NEW ART PROJECTS GOIN ON?

No, my acrylics dictated what I could do and couldn't, back in the day. I remain an oils person.

But JLN got beyond that for his purposes.

Yes, yes fm--we know that.

Have you tried whitewash. It's cheap and you can slap it on quick with an 8 inch brush or, better still, get her indoors to do it with a 30/7 and have a few hours peace.

Thats how I remember them also. We had to use them in many illustration classes and one of my airbrushes got clogged with em and Ive not used the damn paints since the 1980's

There was this entire section in June 2010 issue of AMERICAN ARTIST about all the new Acrylics from Sennelier to Winsor NEwton

american artist, I used to subscribe to that...

I have used Strathmore water color paper as well as arches. It seems a bit whiter, but my lighting is bad in this room so I'm not 100% sure about that. What I have right now is actually a spiral bound pad of 140lb cold press paper. It has very fine perforations at the top so you can tear out the pages and not tell that it was torn out of a pad. I use it quite a bit for my smaller works (It's a 9x12 spiral pad). It holds up pretty well but tends to curl as it gets more and more soaked.

Ive been doing some still lifes and I found that painting a subject in a series of triptychs makes an interesting composition. Im now working on "sizing up" some canvases from 16X20 to 3ftX4ft

That's nothing fm. A piece of cake.

I'm working on sizing-up a bunch of American dudes who fit into a certain set of categories. Elderly. Parleying out-of-date paper qualifications. Own computers. Materialists. Control freaks. Mixed up. Diffident about ladies garments.

I had previously been trying to size-up ladies but gave it up as a bad job. It was easy when I started out because ladies were kept on low wages and looked to men to provide them with a few luxuries.

The thing about trypyches is that they are directional. The two wings, or flaps if you use hinges to render a semblence of artistic unity, say something significant about the central focus in relation to time or space. A sort of biography in a glance. (see Rembrandt).

I'm working on three 30x40 acrylics now, and have two smaller acrylics showing in a (juried) group exhibition (SunDust Gallery) in Mesa Arizona. This gallery, together with my University, may be my major exhibit outlets for the forseeable future.

Can you keep us up to date on these projects? I love the story telling narrative of the triptych form. Could you document and photograph them in various stages of development? Or is this too forward and blasphemous against the creative process?

Pretty please say yes to my request!

Ive done big watercolors and guache , but never oils. I love the smell of oils in the morning. Have you done still lifes JL? Its kind of a first for me so Im staying on a more abstract path rather than my usual mechanical styles

Sure, but I havent yet gotten the spark to upload stuff to photobucket. I did upload a painting I did that won a "Patrons choice" but when I relooked at it, it got dumped by the carrier. So I guess these are only temporary hostings eh?

Id like to share more but I only recently got adequate at even photoing paintings. SInce Im mostly a watercolorist, I only thought of photoing some of them after I framed them and the light was reflecting off the glass.

Ive been toying with the idea of taking a photo class at the Cecil County Md community college. They have a good photo and graphic program.

Yeh Ill try in the near future, but I dont think Ill have any photos from this set in process. Whenever I get going I sometimes keep painting for a day or more .

I'm kind of stumped here. I just completed this painting (8X10 acrylic) as a way of a refresher. It's been a while since I attempted acrylics, most of my latest stuff has been in dyes and watercolor and even that has been a while ago. As always I welcome critiques, but where I am most stuck at the moment is a title. I already have a color pencil drawing of a lion that is titled 'The King' and just calling it 'The Lion' seems un-imaginative.

Any help would be appreciated.

How about "Are you gonna eat all of that?"

or

"Its Good to be the king"

Didn't sell anything from the two aforementioned shows. I've just submitted (and accepted) another for a third show. Wish me luck.

Good luck, kiddo...

Good LUCK!!

Good luck, JL!

I like 'Are You Going to Eat All of That' It can't be 'It's Good to be the King' I can never hear that line without hearing Mel Brooks in 'History of the World'

You may use it with my complements

JL---good going, youre becoming known in the juried art world.

The lion's eye is perfect--and I choose the term carefully.