Digital Paintings
Acrylics
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Animations
Sound
Video
3-D

-Acrylix on Wax

I used to purchase old records from a second-hand store.At one $dollar a pop I would by 10 or so at a time.I couldnt wait to get home and play them,searching for the perfect sample to dissect.Out of the 10 records,at least 2 had the right sauce for my hip hop food(check the Sound section for exhibit A).Something about not being able to toss the duds in the garbage right away left me with loads of sample-less records,useless weight,those suckers are heavy when its time to lug them around...

In the summer of '05,the lack of extra cash for canvas and nothing immediate to paint on had me looking at the stacks of sample-less records as new open surface.The concept of creating visual art on a surface that holds audio art is intriguing to me.
When you and I were our best I sometimes go there and think about what we had and know it was special

In time all things come back.Full circle.The weight of the past is heavy and it hunches backs.Make sure to bring your lantern and take care to guard your eye.All things come to center stage in time.

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-Constructs

Staring at my older paintings day in and day out (they cluttered the living room of my apartment)gave me an idea.I wasnt satisfied with what I had painted,I figured my skill level had advanced a bit more since I first painted them,I thought "theres no way I want those pieces glaring at me forever"so I began to break them up into asymmetrical chunks and randomly rearranging the pieces of thin wood panel with nuts and bolts.I sanded down the rough edges and after the dust settled I applied paint to them....My "constructs" are the result.

 

 

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-Wood panels/Canvas

Random Machinations from channel 537

Acrylics

For a long part of my art life I kept away from painting or using brushes.The only experiences I had with paints were of the kindergarden variety when the teacher would hand out the goop in little tupperware jars or at home with a "SaVons" back to school $1.99 paint kit.I remembered the frustration I felt trying to apply the caked paint and "activating" it with little drops of water.The feeling of not having that accuracy I already felt with a crayon or pencil.That useless little plastic brush with the frayed bristles...the whole thing really turned me away from painting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

While working behind a cash register many years later,a regular customer with whom I had only shared cashier/customer talk with came in wearing old jeans and a sweatshirt completely covered in multicolored splashes and splots, some areas so thick with old paint they were like plastic plates sticking to him.As he came to the register I pointed out his clothes and after he told a joke about how he had been painting a wall but got most of the paint on him we began to talk about art.

He told me he was a muralist and that he was in the middle of repairing the old Farmer John mural in East L.A.I told him how I had worked in a factory in that area for about 4 years and that I was familiar with that mural.(I passed by there once and marveled at the huge city block long canvas and thought of how long it must have taken to create and what the artist must have felt when painting it,I also remembered wanting to speed away from that place as soon as I got there because of the cooked pig stench wafting about.)I told him I was into drawing and he mentioned that he was looking for an extra hand to finish up the mural,he asked me if Id like the job.I confessed to him that I had never really worked with paints but I would bring him my portfolio and that if he approved I would work with him.

I dont usually engage in small talk,I find I have nothing clever or witty to say in such small spans of time (not that if I was given longer spans of time Id say something witty but you understand..)but I am glad I made the comment about his painted clothes that day.

His name is Philip Slagter and he is the man who taught me what I know about painting,about applying colors,about mixing colors,about the right consistency of the medium and the proper brushes to use.About blending techniques and tricks..pretty much all of it..

I worked with him for the next couple of years and standing side by side with him on those walls I learned many things.His unique style changed my way of thinking about using paint to create art.He broke away that wall that had been built up around "paint" due to my initial experiences with it.The technique I use when working on my digital art today is the same one I use when painting with acrylics,the same technique Philip taught me.