new arrangement for the painting series

Sweet video

This is a sweet video I saw of Foley artists at work. Wish I had this job!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyfH9t8JAuo

Something I didn't do

This was a project my friend Nathan put on. I did some work ie. I did the voice for some of it. Here's the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiWt45ziQng

Recent influences

Kader Attia has been a huge inspiration for me in the way he presents his ideas and the materials and content he chooses. Thankfully Saatchi Gallery has a posting of my favorite sculpture ever, which he did.

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/kader_attia.htm?section_name=unveiled

Paula Rego has been a huge influence for the newest body of my work. I enjoy her sardonic humor and the way she "moves around the paint". Specifically, I was intreagued by her elaborate set-ups and models she created to get the right depiction of light for her pieces.

Newer pics, old models

Here are some new pics of the models I worked on before the firehall.

This is the first model I made. It is a replica of an abandoned Eastern European border patrol post.

I'm thinking of adding the blue crepe paper like I did in the firehall but, I might just as well replace it with some kind of clear wrapper of some kind.

This is the second replica I worled on, after the tollbooth and before the Firehall. It's a replica of a New England Mill from the turn of the previous century. It utelizes wooden doweling to give anyone the ability to rotate the waterwheel. It was an experiment I was trying to see if I could make gears out of simple household objects and tape - it worked.

Here is a close up of the siding I made on the house with strips of cardboard. Note the gear mechanism on the bottom left of the model.



Top down view into the open roof

model project 2010

So here's the deal. I'm going to be making a whole bunch of models out of cardboard. This was inspired by the model I made previously (remember the one for the painting bear pit) and the artist Todd Tremeer. Anyway, these models will be the inspiration for a series of paintings on camoflauge and burlap. So far I have made three (and it has taken a bloody lot of my time) but I'm posting the one that is most recent. In fact, it's so recently made it's not even finished!

Front view of the soon to be completed New England heritage firehal # 512

Inside is gutted so far, however, I am thinking about installing a second floor and fire poll. Who knows how this is going to end up!

I hope to have this completed by next week so I can start doing sketches and paintings of all the ones I made so far. I'm Excited!