tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70105353888410284052024-03-05T15:54:20.780-06:00Lumi 9 NewsLumi 9http://www.blogger.com/profile/10532825617329534466noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010535388841028405.post-27772647490198334202012-04-10T18:37:00.000-05:002012-04-10T18:37:21.288-05:00Blog Moved!<span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Thank You!</span>Lumi 9http://www.blogger.com/profile/10532825617329534466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010535388841028405.post-8849424331714663412011-07-17T16:08:00.000-05:002011-07-17T16:08:12.941-05:00Château de la Hulpe & the Fondation Folon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">On the 10th we had a friend who lives in Brussels suggest that we visit the <a href="http://chateaudelahulpe.wallonie.be/apps/spip/">Château de la Hulpe</a> where the<a href="http://www.fondationfolon.be/"> Fondation Folon</a> existed. This is something that was not in the guidebook we had, so we were excited about the tip.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Jean-Michel Folon was a watercolorist, sculptor, engraver, and illustrator. I had never heard of him, so it was a treat to see how well done the museum set up in the farm of the castle of La Hulpe (see the castle below). The day was perfect, so we had a great time to wonder the grounds of the château, which was full of lush fields, gardens, forest, while dotted by sculptures by Folon (if you're partial to plein air painting - GO, GO, GO). Unfortunately, you can't take any photos inside of the museum (I only snapped a few outside, like the fountain seen below).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Lumi 9http://www.blogger.com/profile/10532825617329534466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010535388841028405.post-56810683287532465902011-07-14T04:47:00.001-05:002011-07-14T04:49:01.467-05:00Go to Ghent<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">On the 8th we took a train west to Ghent, a beautiful, medieval town with old churches, art, and architecture. It's biggest drawing power is St. Bavo, seen below, where it houses the Ghent Altarpiece, or the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb. This is the sole reason why we took the trip because I was taken aback by <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Annunciation_-_Jan_van_Eyck_-_1434_-_NG_Wash_DC.jpg">The Annunciation</a> when I visited Washington D.C. and I felt it was important to see this masterwork.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoGsHHbmKamAGw20LRci-SLSqhz2-jjLWbQxNy41fKx04Ac3UOHS9__wrg1ATaGkoS90h2AJeDew4BHHdQk42Qd4DPRFgPWJsWpKZ9oIYANQRhEHD_OWDkEku0EIkKMDsZIyGCPAXC10E/s400/PC130088_72dpi.jpg" width="300" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">It didn't disappoint. We were so glad we went, because this polyptic (the one above was a replica held within the church for tourists who didn't want to pay the 4 € to see the original) was gorgeous and ripe for devouring, despite having been completed in 1432 by Jan and Hubert van Eyck.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Castle Gravensteen (8€ a person) was worth seeing for "torture rooms", dungeons, collections of ancient weaponry and the view of the entire city of Ghent when the tour reached the top of the walls. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>The Museum of Fine Arts was the final attraction of the day. Although the collection was not the most exciting I had ever seen, it did provide some good hunting grounds for artists of second tier value that you would otherwise not get to see. The medieval section was very good. And I thought there were some good finds in the expressionist to modernist rooms (though my photos might not be the best representatives - not a fan of my cheap 8 megapixel Olympus FE-310). The main attractions at this museum are the two Heironymus Bosch works <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hieronymus_Bosch_055.jpg">Christ Carrying the Cross</a> and St. Jerome at Prayer, which were wonderful. I'm downplaying how excited I was to see these works (top: always, always take more than one photo of works, such as these).<br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyXju0IbyeebjRepxNDcJepIzv_RY16UPnnZkCI8mhywsJKrSwXvN5nQWRve0DHrnTSamZAkmBEzFZEwLESmKRnDPwHpknG2-MwzYPidZsbhOs66wZglKroS7iCaQW81YxlJ2eJzrgrig/s400/PC130379_72dpi.jpg" width="300" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">De val der heiligen</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1933</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">by Frits Van Den Berghe</span></div>Lumi 9http://www.blogger.com/profile/10532825617329534466noreply@blogger.com0Ghent, Belgium51.05665 3.720000000000027350.95104 3.5852550000000272 51.162259999999996 3.8547450000000274tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010535388841028405.post-38284512463364068482011-07-12T09:28:00.023-05:002011-07-12T09:57:21.269-05:00Current Artwork (# 522, 528)<div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0OJ9xQ027vi-s_7HUu_3qUu1yEp6u13qCf_919J5Hs3ruuicrqwPrsUZL0v1YXzEE1q6cnBDP-ywFQBNxYZnJmlUG6041zAGfE2Ye3vhUPEYDYQx6_LGCtcPIH_wAauj6yNMoUB-huFk/s400/PC060013_72dpi.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">I am definitely still working while here in Belgium. In our unusually large apartment (for Europe), we have a patio with a quiet, bubbling koi pond that's very peaceful to work beside and I try to take advantage of it whenever I can. I prepared myself for the trip by making sure that whatever art supplies I brought could fit along with my other necessaries in my travel backpack. This meant that all of my surfaces had to be quite small. This was a major reason why after the "The Other Folk" show, in May, I immediately began working on smaller Ampersand surfaces, because I knew this trip was coming up [see <a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_516.html">Untitled (516)</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150302323013974&set=a.283051183973.182352.283037508973&type=1&theater">Untitled (520)</a>, & <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150303132788974&set=a.283051183973.182352.283037508973&type=1&theater">Untitled (519)</a>].</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">As in #s <a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_516.html">516</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150302323013974&set=a.283051183973.182352.283037508973&type=1&theater">520</a>, and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150303132788974&set=a.283051183973.182352.283037508973&type=1&theater">519</a>, the reference photos I was and am now using have all come from the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum in Alabama (if you're paying attention, you'll note how mentioning this small fact is in slight contradiction of values discussed earlier on <a href="http://lumi9news.blogspot.com/2011/06/untitled-520.html">June 25th</a>). The reason for this is a very classical one: the effect of creating my earlier work was not totally about replicating what I saw in my mind, per se, so using a reference from life (like my photos from the museum) fills in so many details that takes sooo much time to draw - more like tear - from my mind. The earlier process was making my work a bit unwieldy to instill a believable sense of pneuma, or breath of life, without, well.... life. So the dedication to a type of non-objectivity wasn't making my job easier. I found that it was keeping me from fulfilling larger and more immediate goals (like creating lots of work to help my learning curve). I knew the simple addition of using references could help speed up my creativity if I could find a similar type of relief-like spacing in the image that is rampant in a lot of my earlier pieces (like <a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_498.html">#498</a>, or <a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_Samhain.html">Samhain</a>). It would also breed a vein of familiarity (technically, I'm supposed to say I'm a "classically trained" artist, so this is something I'm much more used to) without interfering with my hopes of discovering "the new" in my process(es).<br />
