"Your post post-modern blank stare of conceptual indifference is no match for my Art-fu!"
Just a little goofing before getting down to business. Today was one of those days where I really needed to get a laugh to excorcise some personal anxiety and getting this photo down and coming up with that caption did the trick. That, along with some Tool, made things go along pretty well.
Tool-"Stinkfist"
Tool-"AEnema"
Tool-"Sober"
Last week and into the weekend, I stretched my first canvas in over a year. Most of my recent work has been on wood panels. However, the last thing I want to have to deal with is a five-foot square panel, so returning to canvas was a must. I wasn't looking forward to dealing with keeping the corners square while stretching it, but things went much better than I imagined. I hope that I'm not jinxing myself, but this was one of the easiest stretching jobs I've had at this size.
My Art-fu is winning, so far...at least I think it is....sometimes you can never tell. This is very much in an in-progress state with many more changes to come.
4 comments:
I love the video for "Sober"! And good on you for braving stretching your own ginormous canvas. I cringe just thinking about it!
Curious---Did you use cotton duck or linen at that size? I'm thinking of switching over to linen, but the prices make me feel like weeping.
Anyway, keep up the art-fu.
Hey Kesha,
I had major anxiety about stretching this one, but since i do have a system for dealing with canvaes of this size, things went much smoother than I imagined.
I use cotton duck on all of my canvases. It would be nice to move to linen, but my wallet has seizures just from me even thinking about the word itself.
Canvas stretching...I grew to dread it over the years, along w/ gessoing and sanding. I'm starting encaustics on panel soon, so no more canvases for a while.
I'm a big fan of Tool- have most of their CDs but 10,000 Days is my favorite. When working, I listen to them a lot, too.
Ha, good one! "Your post post-modern blank stare of conceptual indifference is no match for my Art-fu!"
I don't tolerate a blank canvas for very long and sometimes "attack" it without a plan just to break the tension. I daresay I do so without the flair and poetry you show in your photo and caption!
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