AS PROMISED...

20 SURFACES PREPPED

I'm happy to be in Big100, a one-night cash & carry show next month where everything is $30. It's a benefit for KBOO community radio (where my buddy DJ Tronic hosts a show) and The Oregon Food Bank. The 8x8 surfaces are provided, and we have about 3 weeks to produce up to 20 pieces. I intend to do 20, and use the opportunity as a living sketch book. I'm going to do cityscapes, but in a much looser style, and experiment with different types of backgrounds. I have 6 spraypainted for a beginning- 2 each of 3 colors; 2 with 3 layers of spray adhesive and newspaper, then coated with glaze; 2 that are 3 layers with alternating glazing and newspaper, 2 gessoed with a diagonal stroke, 3 gessoed with some paint mixed in, and the rest gessoed with a regular horizontal stroke. I'm going to add some fun things like receipts and drycleaning tickets to some of the plain glazed ones, maybe try some more watercolor-ish backgrounds, and I think I'll just paint buildings straight onto the newspaper covered ones. My thoughts are only about one step ahead of my hands, as opposed to my normal way of doing cityscapes, where I know what to do in what order to get what I want. I'll post pictures when things begin to shape up :-)