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But below you can see the two new pieces that I've taken to about 90-95% of completion.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">#522</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">ink on clayboard</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">6 x 6"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">© Lumi 9</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">I still have no idea which side is up or down for #522, 528... so don't get attatched. Actually don't ever get attached to any image I show you of my work. I'm always likely to go back and change (ruin, fix, improve, throw out my window, break over my leg, use as a coaster) it.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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There is a reason why I say 90-95%. It's because I expect a certain amount of damage to be incurred on the way back to the states, and expecting to be finished touching work, only to find that you have to mend corners in the end seems to add time to the process. But if you have to do some touch-ups anyway, it makes the mending fold into the workflow a lot better.<br />
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I'll do what I can to avoid damage by wrapping everything in plastic (like above) and put the finished work into pre-made boxes fit for every size of surface (I brought over about 35 pieces).Lumi 9http://www.blogger.com/profile/10532825617329534466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010535388841028405.post-75229624334370911142011-07-11T03:04:00.000-05:002011-07-11T03:04:58.023-05:00Graffiti/Steet ArtSeeing as I consider myself a bit of a student of "the mark" of artists and because I'm currently living in a city that has a higher concentration of this type of public art than I've ever had the opportunity to occupy (aaaaaand keeping in context with the recent passing of the first graffiti artist himself, <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=cy+twombly&hl=en&prmd=ivnsuo&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=KqsaTv-ePNDOswaNkqyVDw&ved=0CEsQsAQ&biw=1027&bih=666">Cy Twombly</a>) I need to show you the samples that I've been able to capture, here in and around the Ixelles area of Brussels. I haven't really been able to riff explicitly on this type of art making, yet, but I think I began to give my attention to it (in small amounts) when I began using the airbrush about 8 years ago.<br />
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So here's the dealio on what you can't miss if you visit Brussels, where we're staying (particularly if you're an artist that tends to draw on anything and everything visual, as well as huge chunks of other sensory experience):<br />
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On the 1st Wednesday of every month in Brussels, you can catch a lot of museums for free between one and five pm. The three museums above are some of that you could see during those times.<br />
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<b>The Natural Science Museum</b>: This was well worth the visit for the skeletons, dinosaur bones, and the primate floors. Be aware though, only the dinosaur level has translations in English. But it's still worth a view.<br />
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<b>Musical Instrument Museum</b>: This museum had an interesting setup. You had headphones that would play samplings of each musical instrument when you stood in front of them. But my advice is if you happen to not be happy with your headphones (any slight technical problems), you should be sure to switch those out at the front desk before you head on; I dealt with a lot more static than I probably needed to. Some might have trouble with the non-western instrument sections where the tones might ring a bit tinny in your ear after a while. Normally I'd of been into it, but combined with the second-rate headphones, it became a bit difficult to concentrate on what I was seeing/hearing. But the upper floors became much easier to digest and cut through my technical difficulties; probably due to familiarity with the sounds, matched with the tremendous amount of detailing and art that went into all of the inlays, woodwork, metalwork... I enjoyed myself a lot more. There was a lot of art in the upper floors.<br />
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<b>The Weirtz Museum</b>: This has to be one of the weirdest museums I've been to. I had no knowledge of this artist before hand. But there were some unique things that you might find alluring: It housed the largest canvases I've ever seen (see #1 above). There was a painting/mural that the artist chose to put in a corner of the building taking advantage of the rough texture of the concrete of the wall for inspiration (see #3, 4). It also contained some of the strangest pictures I've ever seen. One made me laugh aloud when viewing it (partially due to a terse, well-timed, off-colored comment from my companion - see #2). I had heard that Weirtz was known for his violence, but seeing a painting of a woman preparing a small child's leg with which she cut off to eat in a soup, I suppose, took me by surprise. Don't worry; she still held the bloodied body in her arms for comfort (NOT PICTURED - you didn't want me spoiling all the fun, did you?).Lumi 9http://www.blogger.com/profile/10532825617329534466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010535388841028405.post-43597487791760843862011-07-05T13:49:00.001-05:002011-07-09T10:14:19.495-05:00Travelling<div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Visiting foreign lands becomes a ritual of discovery that focuses on the new while at the same time reiterating the similarities and differences between the little worlds we encounter and home. I find things I want to take back with me, while others are best left behind (Red Light District, anyone?). Traveling is one of many paths towards self discovery which, when wrung of all it's benefits, becomes an indispensable calibrator of self-identity. And to help give adrenaline rushes of weighty import, I prefer to merge my travels with looking at art.<br />
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</div>So when I travel abroad (as in across the states) the act of looking is paramount for me. But when faced with the constraints of time and the sheer amount and variety of cultural experiences in the menu of many metropolitan center (as in Brussels, where I am now), the importance of brevity of selection cannot be ignored. Normally, in such situations, the web is indispensable in lending a hand at cutting the fat and narrowing my preferences... but I have not, as of yet, found a useful travelers site geared for the contemporary artist. Maybe I'm asking too much. Of course it's easy to find the museums in the guide books and searching for the top listing of galleries isn't difficult. But surely someone's realized that aesthetes of every stripe don't feed solely on museums (and those of us that do, don't know everything about the collection - <i>I miss things all the time!</i>); and sifting through galleries, reviews, and artists' websites can take a lot of time. There has to be something that cuts search time without sacrificing variety, while also providing novel suggestions, avoiding the trap of just being another guidebook online.<br />
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I'm imagining <b>"Travepedia for Artists"</b>... so far, I haven't found it.<br />
