nitzism: July 2012

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

"Dermis Study"

'skin' like surface created by layered glazes to masked of sections of a panel

This is a process I'm am revisiting now.
My intention with this manner if working is more informed and deliberate than 15 years ago.

Sunday, July 29, 2012

Resin pour

First one in a while, since moving to SR.

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Studio Shot

Reconfiguring this crowded space to accommodate the next phases of the work.

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Progressive Title

Testing multiple image posting

Towering and Flowering 2

Test content

Title: Towering and Flowering 1

Content: Testing this iPhone app

"The studio as a kind of psychosis"

IT IS IMPORTANT never to forget how crazy painting is. People who buy paintings, or who write about them, tend to think painting begins in the cosmopolitan world of museums and art galleries, and that its meanings are explored in departments of art history. But painting is born in a smelly studio, where the painter works in isolation, for hours and even years on end. In order to produce the beautiful framed picture, the artist had to spend time shut up with oils and solvents, staring at glass or wooden surfaces in turn. Painting is peculiar in that respect. Writers and composers are much closer to the finished product: their words or notes appear instantly and cleanly on the page-there is no struggle forming the letters A,B,C, or writing a dotted 1/2 note or an 1/8 note-but painters have to work in a morass of stubborn substances.
James Elkins, "What Painting Is", pg 147

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