Chattham Gallery Show at PFAMILY Arts in Plano

Well, the art show at PFAMILY arts was fun but the attendance was pretty light.
The space itself is great, but no one knows that its there yet. And they don't actually have anyone staffing the art gallery. PFAMILY is mostly about performing arts and teaching dance at this point. It will be interesting to see if they get serious about the art gallery and start marketing it.
Our show will be there through the first of the year. Peggy Epner, Nancy Light-Johnson, Valerie Light-Anderson and Jay Hussey are featured in the show (and me).

There are some really great paintings hanging there, so go check it out if you're near Lakeside on Preston, in Plano.

Clayman is Coming Soon

OK, so it's been far too long since my last post. I spent much of the summer in west Texas, working on mural projects. I have been busy since I came back, mostly working on a series of small projects, ranging from antique wood effects to tinted plaster for stair wells. Despite the poor economy, the jobs continue to appear, which is good.

I need to get the Clayman series started. I have begun work on the stage, and I think I have found the best internal structure for Clayman's body. Clayman will be an animated clay man. He is to be a painter/artist, a guitar player, a romantic gentlemen, and an avid Dallas Cowboys fan.

I did my first, preliminary work on animating a clay head for him months ago. But, I have needed to design and build the set, figure out a moving, adjustable skeleton for him and write the first episode, before I could get this series started. I am finally ready to build the set. I have the first episode figured out, and I am pretty sure the skeletal structure I have figured out will work.

Albany, Texas: Where the Work Is

I have been in Albany this last week and am going back tomorrow. I have some great clients there that are having me do three murals in their home. I am recording everything with my time lapse camera and will be posting it as I get it finished. You can view the first video in my video bar on the left. Its the stairwell mural video.

Van Gogh's Starry Night, Hand-Painted Replica

Here at last, is the video that I did of my painting of Van Gogh's Starry Night

What Are You Doing At Whataburger

We stopped at a Whataburger for lunch on the way back from the coast, and ran into my Aunt Lucile and Uncle Johnny. Very surprising. We had a great visit.

My Little Mermaid

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Fun in the Sand

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Padre Island

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Padre Dunes

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On The Way To The Coast

This is in Schulenberg, Texas, on the way to the coast. When you take 77 south from Waco, you
need to keep your eyes open for some interesting bits of local culture. The store is real.

New Mural Video

This is a new video I have created for my mural painting business. Let me know what you think. I am leaving for Rockport/Port Aransas/Corpus Christi today. Look for video's featuring the beach coming soon!

Finished shooting the Van Gogh video, the rough cut looks good, but I will be editing when I get back before posting.

I am ready for some waves!

Finally Beginning the Van Gogh!

I have worked on the Van Gogh painting all day today and I am happy with how it looks.
I have been making a time-lapse video of it and will post that video, once I get it digitized and edited. I have researched Van Gogh's pallet and technique and so the process was very fun to do.

VanGogh's Starry Night

I still have not had the time to start this painting yet, but I will get to it soon. Van Gogh was in an asylum when he painted this painting. Clearly, he was have a having difficulty perceiving reality
during this time of his life. I wonder how he would have reacted, if he had known that some of his paintings would eventually sell for as much as $71 million, or that Starry Night would become so famous and well loved, that the image would appear on t-shirts, coffee mugs, mouse pads, even skate boards--not to mention 100's of thousands of posters, world wide.

Starry Night by Vincent VanGogh will be my first attempt in my series of painted copies of masterpieces. I think this painting will lend itself very well to doing a time lapse video. I am hoping that I can work in some animation as well, to make the video more interesting.

The actual painting is located at the MOMA in New York, although their website states that it is not currently being displayed. Why is this?

Masterpieces

I have decided to begin a series of paintings that will be copies of masterpieces by artists like Monet, VanGogh, Beirstadt and Moran. I am going to embark on this project as a way to learn from these masters, but mostly because I love their work and I want to know what it feels like to paint like them. There is a long established tradition of doing this as a method of training painters, although it takes place more in Europe than it does here.

After taking much time off from blogging to focus on a number of art projects, I am resuming this blog, with the following focus:

This is to be a resource for all those interested in the intersection between art and video, with a strong emphasis on painting. I will be posting painting videos of all kinds; some will be quite experimental, others will be much more straightforward, like time lapse films of paintings.

If you are interested in contributing to this forum with your own painting video, simply email me with your submission. Not all submissions will be accepted. Criteria will include: skill in painting, originality, suitability of subject matter, etc.

My goal for this blog is to create a space for gifted painters who are also interested in video to display their work and get some exposure. If we all work together to get this blog linked in with multiple web sites, we can build something that helps us all get the attention we want.