Monday, August 8, 2011

Bizz-ay!

Sorry for the delay.  I have picked up a weekday gig, working on a film called "Crooked Arrows" about Indian Lacross teams!  Fun times.  I'll be back so soon with lots of great painting pictures.  Please bear with me.  VIVA LA PAINTING!

Also in the works, possible teaching a small class at a craft store in the fall.  Painting experiments!

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

How it's going


A week ago I started some panels.  Last night I finished them.  One is brick, the other is the moon?  I dunno.  I did a bunch of texture and then painted it with what felt good.  Here they are! 

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

What I did today


I'm in an I.A.T.S.E. U.S.A. Union.  That is a Union for artists like myself that choose to work in the Production Design and Art Direction departments in the Entertainment Industry.  Theater, TV, Film, Print, Web... etc.  I have been a member of the Scenic Union, or U.S.A. 829 for a little over 2 years now.  I have paid dues, made contacts, had a fancy login name for the website.  I am technically an "Industrial" scenic.  I have not worked in 2 years.  
So what I need to do is build a strong portfolio that I can find out where the Scene Shops/Paint Shops are and pedal my samples.  The irony of this is, I didn't want to be an Illustrator, even though that's what I started at Art School wanting to do,  for this exact reason.  I didn't think my strongest attribute was going door to door looking for work.  I guess, as a shy Artist... I'll be broke forever.  The upside is, I LIKE to DO the work... so I'm experimenting.
I did some Non-Union Scenic work on a show at a Theater called the "Huntington Theater Company" in Boston.  Which technically is work I got through the Union, if you count it as, we had a workshop in the fall at the shop, and I gave the Charge Scenic of the shop my business card.  The theater is affiliated with Boston University.  The show I was called in as an over-hire on was "Romeo and Juliet, the Opera."  It was a Senior Thesis show, for graduating Opera Majors at BU, so it's not on the roster for thewebsite... of course.  I don't have pictures either, of course.
I may not have the exact title right for the show, but you get the idea.  The set was a massive deteriorating French building.    I did anything and everything they asked me as best as I could and after about 9 non-consecutive days I was finally starting to keep up with these girls who do this work everyday at the same paint shop for something like 5 years.  I loved it.  I was so burnt out, I forgot how PHYSICAL that kind of work can be, but I loved it loved it.
Brick

futz




The panel that is the brick (photo above) is somewhat what we were doing but on a smaller scale.  It's just the texture bit today.  The second one is just me futzing around with plaster and some additives.  I also went in and sponged out some texture, lifting off the plaster mix.  Pretty nifty eh?  I'm sure both will be fun to paint.  We'll see if I can re-create somewhat of a resemblance of what I did on the opera set.  I'm just kinda trying to blog about it to see if I can keep a pretty good step record of how I'm doing things.  :)  

Monday, June 20, 2011

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have to start somewhere

this is day one of the new blog that I will attempt to hook up to my Etsy Site "Paintventure" this way people who are interested can follow, and see how their commissions are progressing, and see the process of new work.  You can also contact me here