Bodoni Painting :: Day 3 & 4

28May07

Here’s some progress over the last couple of sessions. Still needs a lot of work. This quarter I’ve been trying to relate Bodoni with music. Looking at the typeface reminds me of some of the sheet music from taking piano lessons as a kid and also from some of the choral groups I had been in high school and college. I imagine I’m going to be too frustrated with the color (as I most definitely am now) and will end up mostly being black and white with some of the color popping. We’ll see. The one thing I try to “meditate” on is something that my favorite painting professor/mentor D.P. Warner would say(imagine old hippy, Jack Nicholson/Nick Nolte lookalike in tight jeans with cowboy boots, Southwestern patterned button-up, big gut, balding on top/long in back, most amazing drummer). He would always tell me to…”arrive at it.” I love that concept of “arrival” in art and design. We want results right away and, at times, it needs time and mistakes and going back to the beginning. Things can’t be forced, but then I guess there are deadlines. As long as you can start with a complete open canvas and are willing to really throw it out there, all the elements will fuse together somehow.

day 4/flipped back

day 4/flipped

day 3

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