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Until I find it, I hope to dedicate some time sharing what I experience while in Europe, in case you ever decide to cover the same trails.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small;">No, my blog is not about to turn into a travelogue. Everything will remain centered around the subject of my art and it's process. I apologize, but it's time to get back to more immediate concerns....</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0KWYG5mk2sBjWrMDrK1ZMaNfoWCAQTddp7Q-mMp_3fy6kWUS6FUokCXtq792Nl9Wls5laYygci9s_D286EGykZZ3NJpxrSccO6f4iFvqTK0IM-vJPAOS4-_OmTfjtDSm-RAbXnj62nlk/s400/PC080043_72dpi.jpg" width="400" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(my last gratuitous photograph)</span></div>Lumi 9http://www.blogger.com/profile/10532825617329534466noreply@blogger.com0City of Brussels, Belgium50.8503396 4.351710300000036150.7916046 4.2901203000000363 50.9090746 4.4133003000000359tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010535388841028405.post-83799065016148121612011-06-26T13:26:00.006-05:002011-06-27T12:31:10.718-05:00"Untitled (519)" & The Issue of Titles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY0OkaFKpBdIA9jfglBFQUI-WeXKsZX7XPPASftnnAojzZfFBv8BiOoOw9LvmQC5q8hrnhtXSq3g2dlBkQ7FjwmtePq1Jwhfm0MppF1nKHIAJ_4h3yf3uqU0MprP-aEaGt9oHgDc0CbKU/s400/110626_00519_LUMI9Ritter.jpg" width="284" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Untitled (519)</div><div style="text-align: center;">ink, graphite on clayboard</div><div style="text-align: center;">5x7"</div><div style="text-align: center;">© 2011 Lumi 9</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"...unless you want to make your art as obscure (and many artists do), the title of an abstract image is particularly important. Often the title is the only key to the art other than the piece itself..."</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">- I was floating around the internet, looking for people's thoughts on titling abstract works "Untitled" and I found the above quote from about.com, by Helen South.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">You may have noticed the #s I place in the title section of the labels under my art on this blog and on my website [see <a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_498.html">Untitled (498)</a>, or <a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_504-512.html">Untitled (504-12)</a>]. These numbers are assigned in order of what pieces I <b>start</b>. I have to keep track of all of the different bits of information relative to each work in a file on my computer and I would have a hard time remembering hundreds of "Untitled"s individuality (much less, what medium I used) without some sort of title distinction. Once I felt the pressure to start rushing my art naming, I thought it was better to take a cue from musical composers and just number each piece.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Those of you who have been following me since 2010, will notice I used to title all of my paintings and drawings. I've increasingly begun to lean on my numbering system for more and more works. This is, in part, because I think I'm starting to understand more about what I'm doing and therefore the art takes less time [from hundreds of hours for <a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2010_Delta.html">Delta</a> to about eight for <a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_516.html">Untitled (516)</a>]. But, it is also because when I look at other's art I don't like to keep a title in my minds "menu" - so to speak - while looking (much less, the entire label). I think it's very distracting and helps feed the habitual need to answer the <b>"What is it?"</b> question, as opposed to the <b>"What is it doing?"</b> kind of thinking that I prefer while experiencing works of art.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Of course, I acquiesce to the necessity of putting labels near a work of art. I obviously do it myself. People need that information. And it would be terrible to not know the names of who made your favorite paintings. But I, personally, make a conscious effort to not let the label be a part of my experience of other's work unless the artist has chosen to make that label a subject of their art (I can't think of any examples).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">On a certain level this is an impossible task: to keep the information on labels out of your mind while that creamy white sticker, or matted, calligraphic font appears so repeatedly, so perfectly - so unconsciously - following the literary habit of top to bottom, left to right, waiting for your finished eyes to end with the finality of the experience as: "Johnny Paintsalot, Design in Blue, oil on canvas, gift of Dorothy McMoneybags". </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Blech.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">And I suppose, in a way, every artist makes the label a part of the work when they give their art a title (now I've thought of thousands of examples). So there's a certain inescapability of the thing that I would like to shirk, but feel like I have to accept to a certain extent.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">What I accept is that artwork, when displayed, needs labels. What I don't accept is that abstract art requires, or for that matter, needs a title. Leaving an abstract work of art "Untitled" gives the viewer a chance to see it for the first time again and again, keeping the experience away from a certain measure of cataloguing temptation where the art is brought to mind, but finishes as quickly when a breath of "The Scream", "Broken Obelisk", or "The Dream" leaves your lips. This is where my contention with the quote above arises. It presents the problem of titling works of art as a task likened to presenting knowledge of a treasure, while reminding you of the importance of leaving the map so that you can actually find that treasure (therein, removing obscurity). I prefer to look at the situation a little differently. I consider untitled, abstract work to be both the treasure and the map, while the things on the labels are just what they actually are: information used to differentiate treasures. If a title is to be chosen for the work, it means that something has been added, even gifted to the completed work; a lens through which the tone, mood, color, space, subject, object or anything the artist desires may be made maleable or rarified in the physical artwork standing (or hanging) before you.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">My choice to keep works untitled, is meant to remind the viewer that my art is not intended to be seen as abstracted flowers, or potential faces or masks, or whatever one may be seeing in any of my pieces that have correlations in the outside world. This is not putting obscurity on a pedestal. It is the conscious decision to keep the action of the work between the retina and the surface, leaving labels for their better purposes.</div>Lumi 9http://www.blogger.com/profile/10532825617329534466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010535388841028405.post-65543509666981620172011-06-25T15:17:00.001-05:002011-06-25T16:53:56.246-05:00"Untitled (520)"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGKaFycfSb2M7_eMJzXoYhQvIfsvENopzg_Tjcw5PSFCOdJYpDLhig-aplkIbGMHhC-JXwoZusB82-Bopi69m-bAhq1JVaLzHmNwtWt1MEUUypAs-3kKUQBHWOucw-2-2QKc8Q75CDQUc/s400/110525_00520_Lumi9-Ritter.jpg" width="400" /></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">Untitled (520)</div><div style="text-align: center;">ink, graphite on clayboard</div><div style="text-align: center;">6x6"</div><div style="text-align: center;">© 2011 Lumi 9</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">This was the 2nd or 3rd drawing that I started after <a href="http://lumi9news.blogspot.com/2011/06/untitled-516-purchase-information.html">Untitled (516)</a>. I can't remember which was first because I started one when the other was still in process. I tend to do 4-5 works at a time, with some pieces finishing much quicker than others. Right now, I have 5-6 surfaces stoking in the fire and I hope to have another 4-5 begun (maybe 3 finished) in the next week.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">But this small scale group of work is very different than anything I've done before (considering my beginning point as <a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2010_Threshold_Apprehension.html">Threshold Apprehension</a> - the 1st piece I dedicated towards exploration of the mark last year in 2010). I think the most immediate thing that separates this new work from previous is the newly injected fantastical science-fiction-like nature of these pictures. The objects in the piece above have an obvious mechanical root in life. Combined with the superficially observed lack of gravity amongst the objects - the floating "confetti", the "tubing", the "panels" - one might walk away thinking I'm showing an image of jettisoned waste from the recently retired space shuttle. The second difference is the sizable expanses of color that seem to bubble amongst the detritus (using "sizable" to refer to the percentage of the surface the shape takes up - not how big the shape actually is).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">This may be a bad way of starting a conversation where I <b>don't</b> want you consistently thinking of actual objects littering the images, but it at least gets your attention directed towards the <b>correct</b> objects in a more or less abstract picture. Yes, I may have used a reference image to jump off of like a diving board, but I clearly didn't describe it in all of it's literal glory for a reason. My art is not in competition with your phones and digital cameras.