Heather and I were invited to participate in a show at FOE Gallery in Northampton this June. The theme of the show is “Piece-a-Cake”.
I’m going to make some spray-paint prints using stencils. This is the painting (acrylic on paper) that I am developing to make the stencils from. It is about 80% done, with the changes yet to come being mainly values of hues – like the letters will be a lighter value so they pop more in low light.
I like to live with the paintings to see how they look in different lighting and distances.
ADDITION
After living with this painting for a few days, I started to think that the small FOE type in the sign holder wasn’t working (particularly when seen from across the room), so I made this change:
Then after a few more days, I decided to get rid of the sign completely, because it wasn’t working with the cake.
This is now pretty much the final design for the stencil – there are 12 colors in it. I might tweak a few things, perhaps the outline of the plate, but maybe not, since the way the cake looks is what is mostly important, and I like how that looks.
giclee pf packards painting – i’ll experiment with this – painting probably
this is a study of muscle groups – did this and the next one as studies. was invited to show at Bang-Bang group show and want to do something that looks cool and has to do with the body
Started work today on a new painting in the Northampton Dreamscapes series – this one is of the now closed Pleasant Street Theater. I had been working on a version of this painting in June in a different style – one of glazing. But I switched to the newer style partly because it is quicker and partly because I need more time to work out the glazing paintings.
Worked on it 3 1/2 hours. It is very deliberate process. I’d rather it be more opaque than flat – it looks flat from a few feet anyway, and with the brush strokes (minimal though visible) it looks more interesting up close.
Watched a movie about Christo & Jeanne-Claude called The Gates. Very cool movie.
Put the dust covers on 3 giclee prints. I’ll clean them up and put on the hardware Sunday – 4 of ~20 paintings will be done for the exhibit now 5 weeks away.
Also had this on – Ivan Karp interview with Barbaralee Diamonstein sometime in the 70s I guess. Very interesting to watch. It is interesting when they talk about the pricing of paintings. This is 40 years ago and the are saying a 5×7 first show in NYC the price is $850. In today’s dollars that would be $3000? more or less?
Then I watched this one with Betty Parsons and Cleve Gray. This is really historically important and interesting.
I also went to Easthampton to White Square Books where there was a poetry reading. My friend Tonya Dixon read some poems and they were cool.
Tonya will have jewelry, painted glassware & furniture, and paintings/artwork including Psychedelic Bunnies!
I will have hand-painted pop art, mostly my Little Dot series and some hand-stenciled art (pochoirs).
The show is only two weeks away. I thought it would be interesting to make a list of everything I still have to do in preparation for the show.
1. paint backs of 12 little dot paintings with gesso to solidify.
2. go through little dot paintings, see what needs final fixes (paint touch-ups) and fix them. 1 left to touch-up.
3. When the spacer bars arriveunpack the frames and start framing. two left to frame
box of frames
4. make labels for the dust sheets.
5. Once in frames, glue on the dust sheetsand put on labels.
6. attach hanging hardware onto frames. thursday night
7. package for transportand on day of show transport, unpack and hang on wall. (find out from Tonya if we can put nails in wall) yes. maybe stop by and check out space with measuring tape.
8. Finish big paintingand on Tuesday April 24 bring to Whoo (with easel) and put in window to advertise show.
9. Make info posters for Whoo Shop windowand post with big painting on the 24th.
10. make web page about show
11. make one of those QR code things for smart phones that link to a web page and put on flyer (make sure it works)
12. final tweak of flyers, add qr code, print and start hanging up around town.
flyer for show - needs a few final tweaks
13. get plastic sleeves and backings for the pochoirs I’ve made and put them in the sleeves (150 total)ordered but might not get here in time. will get here Friday
hand colored pochoirs (stencils)
14. buy respirator and spray paint and do some tests with cut acetate to see if I can make a new spray-painted stencil series for the show. WORKS!
15. if the tests work out finalize design, buy more spray paints, paper,and make series of spray-painted stencils. time running out dude. made 16 “mono prints” They are cool.
16. get sleeves and backings for spray painted series and package them up. spray paint may be too sticky to package – get just backings.
17. make info cards for showand start handing those out. hand out more
18. email friends about the show
19. do some kind of Facebook event thing about show.
20. make blurb for valley art newsletter
21. make blurb and send to gazette and advocate (too late) about the show
22. pay rest of deposit and get key
23. check with Tonya and see what else we need to do for the show.
24. get snacks and drinks for reception Heather has a plan! You know it will be good!
25. think of things to do in the whoo space for the times nobody stops by. drink coffee
26. see who has better sound system for playing music, me or Tonya its a tie
