5.16.2011
11.09.2010
New Painting! "Fluid Dynamic II"
Here is the second of the ink and acrylic wet media paintings, finished, dried, and on the wall at the studio, enjoyed very positive feedback at First Friday, and one interested (as yet uncommited) art collector! I have heard that this painting resembles many things, and have begun to record the ideas I get from visitors to the studio. Here are some of my favorites so far:1. A duck with a suction cup stuck to its beak
2. An aadvark
3. A fat cat with a very small head
4. Some kind of black bird
5. A butterfly
6. "It's like a dream that I don't remember, but I know I was there"
OK, I liked #6 the best. It is interesting to me the way we all think differently. I do not see these things in my work, ever. I see lines, shapes, and colors. Period. My brain must work differently. I'm interested in continuing to collect the things people see and sharing them. Perhaps I will learn a little about how we see and how we make sense of the world.
10.22.2010
Completed Ink Painting #1, ready to go, at McGuffey Art Center
Slept on it, and now this one is finally dry! Love that the texture of the cotton shows through in places, and having trouble decided to hang this piece vertically or horizontally. Moving time, water, tide, self. Sometimes it works, sometimes it don't!
10.11.2010
New Ink and Acrylic on Cotton, Waiting and waiting...
Happy day at McGuffey to find two large cradled boards to mount a new ink painting! Hurray for the free corner! Thanks to the universe and thanks to Helen Frankenthaler, from whom all blessings flow...get it? Flow?!?!?? It's funny! Really, it is! OK, that's a cheeeeesyyyyy joke, Frankenthaler forgive me. She was the abstract expressionist who began pouring paint onto unprimed canvas on the floor, so that it stained the canvas, so that it flowed, like time, like a river. Like the universe. Hmmm...So I started with these boards, stretched unprimed cotton over them, and underpainted a layer of creamy butter yellow and Japanese Sumi-e ink, then two pours, 36 hours apart, and still waiting for the second to dry. But...epiphany! Epiphany! These are NOT just paintings I am making. Not at all. This is time, and this is magic and beautiful, in the flow of NOW, each instant of water and color and ink moving and becoming. Each of these moments is part of the art of it, not just the completed painting that hangs on the wall, but the act of making, the act of observing this interaction of water and air and color and time. I have not figured it all out, but I feeeeel it swirling around in my head. Documenting the pours and the flow needs to be shared, an integral part of the work that will hang on the wall of some very very lucky art lover.
Hmmm...
9.28.2010
Oh, happy accident! To run out of black sumi-e ink one day and reach out for more color...waiting for days and days for the inks on vinyl to dry and at last, of course, they did. Very happy with these and hoping to come up with a good idea to frame them. The vinyl sheets are approximately 11x14. They are all for sale, and should be up for display at McGuffey in my studio by First Friday! If I keep this up, I may even have enough work for an actual show! Productive, productive! No social life and no sleep makes Nina's studio time pay off. Thank you, OCD.
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