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">But what I am seeking to capture and abuse by using pin-pointed techniques of drawing from life on micro and macro levels in my paintings is your mind's capacity for pattern recognition. This serves as the entry point for your eyes. The "look for what you know" tendency is intended to keep you searching, scanning for spaces of familiarity. As an artist, I make it my business to take this tendency and lead you to places you've never seen before. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Fore example...</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">...when you're drawn in towards a little section, like <b>Detail 1</b>, you can see how the dark protuberance leading out of the red shape, followed by a flurry of calligraphic marks and colors, are arranged in a believable, three-dimensional, object-like manner (darks are where the shadows belong, lights are where the fullest light has been exposed, etc.). For all intents and purposes, your brain is legitimized in asking the question, "What is it?" It may not be clear, but the above image definitely describes <b>a thing</b>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Now let's turn our attention to <b>Detail 2 </b>(and let's ignore the swooping blue and purple shapes in the lower portion of the picture). One might have difficulty making heads or tails of the "What is it?" question. The color areas seem to have no relation to each other (other than their unity in a "coolness" of temperature), and there are three very prominent curving lines, slicing through blues, greens, and purples as if their shape indicated no mass. So what <b>are</b> we looking at?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">If you "stand back" and look at the full picture of <b>Untitled (520)</b>, you can see <b>Detail 2</b>'s original area. Even though the 3 "poles" do have have a steep value contrast (like looking at a window through the spokes of a staircase) you can't activate them as a layer superimposed on the color shapes behind them creating two distinct spacial planes because of the (1) former color's natural buoyancy by the lightness of their hue, bringing them to the surface of the drawing and (2) the obvious fact that the 3 lines were made after the color splotches were laid down, leaving them on the surface as well. This creates a tension in spacing that denies the viewer the traditional three-dimensional experience in which one enters a painting and "walks around." From my perspective, the desire to move behind the three lines to see the floating greens and purples unobstructed should be disappointed to find that no such space exists. You have just been confronted by a space that lives to emphasize its own surface; the actual clayboard along with the actual media used to draw on it.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">It would be sensible to be comforted by entrance of <b>Detail 1</b>, but by the time one came to <b>Detail 2</b>, you should realize the inconsistency of spacing and been confronted with a "different" type of visual experience that holds both types of phenomena in the same hand.</div>Lumi 9http://www.blogger.com/profile/10532825617329534466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010535388841028405.post-79380998660413455732011-06-24T12:46:00.003-05:002011-06-24T13:06:50.527-05:00Getting Ready for Europe<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="350" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&hl=en&doflg=ptm&ie=UTF8&t=h&msid=217634964524078107176.0004a6778caa2032cdad7&ll=50.178383,2.112737&spn=2.643538,4.477946&output=embed" width="425"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><small>View <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&hl=en&doflg=ptm&ie=UTF8&t=h&msid=217634964524078107176.0004a6778caa2032cdad7&ll=50.178383,2.112737&spn=2.643538,4.477946&source=embed" style="color: blue; text-align: left;">Europe 2011</a> in a larger map</small></div><div style="text-align: center;"><small><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(zoom back if you can't see all the cities)</span> </small><br />
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</small></div><div style="text-align: left;"><small><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Next Wednesday, my wife and I are headed to Europe for the month because she is involved with a study abroad program at the university here. We're both treating it more like a work abroad opportunity and less like a vacation (though we're fully aware of how most of our days are going to look more like a vacation). With a short stop in Chicago for the day, we should arrive in Brussels, Belgium by 6:00pm on Wednesday night. Over four weeks we should make our way into the likes of Paris and London and whatever cultural beacons attract our fancy. Pray I stay organized to have a heap of relevant material spilling out onto this blog about what kinds of museums, art, or music I see while we wonder their streets and hotspots.</span></small></div><div style="text-align: left;"><small><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></small></div><div style="text-align: left;"><small><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">At the very least (because I know this is going to be an uphill battle) I have some pretty important things I do want to walk away with on August 2nd, whenever we finally make our voyage back to familiar shores:</span></small></div><div style="text-align: left;"><small><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span">Have the majority of the surfaces I take over completed, or at the very least, taken as far as they can for finishing when I reach home.</span></li>
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I purchased about 40 of these small Ampersand Claybord's a couple weeks ago, specifically because I knew I was going to Europe and didn't have a way to transport large pictures over there. So instead I picked up anything that could fit in a backpack.<br />
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This would obviously mean that my work was going to change quite a bit. I saw it as an opportunity and implimented some changes on a couple pieces, including one that I discussed <a href="http://lumi9news.blogspot.com/2011/06/untitled-00516.html">June 21st</a> on this blog [See <a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_516.html">Untitled (516)</a>]. One of the effects of the changes implemented resulted in a loss of deep time for building large streams of data in thousands of tiny dots or slashes [see <a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_Snakesong.html">Snakesong</a>, and <a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_Snakesong_D1.html">Snakesong - detail</a>], for a return to life drawing which quickens my square inch coverage time. This affords immediate benefits to the work. I only know how to successfully work from life at a speed higher than that of my imaginal works, meaning my marks come out faster and less refined for capturing an image in an impressionistic manner, imbuing a liveliness that I normally have to carve out of space over inflexible hours of tenacious "adjustment" through repetitive marks [<a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_Snakesong_D1.html">Snakesong-detail</a>]. My more patient techniques show aptitude and patience, but they sacrifice a breath of mark and require ever-so-slow build-ups to make the pockets of spacing that become reminiscent of looser media and materials like stains, and brush trails and watercolor [see <a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_Adrift_D1.html">Adrift-detail</a>]. Only obstinate lookers and critical devils sense the wavering of my hand in most of my pieces and I consider that a loss at most times. Drawing from life switches the strengths of the mark from highlighting the higher, but sparse and calibrated decisions of my pictures to the lower, relational aspects of ground-level effects occurring on the surface. I hope to bring both to a newer table in the future.<br />
