time.  if makes any sense..

perhaps i'll post the rest of the 2007 daily paintings the next week or two.