3rd street artist residency days 12 and 13, (4.27/28.12)

Collage fodder

Tape "sketch"

Yesterday (Sat. 4.28.12) was the slowest paced day of this entire project. Lots was done, but reflection and puttering replaced some of the kinetic energy of previous days. Part of it was seeing the end of the project nearing and feeling generally tired the whole day. Honestly, I have been pushing myself a lot these past couple of weeks, and for good reason. There is no slacking when you have time like this to live as a full-time artist, even if only for two weeks. Plus, there were so many projects stuck in my head that I wanted to move forward on that there wasn't time to waste.

Even though my residency is winding down, my motivation for making art is stronger than ever. I see  now that I need to make some changes in my job/studio/home schedule to accommodate more consistent time in the studio. The job schedule is set, but it's the time around it that I need to rearrange somewhat.

I'm going to use today for documentation of the works I completed over the past two weeks and will share images here soon. In my next and last post for the residency, I will sum up the experience as best I can and hopefully provide some insight for those who might want to do something similar for themselves.

3rd street artist residency day 11 (4.26.12)

Tape that gets used and reused... 

3rd street artist residency days 9 and 10 (4.24/25.12)

As I was preparing to leave the apartment to head to the studio on Wednesday, I kept having this feeling that I wanted to go to Blick Art Supplies on Chestnut St. I hadn't been there in a while and I do like to browse art supplies stores once in a while. Blick doesn't have anything that I can't get at Artist and Craftsman, right around the corner from my studio and which keeps me knee-deep in the paper and panels that I use, but the feeling persisted, so after I unloaded my bag at the studio, rode over to Blick.

I guess that going to Blick was one of those things that was supposed to happen. As I was checking my backpack at the counter, the security guard handed me a store coupon for 25% off of purchases for that day only. Yes, I thought, this was supposed to happen...

3rd street artist residency, day 8 (4.23.12)

Masses

One of a new series titled, "Decisions"

Panels ready to go. 

3rd street artist residency, day 7 (4.22.12)

A rainy Sunday in Old City

You see the grey spatter and drips on the pieces above? That's the result of using one hand to move a large piece of foam core with a piece of paper on it with one hand, a brush in the other and knocking over an open container of paint. I don't know how many "F-bombs" I dropped once I saw the damage, but it was one for the record books. 

Ladies and gentlemen, take heed: always, always, always put recently finished works somewhere out of the way of any working area in your studio. Even if you think, "this will be ok here for a moment", that's when things like my experience will happen. At the very least, cover them with something, just in case and...

...always have a stash of chocolate on hand to deal with the aftermath. 

Pallette

3rd Street artist residency, day 6 (4.21.12)

Surfaces

Residue. My sander has become my favorite studio tool in recent months. Not as fun, but necessary are the shop-vac, fan, and masks...

3rd Street artist residency, day 5 (4.20.12)

3rd Street artist residency, day 4 (4.19.12)

Reinvention

The blue painting mentioned in yesterday's post has undergone quite a transformation. It is now a scaled-up version of some recent smaller paintings that I have been working on for the past few months.