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</span></div>Lumi 9http://www.blogger.com/profile/10532825617329534466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010535388841028405.post-42692561826628724042011-06-23T15:15:00.004-05:002011-06-24T09:46:43.570-05:00"Untitled (516)" Purchase Information<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisRclhGs8ovYRB6ULLOstjquQKLlv3T28SOdYjvtpgqiYQxXFAypeFR3buxmVB4PFEqTiAbrzHC3yP8BsVJtIGfGogB7EnXGS3OPDBUE09tG6UblWXBioLRzxYQSny9liw2E1s9xhkAzI/s1600/PB200080_01_720x+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisRclhGs8ovYRB6ULLOstjquQKLlv3T28SOdYjvtpgqiYQxXFAypeFR3buxmVB4PFEqTiAbrzHC3yP8BsVJtIGfGogB7EnXGS3OPDBUE09tG6UblWXBioLRzxYQSny9liw2E1s9xhkAzI/s400/PB200080_01_720x+copy.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_516.html">Untitled (516)</a> © 2011 Lumi 9<br />
ink, graphite on clayboard<br />
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</div>Lumi 9http://www.blogger.com/profile/10532825617329534466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010535388841028405.post-91375258053601534822011-06-23T13:02:00.000-05:002011-06-23T13:02:15.825-05:00Skateboard<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw7JFdDbLqzd2NVF8lNBpQJGI7CLfHDkfFYzXNKldAxfnXQF3wmr96FHZFyqzFWUbpZVXMYPVCkMeRqGR_Gh8CZUQKSr_K0tqD4BGli9KLe8_1sDLanDiAQPFCDpZ0j63AIU4IosC9FMA/s1600/PB280004_01_720x960.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw7JFdDbLqzd2NVF8lNBpQJGI7CLfHDkfFYzXNKldAxfnXQF3wmr96FHZFyqzFWUbpZVXMYPVCkMeRqGR_Gh8CZUQKSr_K0tqD4BGli9KLe8_1sDLanDiAQPFCDpZ0j63AIU4IosC9FMA/s640/PB280004_01_720x960.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Untitled (517)</div><div style="text-align: center;">ink on skateboard</div><div style="text-align: center;">© Lumi 9</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">This has been one of my little projects this past month. I've finished the image, itself. But there might be some tweaks that I'll apply a month or two down the road.</div>Lumi 9http://www.blogger.com/profile/10532825617329534466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010535388841028405.post-33167042878934961102011-06-21T11:36:00.003-05:002011-06-21T15:00:07.454-05:00Untitled (516)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_516.html"><img border="0" height="393" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGjZ2HhPnYLOJa2yRQkIyq6q2FlhYgT051RziQFsI4Uj5beAmG0d0KQjOqzOW2pZLS1tFFvDqNe2wp_U6nRKKx4jEjLtkzwa4t218ea7ONOX2V1pVX0Hn1bU9aPf0UMDebolstB9I7wIc/s400/00516_02_720x_SIGNED.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_516.html">Untitled (516)</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">ink, graphite on clayboard</div><div style="text-align: center;">6x6"</div><div style="text-align: center;">© 2011 Lumi 9</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">I've been waiting to blog about this piece because it represents a mild, but important, departure from some of my more recently developed artistic habits (I finished it about two weeks ago). The major differences are: (1) the loss of symmetry (though it's truer to say that it has just been embedded deeper than before), and (2) I'm working from a reference for the first time in a long time.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">The reasons for these changes are simple (and yet, not so): (1) though the obsessive symmetry employed in most of my pictures is a sort of "edge acknowledgement" of the object upon which I am focusing my attention [see <a href="http://www.lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_498.html">Untitled (498)</a>, and <a href="http://www.lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_Samhain.html">Samhain</a>], it can be a bit restrictive visually. I hopefully have done the best that I can to avoid this entrapment; but it must be admitted that the time required to breath life in a frontal, completely symmetrical, figural apparition requires a <b>vastly</b> larger amount of time than if I were to loosen my belt and release my forms from the grid. But with this newly applied "attitude" (more explanation to follow), I have completed similar works of similar size in 2 days, a piece - as opposed to the months required for works like <a href="http://www.lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_Snakesong.html">Snakesong</a>. But have no doubt, symmetry will return in my work again and again. (2) the choice to use reference material has more to do with not requiring the non-use of them in my methods of picture making. In other words, I've been interested in exploring the limitations (if there are any) of solitary, unfettered imagination for a long time and I think with the past year to year-and-a-half of painting has given me the confidence to let my guard down and say that I don't need reference material to make a work of art (notice I haven't said anything about <b>good</b> or <b> bad)</b>.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">It was more of a challenge to myself to not rely on what my artistic education and experience has tried many times to convince me of what the backbone my practice should be:<b> life drawing</b>. I know I can draw from life. But for reasons that are felt as both idiosyncratic and necessary, I found it distasteful to heavily lean on the generously flowing streams of information that would pour from me in life drawing classes. It just seemed to come a bit too easy for me to be comfortable with the minor accomplishments of that setting. Honestly, I can't tell you exactly why I felt this way. But with hesitant approximation, I'll say I think I set my resolve to try to avoid the figure drawing tradition about 6-7 years ago when I was at the Kansas City Art Institute. I was (naively, I say now) trying to uphold another tradition: <b>the avante-garde</b>. Though my drawing skills have been intermittently abused in the intervening years in some pieces and art projects (see <a href="http://www.lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2010_Emma,_Box_Watching.html">Emma, Box Watching</a>), it has remained on the far periphery of my artistic output.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">The fact that I am now inserting observational data does not insinuate that I'm finished with purely imaginal, symmetrical works. It is better to say it is the beginnings of feeling a bit more comfortable in my own skin and personal history. Obviously from <a href="http://www.lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_516.html">Untitled (516)</a>, I have no interest in keeping the integrity of the original objects intact in the final work. I will continue to focus on the potential distortions and the plasticity of unbridled vision in a sufficiently loosened, yet composed pictorial environment. But the days of stubborn, obstinate refusal to use the basic tools at my disposal because doing so might make me <b>feel</b> like an artist with fewer limitations are finally beginning to wane (I remember a time when digital technologies like Photoshop were anathema for me... actually, also around 6-7 years ago).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">I'd like to say that it's my newfound sense of humility... but it's more likely been the consistent hammering of practical concerns over the past two years. Either way, this new found artistic attitude is very welcome and I look forward to its output.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">There's many things I can say about this work, but I think I've typed at your eyes long enough. But the short ending I want to leave you with is that works like <a href="http://www.lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_516.html">Untitled (516)</a> are going to be coming out of my studio much faster than the pieces made for <a href="http://www.lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Show/Entries/2011/5/5_Kentuck_Museum.html">The Other Folk</a> show, so I expect to be working from this blog a lot more often in the future. So stay posted and you'll get to see the process unfold!</div>Lumi 9http://www.blogger.com/profile/10532825617329534466noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010535388841028405.post-52892855975819165332011-06-19T17:48:00.004-05:002011-06-21T12:00:15.763-05:00Art Catchup<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'm starting a new batch of work and they're finishing much faster than my other work. Despite my wishes to keep up with all of the blogging I need to do on the work coming out of my studio, I'm too behind. So this needs to be a catchup post of the rest of the work that I displayed at <a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Show/Entries/2011/5/5_Kentuck_Museum.html">The Other Folk Show</a> because I need to start blogging about the newer paintings. But they're some of my favorite pieces so I'm happy to be sharing them with you.