Last class of summer 2010, Sept.1

We have a model, let's see how far we can push the idea

of the nude female.

Matisse did in 1907.

See you wed. john.

Painting is dead?

This week let's try a mask image for painting's corpse.
see you wed at 4:30. -john.

August 18 2010 assignment

This week i'd like to try working 2 canvases at once.

Use one as a self portrait and the other as your palette.

see you on Wed. john.

New poem new picture

Say it's 1952

in the midwest

That's a year and place

for you

you're a brickshithouse

from without

rectangular grey

Within

inside only a

darkredorchid

The last of these was

reported

in Lawrence Kansas

Which this ain't

this is Africa

"ooh man, afuckin'

honkey...there's nowhere

to go without these

muthafuckers without

without white...

A bird from the grass

strobes off

crackin' the railside

chamomile scent

limeposts wave, too

Early August

This is the time of Summer when i first notice the season change to come. Sure it's still high season, but early in the morning and late at night i can feel the turn to come.

The cam that turns the weather is of course the same planetary movement around the Sun, but in my world everything is personal and will be until i die, so the weather and season changes effect me and influence my attitude toward my work and existence.

i'm in a show in Fort Point Channel that opens next Thursday August 12 at 12 Farnsworth St.

at 7pm. see you there?--john.

Summer 2010

Time to work on new approaches to the same old stuff.

Artists and writers have a limited amount of ideas to work with and the battle is to find new ways to broach this material and make it fresh and vital.

Here's a new poem:

DRawing From a SUmmer Day

Blue time road west clear

Dog car stop go back

Scratch lose take back cut

Scrape a grand small moment of start over

Final 2 weeks of Spring term

There are several projects that could help your work, why not try one of them?

1. Write a poem and transfer the typography onto a canvas and work from there.

2.Paper mache bas relief with paint and transfered image.

3. Self portrait in monochrome transfer.

4. Just paint.

see you next week. john.