Decided to work on paintings all day... finished two; one of which has taken forever to finish... People usually think of like, huge paintings when someone mentions a painting, but whew, the little ones are super difficult... same with sculptures...but I do like the big paintings every once in a while...
Did a bunch of work on these paintings as well:
The brain-man: This idea was a concept I drew with my little 2nd Cousin back in like...2005 when we were going to a beach in England...I sort of made it into something completely different... His drawing was of a brain man with scissor hands and sponge-bob-like feet; my painting is way darker and deeper. Its like a business-man with a brain as a head holding a popsicle stick with copper wire wrapped around it in a sort of twilight zone like swampish and almost inter-lightbulbian surrounding...the final concept is that the brain dude is harnessing all this electricity from the sun, two trees, and shooting it out into pollution... The trees are pretty crazy as well in the sense that they are more like a bunch of trees mirrored into thick trees...there are rocks in front of him and his head is almost burning out into a sort of smoke halo... I had a BB Gun at the old Oakland house and shot three or four holes directly above the head...and looking at them now, pretty equidistant...anyways... coming along nicely...gonna touch up some yellows, add the electricity and its done.
The chupacabra: Based on some wine by an Arizona Vineyard [Caduceus Cellars] and a similar painting to the last days of Hendrix, but almost opposite... This is the one with the Jesus faces...so far three of them; and today I worked on the Satan-like face.... The first thing on this painting finished was the fire portion... Then I did a general outline with the things I wanted to include: a mirror, water, the sky, a crow and the sun... After those got polished up a bit, I added four wine bottles... Eventually, where there was a valley-like vibe above the water, a fetus appeared. So, now its looking like: a fire with Satan above and Jesus above that... move to the right a bit and there is the hint of the first crow connected to Satan and a white crow slightly positioned more fluidly over the darker one...above those guys is another little half Jesus-face in the clouds...under them, which I worked on today, is an old Native symbol for nightmares [mirror is near by], the owl. Now, since this was a Caduceus inspired painting, I decided to add a sort of staff, but instead of the logo, the snakes are moving off the staff into [see next portion]...mhm...anyways, I decided to make the owl[s] directly over the staff today as if they are reaching for the staff...move over more and there is the fetus head/ridge area...where the brain is, there is a mirror, inside of the mirror is going to be a reflection and dangling off the fetus head is a grapevine [snakes as in power] the ocean that the fire is contained in is seen in a rougher light through the mirror...then the final portion has the bottles, the waves washing ashore, a hint of a stiletto, and a big breasted wonderfully shaped woman behind all of that...but her face is not going to be exposed...then the Sun.... so, today, I added the wine inside the bottles, the owl, and the initial satan... The idea is going to be a slightly shifting theme with all of the elements that surrounded the wine that inspired the idea. There are going to be blankets with plaid as well as a few more figures...I really like how its coming along.
The older metaphor for power one: This was in a bag with a bunch of other unfinished but basically done paintings; this one is more of an abstract comparison to nature and human nature... There is a cross in the back right corner behind a purple tree, and it gets freakier from then on...
The photoshop inspired one: loosely based on this older painting made in Guam turned into Photoshop Piece turned into future Warlock Album cover [see below]; I decided to include it in the "scary set." I finished another one of these the other day; but, this one is going to be the ugliest concepts put into the coolest of paintings... Worked on the teeth today....also turned to little horse looking thing on the bottom left into a bear attacking someone [silhouette-style] and added a screw as well as a stretched gas mask...
This is the photoshop inspired one's album cover triplet art being:
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