station to station...

Alright- so i been busy in the studio, working on the three new paintings...I finally started the third of my paintings yesterday, concentrating on a faily taut line and just pushing the lines outwards...

when i came back in today, it was dry so I was initially tempted to leave the red as it was and start adding the next colour...in the end I decided to continue with the red and stick with my original idea...This took me a good chunk of today to finish the layer...

Next was the second painting,which was at this stage when I started today...

so i turned it upside down and then put another coat on

this is a picture of all of them together- not in any particular order- in this particular instance I was painting the front one and I looked around the edge to see the other two, paitiently waiting their turn....

same three paintings, but this time so you can see most of them, save for a couple of chairs...

this is me, goofing with paint on my head...dont try this at home, kids!

obviously more progress photos as they come to hand....stay tuned!

the smash of glass and the rumble of boots...

So Im well and truly bunkered down in the studio, producing new work for my painting studio, the late nights have begun again as we slide towards the end of term and holiday madness...More on my new paintings in a second...First I wanna show you a new stencil work I did for the Australian Stencil Art Prize- now if you know my other work or have read previous posts on my blog, I did an oil painting on the whole atlas thing and the painting I ended up doing for the stencil prize became Atlas II... The original idea about atlas was that sometimes being an abstract painter was a blessing and a curse- when it felt like a curse, I got to feeling atlas-like, that abstract painting was my burden to bear, especially when you get asked every five seconds to justify your work...anyway with stencils I feel that I can get away with abstraction a little more just for the fact that it is aesthetically pleasing...so the Atlas I did for the stencil prize has a lightness to it- I quite enjoyed making it and it's nice to paint like this on canvas. So anyway, if it doesnt get selected as a finalist, chances are that it will be for sale if anyone is interested...

As i mentioned earlier, I've started a new set of paintings- They are based on some of the research I have been doing into Buddhism. I started with just a general curiosity and it went from there. I came across the idea of the "Three Jewels" that are the foundation of Buddism...The Sangha which translates to the Buddhist community that you become a part of, The Dharma or the Teachings and the Buddha- this refers to the Buddha but also the potential Buddha nature that exists within all of us...I want to make it clear that I am not all of sudden pushing a religion or have experienced an instant conversion, but I am reading a considerable amount and what I have read makes alot of sense. This is the first painting of the three and I have posted earlier photos of it in previous posts, but now it has really started to take on a life of its own...This is titled "Sangha" and is representative of the idea of the Buddhist community, in part. This series of paintings are quite big, they measure approx 60"x48" and the style of painting really works in this size format.

Obviously this is just the first of the three- I have started the next one, "Dharma" but I'll post pics next time as that one is just starting to get going...I'll post more pics of this one as I do more on it...