I got together with my brother this evening and we had dinner at Stun Cube on State Street. After we ate we went and sat on the tail gate of his truck and chatted. I spotted this building across the side street.
A door in the side of a building on State Street around the 2700 block. Taken with my OnePlus 7 Pro phone camera. Snapseed was used to crop and straighten the image and do some photo meddling to bring out some more detail.
You might not expect a tool made of plastic to outperform a higher end tool made of metal. That is just what this cheap miter box has been doing. I have achieved cleaner and more precise cuts with this simple tool than I have using my chop saw or another one that I recently used at a workshop. Mind you the cuts aren't perfect in a fine wood working sense but they suit my needs. It has come in handy to use in my makeshift balcony studio since there isn't a lot of room for power tools.
$10.00 miter box being used to make small painting panels.
The back of one of three small painting panels created today.
Today is wet and chilly and not very condusive to working outside on the balcony. So this afternoon I started another digital clown painting/drawing. Something I can do anywhere on my Galaxy Tab S3 tablet.
Roughing in the base colors.
Textures and color changes.
I've been trying out some different brushes and pencils that I haven't used before to smooth the colors and add textures. Instead of adding base colors using a bucket fill tool I added the colors using pencil brushes.
After (June 6, 2020)
Before (June 5, 2020)
I recently started working with Infinite Painter again on my Galaxy Tab S3 tablet. I think this one is just about finished and I'm going leave it for awhile then come back to it for some finishing touches if needed.
Clowning 0620. Digital drawing in progress.
I'm doing most of my work on my makeshift worktable in my makeshift studio on the balcony. The balcony faces East which means I usually need to wait till afternoon to work so it isn't bright and the shade cools things down a bit.
Small bits and pieces for three different works.
Since giving up my studio for my wife to use as a work at home office while this COVID-19 thing goes on, my studio table has become a repository for all kinds of art stuff.
Somewhere underneath this pile of papers, cardboard, painted cloth and stuff is my studio work table. The table is an old school desk.
Here's a peek at a new hanging sculpture maquette I'm working on. These images are of the pieces temporarily assembled to make sure the pieces fit. I will take them apart and paint them.
The upper part that hangs from the ceiling.
This part hangs from the upper part.
I've been using Frogtape lately for masking. It makes for nice sharp lines and I can still get a rough line when I need one where the paint bleeds a little under the tape. I haven't experienced any problems with paint coming up when I puII the tape off surfaces that have all ready been painted.
There is another low tack version of this tape that is yellow that I want to try.
I spent part of this afternoon playing some more with transfering graphite marks and inkjet printing using paint. This time l transferred pencil marks I drew on some copier paper and some inkjet printed marks to some painted cloth.
To make a transfer, I paint over the marked side of the image on the paper and place the piece paint side down and carefully adhere it to the support. After the paint is dry I dab the paper with water and rub it loose with my fingers and damp paper towel until the image appears.
The top left and right items are pieces of cloth that were painted with some light gray brown paint. A transfer was then made using some darker gray brown paint which in this case was too dark for the transferred marks to appear. The pieces were then glued to the support using pink and white paint. The bottom item shows a piece that was more successful using pink paint. The other toast and dog items in the middle are earlier experiments in transferring marks directly to the support surface.
After weeks of searching for a large nail to use in a piece I finally found one. lt's too long so cut more than half of the pointed end off with a hacksaw. I used a file to create a new sharp point.
I used some my little butane torch to help discolor the metal.
Starting out.
Halfway done.
Finished.
I came across this ad in a Horizon magazine published in 1987.
The chair I was going to use in a current piece was too small so I made a bigger one that will fit the space better.
Back in the late 80s I happened upon an issue of Horizon magazine with an article about sixteen artists working out of L.A. I've kept this issue in my library and pull it out now and then as a source of inspiration.
The sixteen artists covered in the article are Charles Arnoldi, Ed Ruscha, Tony Berlant, Lddie John Dill, Suzanne Caporael, Alexis Smith, Ron Davis, Ed Moses, Robert Graham, Richard Diebenkorn, John Register, Gwynn Merrill, Frank Gehry, Peter Shire, Billy Al Bengston, and Peter Shelton.
I thought up this idea during a sleepless night a few weeks ago. It could be a box with two sides missing. It will be interesting to see where it goes.
A rough coat of white paint has been brushed on as a ground. When it's dry I will rough sand it.
The m-house box in the works.
I found this old and very used brush I had forgotten about. It may appear on its last bristle but its still useful.
They may not appear to be but the hairs of this brush are actually soft.
I still use my art tool box that I got when I was in college.
I set my phone on a tripod and used the WatchTrigger app on my Pebble watch and phone to snap some photos as I made this tiny book from tin can and soda pop can. This little book will be part of the m-house piece in the works.
The cover is cut from the lid of a no. 10 and the pages on the left were cut from an aluminum soda pop can.
I filed the tip of a nail to a sharp point and used it to mark some holes in the spine of the pages and cover for a copper wire to go through to stitch the pages together.
I drilled the holes I marked with the nail a little bigger.
I marked where the holes will go in the spine of the cover with dots of white paint. I used a scrap of 1/8 inch mdf to stabilize the cover while I drilled holes in the spine.
The finished metal book. I used a strand of bare copper wire to stitch the pages to cover and made a loop to hang the book with.
Here are some work in progress pictures of another m-house piece I'm working on.
Getting ready to glue some thin popcicle sticks for the roof.
The inside has been painted with purple paint before gluing the sticks on the sides.