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April 30th, 2018

4/30/2018

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I (almost) finished my painting on Malpais National Monument over the weekend. Here it is!
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I still need to clean off the under drawing. That's what the thin white lines are. And the colors in this picture are a little off since I took it at night. But I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Here's my inspiration. It's a scan from my original photograph, but you get the idea.
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Another new Parks Project piece.

4/18/2018

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This is one of the pieces I'm working on now. Barring any process disasters, it will be part of my Parks Project. It's based on a photo I took in El Malpais National Monument in New Mexico. It's the first piece I've done on a full sized door for a while. Excuse the slightly wonky pictures. It's hard to get a good picture of a piece this size when it's laying on the floor.
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Here it is right after I poured the paint and added the rock salt.

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This is after a couple more pours and a bit of drying time.
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And this is where the piece currently stands, dry and re-stretched. Somehow I managed to warp a door, which I've never done before. But it lays nice and flat now.

It's always interesting to see how a piece changes as it dries. The red here mellowed out quite a bit, which I was happy with. The red paint was nowhere near that red when I mixed it. 
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Finished a New Piece

4/12/2018

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I just finished a new piece in my Parks Project series. It's called Sequoia National Forest No. 1. Yes, I went to a park created to celebrate the world's biggest trees, and painted a succulent less than and inch and half across. Typical.

I did a pretty good job taking in progress photos with this one. Usually I don't think to do that until the end.
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I've done some pinstriped paintings before and wanted to try it again. The first step was to put down some artist's tape.
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Next I mixed up a chromatic black, thinned it down with water, and poured it over the surface. The textured bits shown in the picture is rock salt to give it some mottling.
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Here it is after it dried, with the tape still on (left) and without the tape (right). I was surprised by how well the tape blocked out the paint. I thought there would be more bleeding around the edges.

Next, I did another round of staining with a chromatic black. I used more water in the second batch of paint so that the stripes would still show. (I forgot to take a picture after this step).
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Then I started painting in the plant. 
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Here's the finished piece next to my source image! I think the end product captures the feeling of the moment when I took the picture. I was clambering over the rocks in the Tule River at the time and just happened to look down to see this little flower. It was a quiet pause in the middle of a bunch of activity.
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