Art Appreciation at the sounds of settling.
I just thought that I would post a painting that I am working on. Hasn't taken me very long so far, maybe 3 or 4 hours, but I am not happy with it quite yet. I like the sky and I really love the moon (I like to paint pictures that make people want to touch them), but I am not happy with the grass. The painting is called "further" after a song by the band longview (all my paintings are inspired by music... every once and a while I will just be listening to a tune and I get this image). The lyrics are:
And the same when autumn comes/Cold Air I breathe in my lungs/Something's new but nothing's changed/Familiar feelings just the same
Soon too the warm air comes by/Lie back and stare at blue skies/Thinking back away and from/When I'll be here and you'll be gone
Further from me
I think now of summers high/And reminisce on past times gone by/Only remembered now in/Earth, trees, the stars that have been there/And there forever held/Kept safe but memories never told/But felt if you went by/In never changing sky
And we'll be gone
Half finished pictures are kind of a systemic problem. It's kind of a pattern I have when I paint, I get about 75 percent of the way done but then stall because I can't make the image look the way that I want to. Maybe if I ever took an art class it might help. Take for example this painting. It is called "passing" (named after a song by garrison starr that had a verse that went: "That boy sittin' over there/With the way he is going/He hasn't got a prayer/And he's probably not even worth knowing"). I started it about six years ago. There is a lot I like about it: the face, the sweater, the glass, and the bar. But I could never get the window in the back ground to work out... it's hard to tell in this picture because it is cropped, but in the original version there is just this big, obnoxious purple rectangle in the background. As a result, it has just been hanging out in a box in the garage waiting for me to get back to it. Oh well!
And the same when autumn comes/Cold Air I breathe in my lungs/Something's new but nothing's changed/Familiar feelings just the same
Soon too the warm air comes by/Lie back and stare at blue skies/Thinking back away and from/When I'll be here and you'll be gone
Further from me
I think now of summers high/And reminisce on past times gone by/Only remembered now in/Earth, trees, the stars that have been there/And there forever held/Kept safe but memories never told/But felt if you went by/In never changing sky
And we'll be gone
Half finished pictures are kind of a systemic problem. It's kind of a pattern I have when I paint, I get about 75 percent of the way done but then stall because I can't make the image look the way that I want to. Maybe if I ever took an art class it might help. Take for example this painting. It is called "passing" (named after a song by garrison starr that had a verse that went: "That boy sittin' over there/With the way he is going/He hasn't got a prayer/And he's probably not even worth knowing"). I started it about six years ago. There is a lot I like about it: the face, the sweater, the glass, and the bar. But I could never get the window in the back ground to work out... it's hard to tell in this picture because it is cropped, but in the original version there is just this big, obnoxious purple rectangle in the background. As a result, it has just been hanging out in a box in the garage waiting for me to get back to it. Oh well!
posted by the aging hipster @ 10:14 PM
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