Thurday on the art sceen and general by arlo moon

Ok friends I am here again with an update on things.  Ok who the hell is reading this really? lol.  Well this week has been hectic with all the deadlines that there were.  I am not going to get the submission for the Phili show done it was almost there.  I wish I wasn't so damn lazy or its a ton at one time actually so maybe its better time managment I do have a full time job and ot hopefully and kids a family and then art all the time so its a bit.  I wish I had have done it only a few days earilier.  One problem is that themed shows are cool to the person who is going to the art show.  I can see that cause your like ok I know whats about in a way but its hard when you make stuff that you like and then your like well ok I do want to show more and go to other cities at least my art will.  I did find a gallery that would let me send the art to them and if it didnt sell then they would just charge me to send it back after the show.  I dont know how unique this is. But hopefully not as a practice because that is cool.  So there is that.  I really cant blame the theme thing but its like ok what the hell do I make and when you usually deal with non-representational abstract its like its counter-object in a way.  Now lets make mostly that and then lets fit a theme.  One solution is to only try to fit my art into the shows that matches the art I am doing. Yes friends I have thought of this before you say it.  Ok your not responding here...lol...  But then I wonder what is the limit of shows you can have.  I would have been on time if it was only a few days more.  I was working on some theme stuff for the fall theme for the 83 hop show so that is a break from what I usually do.  So this is where the extra stuff comes in.  I worked on that and a painting for a show I was closing on this wednesday at Divine Chiropactic.  It was a one man show.  Last weekend was a long one which I like because I feel like on the weekend it was long and then that is a good feeling because you dont get back to work in a blip its like you were away, kind of nice.  I stayed up both friday and saturday night all night and worked on one oil dragon painting for the 83 gallery show it is larger than 16 x 20 and came out good.  Of course there is room to make it better I am going to try again on that.  I also worked on like 4 smaller paintings for the same show and then the one for Divine as I mentioned.  I worked on taking some of the drawings that I have been working on for a week or so since granny was sick it makes me have to watch Zach my son more so that is good to spend time with him but hard to work on painting or god forbid sculpture.  So I started drawing more and then this last week I worked on making some stencils because I am influences by Joss Parker a pop artist here in Columbus.  I knew about the ideas of pop art because I know some about Andy Warhol but Joss is a friend and I have been thinking that is a need style.  I have tried spary paint before never could get a feel for it except for painting skulls or my old band name back in Las Cruces under the bridges there but for the most part it was like fuck that because I never considered it useable for making art in general.  I know that seems narrow minded but my father is an oil painter and it just wasnt presented to me to be at the same level.  But there you are its all about what you do with the tools you have.  Anyway in conversations with Joss even on the very first day I met him I was intreged to the process. I love a good process.  I like the stencils made of paper but then after a few times of painting on them they become harder and can be reused.  I find that ever since Andy Warhol info to be very interesting.  The abilty to reproduce is almost on the polar opposite of what I usually do so that is crazy.  Anyway...blah blah blah here... I was experimenting on this process.  I made a smaller attacking dog stencil which I have used now a few llike 15 times.  Both drawing a version of the origional again from my sketch book . then I made a large dragon version and attempted to cut that out.  Its wierd if you havn't made a stecil before because its like you make a drawing and after you get one done you realize that you cant cut it all out because it falls apart or moves when you paint it   ex.  with spray paint.  I finaly realized its a series of stencils.  I knew this for the colors but basically what I was doing there is the detail out line...  that is why when Joss is posting  R and D and the copier I was ok.... its very good to post things it helps me   so the design then like a series of copies for the different parts.  or is it its not down all the way..  but at least two for now  think if it was a square so one square for the whole line drawing then a slit style line drawing stencil for high lights.... or is it a negititve for the square..as in the actual square bing not there at all you paint that and the solid square is ...  ok you get the picture here...     I did try to make a detailed dragon large size and I only cut out the head and the neck  it was a pain to get that done actually only to have it suck.  Either it wasn't painted on enough yet or what ... its like stained glass as for the design to have the whole thing like having to have a trim to hold it together.  I wondered if you could just tape it down or better I wondered I know at Walmart they have a sticker maker its like 20 dollars and the stickers incert is like 10 dollars...I was that is cool but what stickers would you make.. well I was thinking ...if you take your design and make it a sticker and then just stick it on the canvas or surface then that would keep it down to the surface but then you need to cut it anyway so there is that... Or another possiblity ...damn I could go on and  on.. here  anyway I worked on that ....

another problem I discovered when I was ex. with spray paint.  I paint in a basement so its close quarters all ready and oil paint smells bad enough but spray paint is way worse.  In small amounts no problem but if your learning it its a bit early to hold back.  So there is that.  A great advantage is that it drys quick.  Disadvantage is that the colors are limited to what they make...maybe there is a ton. 

