Sunday, May 18, 2008

Painting with Edna

This is a continuation of the painting we worked on a couple of weeks ago. [entry on 5-1-2008]

Painting without Progress, 59″ x 54″ (150cm x 137cm), acrylic on polyester canvas

What we decided to do this session was bring into focus the seven areas that seemed to work independently. They were the areas we had taped off at the end of the last session, and had intended to cut out and stretch separately. Simply painting a frame around each area didn’t work. We spent the day working on the idea of framing the areas within the painting. We worked in each of the seven areas as well in the space around them. (Yes, those are push pins into the painting.) This is where things stand. Edna took the painting to her studio so it could baffle her for a week.

While we painted, we had to remind ourselves that we had arrived at this point by abandoning the initial large painting and simply working on several small paintings to be cut out later.  Now we felt like not cutting out the smaller images from the larger image.  Personally, I feel I’m in an unfamiliar land without a guide, map or compass.  Edna is more comfortable. 

I took a photo of the painting and put it through some photo editing processes to see what they may suggest.  Here they are.

2 Channel, Six Colors

3 Channels

4 Channels

5 Channels



Increasing the Chroma

Raising the Chroma Darkening the Lower Values

Some Computer Programer’s Idea of Pointillism (more like an areaism)

Another Kind of Manipulation (which is a kind of a festival of budding cells)

Negative of the Previous Image (the same festival at 1 AM)

A “Stained Glass” Manipulation

I think these manipulations reveal another decision we made, and that was to keep the colors low chroma and, for the most part, in a narrow value range.
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Sunday, May 4, 2008

Painting with Edna

A Painting Experiment, 12″ x 10″ (30cm x 25cm), acrylic on hardware cloth

Another Painting Experiment, 12″ x 10″ (30cm x 25cm), acrylic on hardware cloth

A couple of weeks ago we tried painting on hardware cloth.  Neither of us thought it was too engaging.
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Friday, May 2, 2008

Painting with Edna

Part of the Plane of Contention whereon Edna and I Have Been Struggling to Organize Shape, Color and Texture into a Mutally Satisfying Painting, canvas 59″ (150cm) high, acrylic on polyester canvas

Tentative Painting, 13″ x 24″ (33cm x 61cm). acrylic on polyester canvas

Another Tentative Painting, 22″ x 18″ (56cm x 46cm). acrylic on polyester canvas

Yet Another Tentative Painting, 12″ x 18″ (30cm x 46cm), acrylic on polyester canvas

Since the first of the year, Edna and I have spent several days working to establish an approach to  painting that would capture some of the feeling that we created in the drawings.   We tried painting together a few years back, but the results, while interesting, were not satisfying.  We feel more encouraged with these recent results, painted over the corpse of an earlier joint effort.

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Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Exhibiting Three Desert Landscapes at Art is OK Gallery

 
Chuck Dunbar
will exhibit
three
Big New Mexico Inspired Landscapes
(broiling sun, hot rocks, prickly pear)
at
Art Is … OK & Company Gallery & Sculpture Garden
3301 Menaul NE #28
Albuquerque, NM 87107
505-883-7368
Opening Friday October 5, 2007, 6-9 PM
Show runs to December 31, 2007
 
 
 
Cultivating Flowers in the Desert, 60″ x 40″ (152cm x102cm), acrylic on polyester canvas
 
 
 
 
Desert Rocks Roast in the Sun, 60″ x 40″ (152cm x102cm), acrylic on polyester canvas
 
 
 
 
Prickly Pears Pose Shadows to the Desert, 60″ x 40″ (152cm x102cm), acrylic on polyester canvas

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