thought paper & studio update

crit theory I paper:

glad i reread deborah email/agenda/dates on papers as i had been prepping for a thought paper based on my current readings. at least i have a jump on the next one.

submitted crit theoryI thought paper on due date . wish i had done it right after residency when it was fresh. however, do'n the review thing was interesting in that i am in a different place now due to the new readings/dvd, museum/gallery viewings, my studio work>>> sorta spun the info & my notes a little differently/gained more.

studio:

have been busy working on the digital paint stuff from the other direction. having explored numerous possibilities on taking painting into digital & creating digital for print & paint i am now outputting some of the paint/digital stuff to print.

did 2 36x36 color ($$$) for 2 images for midterm
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have 14-18 bw prints (24x24>30x30) to use as underpaintings for acrylic.
have tried to take pics at dif stages for ref & trouble shooting/feedback? will post soon

did not mount paper to anything as a wanted to have the option of cutting/collaging or??? in the future.

all are sq & of the same palette.

only 2-4 were decided upon for the midterm, yet for me, i need to have more going so that i can chase tangents as they arise. think that is why i fell into photoshop so easily (layers& undo). i have a few going of the same image to explore sequencing in painting/glazing. so far i am not sure what i think.

may push some a bit further. struggle a little bit on what to keep or loose as i do not want to be just coloring in one of my digital images, yet if i loose the image>>>then what was the point? do i want to retain the identities of both mediums or is it just an internal process.

had two that i use transparent gesso on instead of glossy gel medium. liquitex clear gesso is not clear. well maybe if applied very thin. to me it looks/behaves like matt medium with fine silica/sand thrown in place of pumice or marble dust. the results are that 2 of my 36x36 bw prints had their images highly obscured.

transparency output:
still hunting around/researching options on the frame/electrical aspect to the backlit image idea. not sure if i even like the thought anymore. now the idea brings to mind those illuminated beer signs with that bear paddling a canoe down some mountain stream. my idea would work if it was really big. $$$ & not sure if this is the direction i want to go.

screen saver:
creating a screen saver was suggested by my mentor & is something i am looking into. i have never used them on my cpu >> so i need to get up to speed on this realm before i do more. i do have a fishtank screensaver on one of my desktops which i love. it came with it & has a fry's logo in in that has imprinted the monitor. the reason one has a screensave is to prevent this from happening). monitor calibration issues could be scary to deal with.

next:

now that the groundwork for this semester is done, the creation of exhibition stuff for aib is next.

will bring some of this stuff as required+ prints of what does not come (would be way too much & too big). glenn hirsch's perspective on this is that i should only show the final product & not the "practices. " makes sense & so i may have images,papers & blog book bound & display to show process/documentation of this semester.