1.To see by the light of the moon that the snake never wanders far from the garden.

2. To taste poison as the remedy for poison.

3. To be carried by the smell of burning leaves.

4. To listen closely to the gravedigger’s song.

5. To sever the seeds before they grow.

The Unfinished Filmhead

A work in progress among others. A bit of the Wizard of Oz creeping in on the lower left vignette. Large scale works are in progress -but I will be working on this unfinished business at the same time.

World->artist->picture->viewer->world

Recent works up at Mainsite Contemporary Art, Norman, OK

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Research, pens, tracing paper, tape…

Day 1 of actually putting pencil /ink to paper. I’m drawing out the Rococo border. Taking some ideas from from panels done for Chateau de Vore, by Jean Baptiste Oudry. Funny that I had been looking at his work some months back- Oudry specialized in exotic animal paintings. These animal motifs were also incorporated into the more decorative works found at Cahteau de Vore, this is what caught my eye. In my mind, Oudry is a good connection to Bosch as well, since Bosch’s work is teaming with wildlife. 

At this stage there is not much to see, but i’d venture to say it is the critical stage nonetheless. I’m simply putting imagery and ideas in at this point, and making compositional decisions as I go. Color ideas are in my head as a result of looking at some of the Rococo works i mentioned, but nothing is set in stone.  This is the point where i make the decisions and simply keep going, editing and re-structuring will happen throughout. What I’m not posting are the tiny compositional drawings i make in my sketchbook that try to pin down the basic structure of the work.

Major tools at this point: research, pens, tracing paper, tape.