so that lead me to an interesting idea.. basically air blush so you can use house paints or mixes to get the list of variations on the color. 
combine this with the realism idea that I got back about three months ago of using a picture on a computer zoomed in at 800 persent then you look at the picsols...cant spell...do it you will see that there is a ton of color variations.... so ..I was talking to Nick Stull another artist who is bad ass and I was like damn I cant mix colors anyway so that would be hard to try to do some crazy shit like that he was like what you do is go to home depo or lows and get the sample color sheets that have ...this gives you a ton of grey ..... he used it in a great piece maybe more to get the color instead of all painting it..  I know he can mix so I wont go there but that was a great idea I did do that..
but back to what i was saying....

combine the realism to computer to pixal layout and the idea of mass production of pop art  not so much the content.. it could be pop content not important here... then air brush it cause you can have the variation of color.  here the kicker....
seperated each picel by one space... so on a grid...its all sperated.... for instance its like 30 pics. for an eye...I counted it..lol... yeah I said it 30 per eye of varing colors lighter and darker grays or what have you .... then you get done with one face lets say....
ok make another layout then over lap them.... 

then a way crazy part...do 20 then over lap them its 20 faces all together....maybe too much... but

so then I was looking at Joss's piece pez which I own.. and he used a pizza pan for the back ground ...ok he is a master or something cause I was like small dots that crazy if its spary paint cause how can you get that with out it running...or ...its a trip... I was combine that with  the layout idea and only high light the ones with the certain color....so one for each variation and you would come out with a

pop process of mass production but of photo realistic pieces .... so like the supper realism of the past of course they didnt use a computer to lay it out but what the hell its another tool.. 

its a ton of time and my wife said ...ok why dont you make one as in one face....get that done before you go all that way..

anyway this week I had a ton of stuff to get done and I finally got two pieces for phili that isnt going to get there now.  I tore down a show at Divine and painted for a show coming up at 83 and was troubled at work for a while there but its back to normal with a new ideal on what is important. 

Well until we meet again friends...  there is the upcoming shows on saturday at cs gallery that I have a spot outside on...I guess James Kelly who is really great is showing for the month show ...so that is cool and of course the upcoming shows there on wednesday and the next 83 gallery show and man I hope to get in to a show at the pop shop in Cleveland..and build this shit up right... to a network of galleries...ok Joss dont trip every one can do that you didnt do that first....ok you did give me that idea..but   so note every body ....showing in one city is cool but showing in 9 cities is better right...fuck why not.  ok I haven't quiet got there yet but have to get this shit down more and then get a mechine built... we will see.... now I blog instead of making art..lol.... talk toyou soon

currently as of saturday 9th of october 2010 art happenings and such

Hello.  This week had a "table show" at CS gallery and it was interesting because I showed up and it was

fun in a way cause there were 3 other 83 gallery people and a new clay artist which had some really nice pieces at the usual 300 dollars not too bad as far is what is expected...anyone who thinks that is really high try to make some its not brain surgery but its harder than you think.  Anyway we had Daniel and the rest there talking about different casual stuff.  Then some people came in only about 4 but then of course I was in the must sell something mood.  Its a huge deal to sell some artwork.  I have been kind of swirling there in a mild panic to make a sell cause its all cost as of yet .  The two galleries are 75 dollars as of yet not that its not so much but put that in with the cost of materials and its like man without sales... its like when is this going to get over.  I start to find a slight amount of doubt in a way.  If a person doesnt buy art it is still cost ...and if you have that for a while who cares if you have had 19 shows... you start thinking man maybe I suck.  I usually come off as a confidient person and I am but its like man ...maybe I dont have it.  Ok ..making sales shouldn't be the way to make yourself believe in yourself probably a bad way to reassure yourself  because what if there aren't any.  I used to just make art and I still do but to make art... not for the possibility of showing and then hoping for a sale.  I guess just moving to a showing continuing process with some sales changes it some what.... anyway I did make a sale.  Its a mixed result.  As I said I was like fuck can I make a sale.. it was a must and since I have a ton of abstract work around 300  so I think to myself I have so many but then I dont want to price it down even with that many cause I want to save some for the stock that I dont sell hoping for a Picasso style career in the way that I have a stock that is owned by my family not the rest.. Then my family can show it and charge a entry fees.  Assuming I am dead that is... ok

but back to this week.  I went to 83 gallery this week.  They were having a meeting on monday and of course which is great for  him but damn man I want some too....ok he is bad ass Joss Parker ...has a dude come in and check his art out and then pop he sells a 125 dollar piece....so that is bad ass..  and then after the Wed. night show at CS gallery  W.E. Arnold was talking about going over to 83 around 9 or so and I was like yeah that sounded good because I knew Joss would be there so we all went over there and found out that he had another sale to the same dude for the same Garbage pail kids..but a different one for another 125 dollars...man I want that kind of set up... 

