sfi mentor meeting

met with my aib mentor glenn hirch on wednesday at the sf art istitute where he teaches.
he was awesome>>> gave a lot of insight, posed questions & directions for this next leg of images to create.

took in 26 paintings & 2 printout of digital images.

i feel i did a good job fleshing out the options on my assigned agenda & have a good feel of where to take it next.

some of this will involve trashing/reprocessing a good chunk of the work i just completed. although they are done, i want to take them somewhere else. this means i will document what i have done up to this point so that if my future efforts end in total destruction 9which is perfect ok) i will have my ass covered & not show up empty handed in jan 08.

one of these trashing will be to reprocess a blue-y-g dig-paint triptych (each 2'x2) with clear gesso texture & my infamous tobacco/nicotine tint glaze. having been working with blue glazes (which i could never embrace) i am looking forward to getting down & dirty on these.

there are maybe 7 painting to use for a collage or sorts. i have them all on the wall & move them about throughout the day. next i will create a digital file to composite/montage them. think i will go for a semi-sequencial verticl scroll that goes from digital (top) to organic. think that i will cut off the black edges & then the blue/green images in to strips. doing it in photoshop will save me trouble/time on the troubleshooting upfrount before making any cuts. after that i may go over all with texture/paint glaze?

will print out & do more of the 30x30 or 36x36 dig stuff to paint on.

will experiment with the same stuff/processes on photo. am liking the new stuff a lot.

learned more about myself/style i am in at this time during the past few weeks & want to nail it for jan08.

all this stuff is tying into the scroll/narrative stuff i have done/mentioned in the past

as to how to write this stuff into my papers...

need to rest up after such an intense push the past 4 weeks. i had sore back,neck, swollen fingers/wrists, 7 new callouses from this spell. this is a good thing>>>means i am alive & have been busy!

will be creating new digital for output/paint. am thinking about murals/big scrolls now. installation objects as well.


have some great idea for presenting/exhibiting in 08 as well>>>need to look into costs :(

next deadline is a paper

next studio/mentor deadline: nov 14 at sfi.