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_Snakesong.html">Snakesong</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">ink on clayboard</div><div style="text-align: center;">30x30"</div><div style="text-align: center;">© 2011 Lumi 9</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_The_Pad_1B_%26_A2.html">The Pad 1B & A2</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">ink, acrylic on clayboard</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">2 24x36" panels</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">© 2011 Lumi 9</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_ERHM.html">ERHM</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">ink on top of a digitally manipulated drawing printed on canvas</div><div style="text-align: center;">31x31"</div><div style="text-align: center;">© 2011 Lumi 9</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_515.html">Untitled (515)</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">(Limited edition of 10)</div><div style="text-align: center;">giclee print of digital drawing</div><div style="text-align: center;">18x24"</div><div style="text-align: center;">© 2011 Lumi 9<br />
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<a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_513.html">Untitled (513)</a><br />
ink on clayboard<br />
12x12"<br />
© 2011 Lumi 9</div>Lumi 9http://www.blogger.com/profile/10532825617329534466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010535388841028405.post-52599078862687052192011-06-18T15:16:00.003-05:002011-06-18T15:17:11.215-05:00Framed and hung artwork...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnIQRTs0Sup1EdFhf2A2ELKPYa2TaCVFuHf2xm9GR4ZgEZvhl8nt0mnD5nVu1FqUux87zZGC56G7tUyIbv8LqQXIj_MGtLVezk_Tlz62BapdWCrGy5dWKsQvYFRxW9xoK6yOdgWSwhDbU/s1600/PB200022_01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnIQRTs0Sup1EdFhf2A2ELKPYa2TaCVFuHf2xm9GR4ZgEZvhl8nt0mnD5nVu1FqUux87zZGC56G7tUyIbv8LqQXIj_MGtLVezk_Tlz62BapdWCrGy5dWKsQvYFRxW9xoK6yOdgWSwhDbU/s400/PB200022_01.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Instill</div><div style="text-align: center;">ink on top of digital drawing printed on canvas</div><div style="text-align: center;">36x48"</div><div style="text-align: center;">© 2011 Lumi 9</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">As a painter, I tend to synthesize my influences in art, sometimes more directly than others. This piece is dedicated towards exorcizing at least one of the ideas that I have gleaned from <a href="http://www.clyffordstill.net/">Clyfford Still</a>. His tendency toward applying paint in a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9collage"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">d<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">écollage</span></span></a> sort of manner has always been very striking. You may see that portions of the white in Instill have an appearance of being torn to reveal a helical pattern underneath (composed of 4 color strips combining to make that overall, fleshy color). Which layer was on top didn't matter. What did matter to me, was the edge in which the "colors" meet and how that edge affected the shapes and the color of those shapes. I don't believe I made the original conception of the piece a major component of the final outcome, but it was an interesting jumping off point that I hope to revisit again in the future.</div>Lumi 9http://www.blogger.com/profile/10532825617329534466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010535388841028405.post-41461861863298255572011-05-25T14:20:00.000-05:002011-05-25T14:20:06.031-05:00Two weeks until I.C.E.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ice-atlanta.com/"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFvrkljs43dbHfrnyLmhbEFJzQ86TfZ9_JRDM9zkMxT4QNpo83hhqTF0QbacwhRO7NROzA6ZwUxNluRKiW5SlFvveKI9ona7Qs7sKNv-pbvuWCql7MyaRIbQnPrgXKlFISypEqrUIpJxI/s640/QtrPgandICEButton.jpg" width="344" /></a></div>Lumi 9http://www.blogger.com/profile/10532825617329534466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010535388841028405.post-59119292938664217752011-05-23T18:57:00.006-05:002011-05-23T19:36:32.672-05:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_Voom.html"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGqXjyWd_QBAq9G3n-CZQ1mzU35iqQ_49F7itQULOsSr4WmqyddsbpJb3hvwsmBRMXCzA4V8b_Sozm1Ny6SYc_mKtM8LQ2oDDxzzz0kItOKBY5A9fvXA-u4ylFbVSzi6Iyd0lE7Rd98Fs/s400/00499_701x720_SIGNED.jpg" width="388" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_Voom.html">Voom</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">ink on top of digitally manipulated drawing that is printed on canvas</div><div style="text-align: center;">31x32"</div><div style="text-align: center;">© 2011 Lumi 9</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">This is "<i>Voom</i>". The title and concept of the work came after I started working on the patterning that you can see in the small phone pic that you see below.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">I had planned, all along, that I was going to experiment working on top <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gicl%C3%A9e" style="line-height: 20px;">giclée</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"> prints of images, for some pieces for the </span><a href="http://lumi9news.blogspot.com/2010/11/show-at-kentuck-museum.html" style="line-height: 20px;">Kentuck Show</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"> (One week left! </span><a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Show/Entries/2011/5/5_Kentuck_Museum.html" style="line-height: 20px;">Check it out</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"> before it comes down!). Like </span><a href="http://lumi9news.blogspot.com/2011/05/male.html" style="line-height: 20px;">Male</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">, I had to create a pattern or field that I wanted to print out. But I thought this piece would look better if I drew a small portion of the symmetrical motifs by hand, and then scan that into the computer and see what kind of manipulation I could do to it afterwards. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">I originally had planned to let the squarish pattern that formed after connecting the tiles (seen below) keep in the final look of the painting... but I decided to experiment.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I overlaid one of my "masks" and when I flipped on the white color.... it just became clear that the piece had asserted it's overall "look".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I immediately saw Pollocks "<a href="http://www.artchive.com/artchive/P/pollock/pollock_the_deep.jpg.html">The Deep</a>" in my mind when I saw the image above. So I started working from there... while also thinking it was a good time to start running titles around in my mind.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">About this time, I was on a kick of watching documentaries about famous artists and I had just seen <a href="http://www.haring.com/universe_of_haring/">The Universe of Keith Haring</a>, and there was a short clip of a video work that Haring did where he was saying "Daa-da-da-Daa-da-da-Daaa-Daa-Da-Da" directly into the camera. He went on to explain that this was related to when his Dad had taught him morse code when he was a kit. I thought I would reverse the sex and use inspiration from that to make my painting about "woman".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We often hear the phrase - or maybe not often, but we've all heard before, "Va-va-voom!"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I heard the phrase in my mind because I drew this odd "flame" right in the center of my painting... like a wondering vagabond of black smoke amongst a snowstorm... but I've been keen to get some motor sports references in my work for my brother (he does autobody) and this flame reminded me of the fire on the side of any race car to skateboard. It didn't happen immediately, but at some point the associational machinery led me to "Va-va-voom!". A phase full of testosterone filled wonder.