Stages Sunday!

Sharing a couple of WIP files today for “Stages Sunday”. Sometimes, i forget how influential artist Jim Burns how I imagine spaceships from other worlds or in the distant future. His designs almost always looked elegant, organic and suggested some unimaginable technology.

I used an old iDough model exported as a .obj file and used simple round brushes to further “sculpt” the rasterized model in Photoshop CC. It’s a fun and intuitive way of working. Back in the early 90s, it would have taken me at least a few hours just to mask out the shapes and set up my airbrush to make something like this.

Work In Progress

Stages Sunday!

Still plugging along on this one in my free time. I finally figured out ye olde Divine Proportions tool in Corel Painter XI last night. I never use that stuff, but I recently came across easy to follow derivation of harmonic proportions and root rectangles in Juliette Aristides' Classcial Painting Atelier ebook. Old work that uses that stuff still looks clunky and static to my eye, but I'm curious about the philosophical, symbolic, and psychological underpinnings of the grids.

Opening Receptions at the Richmond Art Center tonight (6-8p)

Opening Reception at the Richmond Art Center tonight from 6-8p in Richmond, California
http://richmondartcenter.org/exhibitions/

Closely Considered – Diebenkorn in Berkeley

Gallery: Main Gallery

Exhibition Dates: Sep 14 – Nov 16, 2014

Opening Reception: Sat, Sep 13, 6 – 8 pm (opening); Sun, Nov 16, 3 – 5 pm (closing)

Artists: Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, Elmer Bischoff, Frank Lobdell, Nathan Oliveira and James Weeks

Frank Lobdell: the Tamarind Prints

Gallery: South Gallery

Exhibition Dates: Sep 14 – Nov 16, 2014

Opening Reception: Sat, Sep 13, 6 – 8 pm

Artists: Frank Lobdell

 

Luminous Space: Paintings by Tom Holland

Gallery: West Gallery

Exhibition Dates: Sep 14 – Nov 16, 2014

Opening Reception: Sat, Sep 13, 6 – 8 pm

Artists: Tom Holland

Social Discourses: In Print

Gallery: Community Gallery

Exhibition Dates: Sep 14 – Nov 16, 2014

Opening Reception: Sat, Sep 13, 6 – 8 pm

Artists: Juan Fuentes, Art Hazelwood, Jos Sances and Jim Nikas