Booth Show at Pizzadili Vineyard & Winery
Pizzadili Vineyard is hosting a big wine & beer festival Sunday, October 23, 2001, at their vineyard in Felton, DE. The gallery I show at in Milford, Angelucci’s, reserved five 10′ x 10′ booths, one of which I’ll be showing my latest paintings in. Come on out…Dogfish Head beer with be there, as well as, numerous other area breweries and vineyards from Delaware. It all starts at noon!
New Print Design
My very first fabric pattern with Spoonflower.com. This design is called Blue Elephant!
More Intense Colors
Sometimes I sit back and look at one of my paintings and wish the colors were a little more intense. This usually only occurs with an oil painting. At first they are pretty vibrant, but as oils dry, the colors fade a bit. I’ve learned that through glazing, which is an old technical of painting layers and layers of thin paint, letting each layer dry before applying the next, helps build color and depth, but oils never give me the vibrancy of acrylics. Unfortunately, it’s hard to get the smooth blending you get with oils, with acrylics, which is really important if you want smooth tones in person’s face. So the trick I’ve been applying lately is to lay down thin layers of acrylics, making sure not to leave any kind of impasto texture in the paint. After I’ve built up a lot of rough imagery, which acrylic tends to do, and bright color, I then go ahead and apply my oils. It’s important to make sure I am all done with the acrylic stage before I do this. You can’t put acrylics over oil. Oils need to breath and are fat. They will crack right though the thin, fast drying acrylics. I don’t even cover over all the acrylic. I only use the oils in areas where I want a smoother, softer look.
If you don’t want to under coat in acrylics (or can do this in addition to the undercoating), there another technique that will brings those colors back to life after they dry. It’s called “oiling out”. It’s when you go over the whole painting with an oil medium to bring the colors back up. I work with water soluble oil paints and like to use Artisan Water Mixable Painting Medium to do the job.
New Shop on Society 6
Just set up a new shop on Society6.com. A print of this painting is now available there.
The Dirty Show 12
My painting Dear Francis is currently showing at The Dirty Show 12, an international erotic art exhibition, in Detroit, MI. The following is the info and history from their site about the show and how it got started…
The mission of The Dirty Show is to promote, publish and propagate erotic art in all forms. This is done in the form of an erotic art exhibition which has become one of the largest in the world. Since it’s inception at the turn of the century, the founders have been entertaining and enlightening the masses with a delightful event called, The Dirty Show. Held every Valentine’s Weekend, the show features a large number of artists, from first-timers to the famous at their dirtiest. While primarily focusing on area artists, The Dirty Show is open to artists from anywhere in the world, providing the work is good, erotic, they can get it here.
HISTORY
The show was created by Jerry Vile in 2000, who was quickly joined by Jeremy Harvey. Shortly thereafter, Glenn Barr added his expertise. The first showing was in the expansive offices of Orbit Magazine. The show featured about 40 artists, with performance by Lady Pain and her slave. It was an instant success, far too popular for the space allotted. The following year, an additional day was added to try to split and thin the crowd. However, while the idea was good in theory, the crowd had grown and the crowds around the nude buffet were painfully crowded.
In 2002, show moved to the Bankle Building in Detroit proper, thanks to the generosity of artist Camilo Pardo. The artist list had grown considerably, and so had the viewing public. The newly formed Spag Burlesque Troupe was the featured performance artists, as well as dance and spoken word. Despite it being nearly three times as big as the previous space, it was a bit crowded.
In 2003, the event was held in the in the Museum Of New Art. This more public showing created controversy, and the largest attended art event in the history of the museum and many believe it was the most popular art opening in Detroit history. Despite the immensity of the space, it was packed. Performance included Spag and Helles Belles as well as the Gorilla Girl, Peep Show, puppetry and spoken word. Unfortunately, the Museum was forced to leave the space shortly after the show. The show also launched its first website.
For most of 2003, the Dirty Show could not find a space to hold the event. Fortunately, reason prevailed (namely the gallery director left in disgust) and in 2004, the Dirty Show landed at the Tangent Gallery and Hastings St. Ballroom—perhaps the largest art space in the Detroit. Created both permanent and temporary walls to showcase works from over 100 artists, ranging in age from 18 to 84. While mostly Detroit area artists, contributions came in from all over the USA and a piece from Paris, France. The space featured a stage professional lighting and for the first time people were able to see the performance artists (Spag, Helles Belles, Causing a Scene, Jimmy Doom, Ted Telvite and the Great Poocasso). The Dirty Show became the largest event in Tangent/Hastings history on both nights and was called “Detroit’s best attended art show” by the Metro Times and is now considered one of the largest .
In 2005, The Dirty Show opened its Call To Artists to everyone, everywhere, the result was a huge success. The show drew 1000′s of submissions which led to a showcase of over 400 pieces of art by over 250 artists from 20 countries. We also had the largest attendence by artists at the show in its history, from across the USA, and as far away as Italy. The show was extended to 4 days and the patrons kept coming, and coming…
RJW
A shift from my usual style of late, but very reminiscent of some paintings I was doing many years ago. I’d been longing to go back to a more painterly look but maintain the use of childhood things.
Dear Francis
Dear Francis,
It’s been an interesting summer/fall to say the least. Back in June, I discovered I have an orange tree growing in my head. I thought about having it removed right away, but the fruit wasn’t ripe yet, so removal is scheduled for November 17th. It’s an unusual type of orange tree, not like your Florida sunshine one, that goes by the nickname of a “Flying Dragon” and produces very sour oranges that have a late harvest. Shortly after that discovery I found my husband to be addicted to swallowing flowers; all sorts of varieties, though mostly roses. He had been hiding it from me for some time. It was only when the neighbors came to me with revealing photos of flowerless rose bushes and that I couldn’t find the dried flowers I had been using as markers in my cook books, did I begin to put one and one together. I did the only thing one could do when reveal with such an alarming thing. I grabbed my grandfather’s rifle off the wall and pulled my husband’s most beloved possession from his clutched fingers, took it out to the woods, and shot it! It was this God forsaken bunny that had driven him to flower swallowing in the first place. I thought, maybe at last, things might settle down for a while. They settled for about a week or two, until I came home one day to find my husband with his head in his hands on our front step. His Coin Giver had found out about the flower swallowing and dismissed him from The Garden. All is not lost though; I have buyers lined up for these oranges growing in my head. Apparently, they make tasty candies for German children. Hope your summer and fall weren’t too unusual. Yours Always, Cassandra
The “Guardian Of Bravery” Interview
A few days ago this California based on and off line magazine contacted me for an interview for their blog. The interview can be found in its entirety HERE.
Juxpapoz!
If you grab the October 2010 issue of Juxtapoz, you’ll see my painting in an ad for mimesisartprints.com. Buy a print. They are really high quality.
