Art Studio Video: Painting with Acrylics and an Ink Brayer.
A video of me working on a few studies on paper.
I recently shot a little video footage while working on a few studies on paper. In this video I am painting with acrylics on paper, using an ink brayer. I have been using an ink brayer for the last few months as I am trying to find a good feel for a new body of work. I think I am closing in on technique and medium. You will also see me using graphite pencils to create geometric shapes at the end of the video as well. I will be filming a lot of my process and work this year in the studio. Feel free to ask any questions and request specific things that you would like to see! Enjoy.
The Night Feeding Me.
I can not seem to escape what these colors seem to be doing to me in a mentally arousing mix of hues. I have moved forward from my stencil work that has brought me mild success over the last few years and felt led to take a few risks entering back into abstract forms, strokes and flow.
"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary." Picasso
I just walked into the studio tonight, Sept 11th, with a mild Austin heat already causing me to sweat upon entering. An hour prior to the perspiration I was creating a playlist on Spotify, as I always do (no always on Spotify), creating a play list to paint to that is. This late evening holds the sounds of The Helio Sequence, Rogue Wave, Pinback, El Ten Eleven, Faded Paper Figures, Say Hi To Your Mom, Boy & Bear, and We Are Augustines. Of course I took a few self-portrait pics and studio shots for instagram posts at some point tonight or tomorrow morning and now I am encompassed by paint, string, canvas, brushes, pallet knives, paint rags, pictures of Andy Warhol and Jean Michel basquiat (that hang in my studio), a show flyer for William Catling from 9-30-1997 that always inspires and encourages me while I create. William Catling was a professor of mine who had been a major inspiration to myself as an artist and aspiring to be one.
What lies ahead for tonight I do not know. I have three pieces to finish, two on wood and one on canvas. My color pallet for the last few weeks has consistently been addicted to gold, blue's, grey, black, white and a mild pink. I can not seem to escape what these colors seem to be doing to me in a mentally arousing mix of hues. I have moved forward from my stencil work that has brought me mild success over the last few years and felt led to take a few risks entering back into abstract forms, strokes and flow. Leaving all things figurative behind. I have felt the urge or the need to move this way for the last year, but with success in one style comes fear and a lack of change. I truly belive that as an artist in any medium if you do not take risks you will never grow as an artist. I also believe this to be true about life, but that is another story, for another blog, another conversation. Tonight I paint. "A Good artist has less time than ideas. " Martin Kippenberger
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The piece is a reproduction of one of my favorite Michael Halsband photographs of Andy Warhol and Jean Michel Basquiat for my own personal collection.
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/24630559]This is a short video of me working on one of my last pieces.
The spoken word piece I wrote, recorded, edited and produced in 2007.
To visit Michael Halsbands work click here: michaelhalsband.com/ To visit my personal website click here: samo4prez.com