The rest of the week was too get through the work crap.  I did get an ok amount on my money on my check but not that much.... lets leave the details off of a blog on that...if you dont know what I mean then just let that one goe...anyway I was trying to get the damn credit paid up first two cards were close to being late mailed one payment and one was going to be late but learned how to pay on the phone so that was cool but still have a backing up pile on the school loans..man I hate them  8 k to go ...and no that is not fun.  

Anyway that is crap...skip to this ....

friday cashed my check ok put it all in and put the rest I forwarded off my cards to pay the damn school loans...up...so that is finally done...

I then got home hung out with Zachariah my son and found out how to paint with him around and ...well I chipped on some lime stone piece until 6 and then painted until 9 or so then while Zach was hanging out with me the while time   he was playing outside while I was outside also chipping on the limestone.  I then went down stairs and painted while Zach was painting too.... I have been working on trying to make stencils work. I know an artist a pop artist who is amazing actually who talked about making stencils out of paper.... I am finding that is actually harder than he said  mainly because he is bad ass...so its easy if your a master... anyway... I was working on some oil paintings    horror ,character driven ...which is what I was like thinking that maybe not sure about how to navigate or put it on hold with abstract cause I just think there isnt much interest  but ok now I am sure there is interest ok that i what I am thinking this weekend....  cause I did have a sale..  anyway granny was sick last week so that put the baby sitting on hold and that made me turn to drawing more over the course of this last week and I was drawing a ton on horror drawings...  and drawing on card stock...so now I am painting ..last night I got up at 12 and painted on a ton of small paintings untill 5 am and then went to bed and got up in 3 hours to help my wife with the getting rid of our damn broken down van which is bad ass....then later in a few went back down to painting and got to laying out another painting in oil for Divine Chiropractic ....so that is pretty  much done now and I still have the two I layed out and started in oil a dragon painting which is almost done too.... have to get on the 313 studio and the show up in cleveland and the show 18 deadline for the philli show .... ok I am behind with going to get some pop and get back to the painting....

talk to later..

Arlo

tonights show at 83 gallery oct 2nd 2010

Well hello there my friends.  This night was one of cool times.  I am tired for sure but just had to set up another shot at blogging about the things that happened tonight.  I was able to show with some pretty crazy and good artist.  I had some painting and a large sculpture which is cool in the show met like 8 contacts.  just too tired to continue as of now...well talk to you soon and tell about the show 2morrow.
Arlo Moon

today oct 2, 2010 general history up to this blog with art

Hello I had blogged only once before on a art web site.  Today is an art show and I just invited a ton of people on facebook.  I am an artist and paint and sculpt.  I am trying to get more shows.  I show with 83 gallery which is a floating diy gallery kind of doesn't have a home but they are in a spot tonight at 1038 high st. in Columbus Ohio.  Geoff the main founder stated that would be the spot for a couple of years and hopefully that is true. Its ok really.  It has a good amount of space and its on the hop which is tonight and every first saturday of the month if your not involved with it in any way.  Well I hope to use this more cause I was trying to get a blog up and running and just didn't know what the hell to do with it thus far.  Facebook and really Craigslist was and is the first place I stumbled on to show postings and it was very easy to have a show that way. I have been showing with 83 gallery since June 2010 and once the first one was underway there was talk about being able to show with them in one of the other spots they show art.  Mainly bars and shops which is interesting cause its basically no cost.  Geoff is kind of an outsider and he is determined to continue that way I think.  That is cool in a way cause even though he isn't about making a profit he is very cool in the way of just getting together artist and networking.  Its a great thing to have a ton of people into art just like you. Before showing with them I was kind of just in limbo and was making art and didn't know all the ends and outs. I still don't have it all the way down. But meeting with the other artist has been a very valuable lesson of sorts cause it can help to learn more from others..  I do wish they talked more and shared info more cause it could be like a really strong group. I hear about shows sometimes that people are in and its too late.  Not that I am not into hustling for my own shows..but if we are sharing info we all can get in and its not like I have any interest in not letting others show..who would have the time for such non sense... but anyway its was great to show with them. I met an artist who told me about making my portfolio better and now I have seen an example at CS gallery which I met Daniel at the second house show at 83 gallery and most of the other artist dont like the process of paying to show... but i was like f it cause 25 dollars is not that much to show... it was wierd at first but basically just meeting him through 83 was one way I found another place to show.... I met Joss Parker at 83 gallery the first show I was going around talking to every one getting info and just talking for fun too.  He is a beast as I would like to call him cause he shows some many places.  I dont know about how I can fit that way.  I do mostly abstract work and dont know about how that can fit .  Not that it cant be shipped.  I just dont think many people are into it... it is more current as of now.  I am working on some figuritive work ... we will see. I met so man people who gave me info and now its about applying that info.

Well we will see how this goes here going to publish it now...
Arlo Moon