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And that was it. I knew what I was going to do. I had my title and I knew that I was going to apply the first part of the phrase literally on the canvas in a reorganized sort of morse code, just like Keith did. And that's where I want you to be with this work: thinking about the sound of the phrase, repeating it over and over in your mind as a kind of meditational invitation, while the swirling color and shapes blows it's wind about the stationary black figure confronting your countenance like a goddess.</div>Lumi 9http://www.blogger.com/profile/10532825617329534466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010535388841028405.post-18290915982822470572011-05-20T18:05:00.002-05:002011-05-20T18:06:46.226-05:00Untitled (513)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_513.html"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAVNZ1xsROYXdlKLH3Dq5DH2-hWdjkSZI5VNeuBXQm27x3WoMbsSnYApQ6tOXMnIKxiUemAJrO4CYjgSgk2-ftF4PI_6k1XWRVpk70ij8izNaND4iyYaTUw-eDJstNOhCRgkg5ikKLaeA/s400/00513_720x720_SIGNED.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_513.html">Untitled (513)</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">12x12"</div><div style="text-align: center;">ink on clayboard</div><div style="text-align: center;">© 2011 Lumi 9</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Because I make most of my pictures at the same time while I prepare for a show, this piece was an interruption to that flow in a collection of work that <a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Show/Entries/2011/5/5_Kentuck_Museum.html">I am now showing at the Kentuck Museum this month</a>. This is why the energy released in the picture itself is so much more complete in it's cycle of dissolving itself than in most of my other pictures. The size of the board was small and I didn't interrupt with any symmetrical forms, which helped relieve a lot of the front end preparation time.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Inspiration for the actual subject of the piece came from the chapter "Mushrooms and Evolution" in <b>The Archaic Revival</b>, by Terence McKenna. He ruminates over the events that brought such levels of consciousness to proto-humans, arguing for a position that states hallucinogenic plants bootstrapped themselves onto an evolving primate insuring an ecstatic, hallucinogenic experience accessing "...the transcendent Other..." for the primate; domestication of previously wild cattle creating a specialized environment perfect for the dung-loving mushroom.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">"Interspecies pheromones or exopheromones"</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Where "...pheromones are chemical compounds exuded by an organism for the purpose of carrying messages between organisms of the same species...", exopheromones would relay information between species. This is played out in the article as a mystery of unwinding romance between Man and Mushroom.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">No need to let the truth of the matter darken a discussion of what thoughts arise amongst what kind of pictures of lurid fantasies or bitter hells... What I'd hoped to illuminate with this piece are the spaces between conscious recognition of any polarities. A place that is neither heaven, nor hell, but contented to have no concern with which is which.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">My picture <a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_513.html">Untitled (513)</a>, is a picture from my mind of such a space.</div>Lumi 9http://www.blogger.com/profile/10532825617329534466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010535388841028405.post-21308437503360175102011-05-20T17:47:00.005-05:002011-05-20T18:07:19.735-05:00Druid City Arts Poster Draw Winner<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-te0YtuUDNE" width="425"></iframe>Lumi 9http://www.blogger.com/profile/10532825617329534466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010535388841028405.post-28698755633565901312011-05-17T18:18:00.005-05:002011-05-20T18:16:35.739-05:00Male<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_Male.html"><img border="0" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnF5F5HILc2WCD7cHa2cspvX5MvZKcVUuFDLdVQl_6ApgINK5ujA7P6lBMptL9OZ_cUxEzAPanw96FY0U0v74usoxC5UbnK0T9MojSOTEpHvjLK8hW-mmJjzY8kWjGESq-weiUwuei45U/s400/00502_SIGNED.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_Male.html">Male</a></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;">34x48"</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;">ink on top of a digital drawing printed on canvas</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;">© 2011 Lumi 9</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;">I had always wanted to work on top of a g<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-weight: 500; line-height: 27px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">iclée</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; color: white; font-family: Futura-Medium, Futura, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 27px;"> </span>print. I thought it would be nerve-racking building imagery on top of something that wasn't as retrievable as hard clayboard. It gave way toward an understanding that my work isn't about choking flow of energy over mania of material; mistakes even within this range of experience are amicable toward creativity and forgiveness. It always points to <i>time</i>. When in doubt, slow down and find the rhythm that your content with. Rushing work of such necessary cleanliness never makes for a comfortable finish. </div></div>Lumi 9http://www.blogger.com/profile/10532825617329534466noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010535388841028405.post-91546687550178186882011-05-09T11:42:00.000-05:002011-05-09T11:42:28.825-05:00Homegrown Alabama<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-dwf5bIv69QUV4bUGkx0pfJ7HzDhbvOWWL9DP71Hu-mZrZSXKFsj6sXmV8LV9g0Kf7CAoMHKdMMrokOEwJCu94EmivEWNFfA7VIR-Gq9rdd9b6Uc58kpq1tUOpIlpusXWjWiZE5Qaw4k/s1600/Homegrown+Logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-dwf5bIv69QUV4bUGkx0pfJ7HzDhbvOWWL9DP71Hu-mZrZSXKFsj6sXmV8LV9g0Kf7CAoMHKdMMrokOEwJCu94EmivEWNFfA7VIR-Gq9rdd9b6Uc58kpq1tUOpIlpusXWjWiZE5Qaw4k/s400/Homegrown+Logo.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="paragraph_style_7" style="color: #515151; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.1em; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 1; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;">Homegrown Alabama, the farmers market that operates on the University of Alabama campus on Thursdays from May through October, has just added an artistic component this year. Once a month (on the 3rd Thursday), they will showcase 4 crafters/artists and they just asked me to show in the first round in May. So mark your calendars for next Thursday to see me and my art in poster, postcard, and fine art print form (along with a few originals).</div><div class="paragraph_style_7" style="color: #515151; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.1em; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 1; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;"><span class="style_5" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Bold, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: 23px;"><br />
