Herro....
Been working on my drawings more recently than my paintings. I want to somehow fuse the two styles and see how it works out. My drawing somewhat resembles landscape as well. I think that's interesting being that it was unintentional- a lot more of our artistic impulses could be subconscious. Anyway, I think it's kind of Mehretu-esque.
Oh, and this is a painting I just started working on. Boats- SURPRISE! Gonna continue with this guy and start on a new painting simultaneously.
I figured I'd read an article concerning Catherine Murphy since she's a hit at Mason Gross nowadays. I find her to be EXTREMELY talented. I used to only draw photo-realistically so I can truly appreciate her renderings. In the article, "Art Show: Catherine Murphy" by Peter Terzian, she speaks about her super realized approach to art. Here's the link :
I found this excerpt particularly intriguing- "people ask, aren't noses hard? I hardly know I'm painting a nose. If the stupid thing will stay still, noses are apples are floors are whatever. The more precise I get, the more abstract the painting or drawing is." This quote reminds me of something my mother always says to me (something her father used to say to her)- paint what you see, not what you know. Sometimes paintings and drawings can become unsuccessful if an artist begins to overwork something. With me, I sometimes become stuck if something doesn't look like what the actual object is. This year, I'm trying to become more expressive in my work in attempts to avoid nitpicking. With Catherine Murphy, however, her ability to paint and draw so realistically has become an abstraction in itself. She overlooks the actual landscape, body part or image and focuses on the smaller components as individual pieces. The individual parts become abstractions on their own, and when completed, they form a highly photorealistic work of art. Depending on how you look at it, abstraction is EVERYWHERE, even when looking at photorealism.
GOALS FOR THIS WEEK
Continue on with painting. Re-gesso the painting I don't like and put that modeling medium stuff on it to create more texture. I think working on a more textured surface will allow me to paint more freely. I think it's a psychological thangg. More goals will surface when I man up and start on a larger painting.
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