</span></div><div class="paragraph_style_7" style="color: #515151; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.1em; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 1; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;"><span class="style_5" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Bold, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: 23px;">Date:</span> May 19, 2011</div><div class="paragraph_style_7" style="color: #515151; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.1em; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 1; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;"><span class="style_5" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Bold, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: 23px;">Time:</span> 3pm-6pm</div><div class="paragraph_style_7" style="color: #515151; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.1em; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 1; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;"><span class="style_5" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Bold, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: 23px;">Location:</span> <span class="style_6" style="font-family: LucidaGrande, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 23px;">The market is located at Canterbury Chapel on Hackberry Lane between Bryant Drive and University </span><span class="style_7" style="color: #929292; font-family: LucidaGrande, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 23px; opacity: 1;"></span><span class="style_8" style="color: black; font-family: LucidaGrande, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 23px; opacity: 1;">Blvd</span></div><div class="paragraph_style_7" style="color: #515151; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.1em; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 1; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;"><span class="style_8" style="color: black; font-family: LucidaGrande, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 23px; opacity: 1;"></span><span class="style_5" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Bold, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; line-height: 23px;">Website:</span> <a class="class9" href="http://homegrownalabama.org/" style="color: black; text-decoration: underline;" title="http://homegrownalabama.org/">www.homegrownalabama.org</a></div>Lumi 9http://www.blogger.com/profile/10532825617329534466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010535388841028405.post-25065106031936720432011-04-10T09:59:00.000-05:002011-04-10T09:59:58.173-05:00Indie Craft Experience<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ice-atlanta.com/"><img border="0" height="95" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2fh7BZUo8tzo3bLIY77Q26OjuVNsXxXA_Ohtz4PKSjXGQ9DcIERNdjrg5c2bfnSXbEL_qOQgM403Fsyz0G1DjGduh4p31V-nO_vDc_03oghExwuqf0nyuHiycKb6sGKOj-WpE5IseEH0/s320/ICeBANNER_2011_rectangle.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>I am taking part in the Indie Craft Experience in Atlanta, GA on June 11 + 12 <b>and </b>I will be sharing a booth with Kelly McKernan. You should stop by her <a href="http://kellymckernan.com/home.html">website</a> and check out her fine art and illustration work, or find her page on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/kellymckernanart">facebook</a>, and send her some digi-love.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>What I plan on bringing to the table (probably and literally), are prints, postcards, and original artworks. Anyway who stops by to say hello and signs up for my mailing list, will be submitted for a drawing to win a free poster print of one of my paintings!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>See you there. </i></span></div>Lumi 9http://www.blogger.com/profile/10532825617329534466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010535388841028405.post-90703766357708545612011-04-06T12:19:00.001-05:002011-04-06T12:20:23.394-05:00Untitled (498)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_498.html"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1wM7IWwVXTvT7gi_3pA3BySj53z9_SMSDG_6s16bS1xKZOL9lfx3U7z6qmu7mZwEaXohp64fHdYjV7XsOZysudFzi6sSUUZZuUkWwqDYs0JP73BSyj_NoDadcuOhF3JXkZqHjbxVfmZE/s400/Lights_Ritter_720x724.jpg" width="397" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">Untitled (498)</div><div style="text-align: center;">16x16"</div><div style="text-align: center;">ink on clayboard</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">This painting will be on display May 5th at the <a href="http://kentuck.org/">Kentuck Museum</a>, during a solo exhibition of new work, entitled <a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Show/Entries/2011/5/5_Kentuck_Museum.html">The Other Folk</a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">It was a piece that arose out of a section from another painting that will also be showing at the Kentuck in May (currently titled: <i>Snakesong</i>). On that work I had transitioned on to a black ground and applying white ink to delineate form. This was a bit different from normal because I was using white ink, predominantly, and that ink didn't have a good, opaque flow out of my habitual <a href="http://www.dickblick.com/products/koh-i-noor-rapidograph-pens/">Rapidographs</a>. I now had to rely on quill dip pens, which give off a completely different feel to the rhythm of the work. I liked this and decided to dedicate an entirely new work to this difference.<br />
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</div>Therein lies the idea behind <i>Untitled (498)</i>. Because the major foundation of the method deployed here was going to have a built-in, increased level of retinal buzz, because of the stark black and white, I stuck with minimally ordering a group of spheres over the 16x16", like there was an evenly applied <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtiSCBXbHAg">Cymatic Experiment</a> rippling over the clayboard.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">From there I just let the pattern grow and grow.</div><br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/GtiSCBXbHAg" title="YouTube video player" width="480"></iframe>Lumi 9http://www.blogger.com/profile/10532825617329534466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7010535388841028405.post-17868631177587810462011-03-30T09:58:00.003-05:002011-03-30T10:12:37.494-05:00Adrift<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_Adrift.html"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbkw_rBSmbSpk-PkHoTUFXYwm4PEvfJl_ihJOXIunPImZAmNQSwfTZVhhDG3xUAyrMRMu2Zsi3aR_CVj6chDHI8wYwde5k67OLaK9wN98pzlFfKAWtvEEBZLrp388cHTITvr5x2wtzNHA/s320/Adrift_Ritter_720x723_SIGNED.jpg" width="318" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_Adrift.html">Adrift</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">24x24"</div><div style="text-align: center;">ink, acrylic, gouache on clayboard</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">So this work took me a long-ass time. I never had a real plan with it, other than inserting a figure, reminiscent of works like <a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2010_Hathor.html">Hathor</a> or <a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2010_Ossoluta.html">Ossoluta</a> into an environment like <a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2010_Willow.html">Willow</a> in a more natural (asymmetrical) fashion.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">As the piece developed over the months, I was particularly pleased with the buzz between the relatively complimentarily relation of colors, in conjunction with the similarly valued foreground (with a majority of the ink applied), doubling the retinal tension.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The funny thing is that up throughout this time, I still had not yet thought to apply white ink (or gouache). Every white region on the piece was going to be carved out by remaining, naked clayboard. I'll tell you now, it's just a <i>whole</i> lot simpler and smarter to keep some white Rapidograph ink or gouache handy. I literally built up the background "growth" that you can see in the final work as the really dark forms spindling out from the central, lighter figure with teeny, tiny mechanical pen. I brought it all to a near black over a course of months... only to be frustrated by how fairly underdrawn the forms were.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My final moves were to frisket out all of the color and the frontal figure/mask and airbrush <i>more</i> black over these "growth" forms and then go over <i>that</i> with white ink. It really gave a strange, wet, Saran-wrap look to these portions of the picture which can be seen a bit more clearly in the detail below.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lumi9painting.com/Lumi_9/Art_Paint_2011_Adrift_D1.html"><img border="0" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7bUPYosafPUVmNbUT-USNJqnlEAZC9JsoWcUpVRmGUJgAm1hbdl0eBKA7-KS2Iv0l59oVmeDT2151lVhHWci5wjUC-0xJADmhjmMI2SSHKXq3Ys9sL64W6b0lMYVi5uLCPIzNO7dU-0o/s320/Ritter_Adrift_detail_SIGNED.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The strangest thing is the work ended up pretty close to some o f the earliest thoughts of what I would want a work, such as this, to end up appearing like. The surprise element that normally arise in making artwork, which I feed off of in steering the creative boat towards completion, was tamed a more than usual... but that's pleasing once in a while. It feels like a I've earned myself a bigger bull to ride.</div>Lumi 9http://www.blogger.com/profile/10532825617329534466noreply@blogger.com0