artspace at taborspace

artspace group show opening at taborspace

group show at taborspace

Showing 1 large and 3 small paintings at the Artspace group show at TaborSpace. Dec 1-Jan 2, 2010
Green happens, World kissed, Focus on what you want, You can do it. Opening reception tonight at 7pm.

d015, d016, d017

Drawings began yesterday and 'finished' today. Zeroes or circles first appeared in recent paintings. These are oil pastel, ink, color pens, with pencil for the first two drawings, 6x6 inches. Click on thumbnail for larger image.

  

helen to a tea, a slideshow

oil pastel mostly

Still continuing to make little drawings, numbering them as they were started... d001, d002 etc. Moved on to making square ones at 6x6 inches using more oil pastels. Blackfish is having a drawing show in January and images are needed by Sunday. It seems I'm able to focus when there is a show coming up and tend to not do anything when there's nothing on the horizon. It helps to have exhibits lined up.

Here are three drawings I did yesterday while a technician from India was troubleshooting my Norton Internet Security application on my desktop. He ended up uninstalling and reinstalling it.

I spend so much time in front of the computer so I thought why not bring over my little drawing pad, pastels & pens? I discovered too that pencil, if you press it hard enough,  will make a mark over oil pastel. Can't do that with the ink & color pens. These are d012, d013, & d014... 6x6 inches. Click on thumbnail for larger image.

  

2 square drawings

two square drawings both 6x6 inches
the first-- ink, colored pens, oil pastel, crayons and pentel
the second-- oil pastels, some ink & colored pens

 

3 weekend drawings

Drawings made during the weekend. Because of the detail, I seem to spend more time on one of these little things than on the recent paintings. Figurative stuff are starting to show up. Perhaps it's time to move in that direction with the paintings. Ink & colored pens on paper, all 4x6 inches. Click on picture for larger image.

  

6 new drawings

I have been working on these drawings for the last two days using an extra-fine Japanese pen and colored pens on a 4x6 inch spiral notebook, with the aid of a magnifying glass and a reducer--the opposite of a magnifying glass. Click on thumbnail for larger image.

small abstract paintings

Was working on these tiny paintings a few days ago using a magnifying glass. Oil, pentel & caulk on wood. No titles at the moment. Click on picture for larger image.

doodle 1: corner of main & broadway

My first attempt at drawing. More of a doodle on a smudged inkjet print of 2 paintings.
Current title: Corner of Main & Broadway
Pentel & ink on glossy photo paper with print
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world kissed

"World Kissed"
Got the title from the 2-word Captcha (completely automated public turing test to tell computers and humans apart) when posting this to Facebook. Oil on Baltic birch, 15.5 x 12.5 inches. Click on picture for larger image.

1 million

working title: 1000000
oil, pentel on canvas, 14 x 11 inches
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how to massage a cake

one of two paintings i began today, sunday
working title: how to massage a cake
oil, pencil on canvas, 14 x 11 inches
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ones & zeroes #2

Started this piece Saturday night. Second picture same painting turned upside down. Can't make up my mind which top is better at the moment. What happens when one keeps turning it around. Oil on canvas, 14 x 11 inches. Click on picture for larger image.

 

ones and zeroes

new painting for today
working title: 'ones and zeroes'
oil on canvas, 14 x 11 inches
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painting 017

New painting started today. Painting 017 because that is the part of the number of the jpeg file in the camera (P1030017.JPG). Starting new paintings is easy. Figuring out when they're done is more tricky. Oil on canvas, 14 x 11 inches. Click on picture for larger image.

painting started

got tired of doing nothing
oil on canvas, 14 x 11 inches
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finished business?

This small horizontal painting is what I was working on yesterday. It is either finished or still a work in progress. My natural impulse is to be sloppy and haphazard. For a change of pace, I thought, what if I just did vertical and horizontal lines and shapes, and tried to be as neat as possible?

I actually began this piece vertically. If you tilt your head to the right or left you'll see how it would be with the thick white line on the right being the top or the dark blue on the left as the top part. I was turning the thing upside down vertically every so often, adding more paint each time but could not make up my mind which was the better top. Two-thirds through the painting process I turned it sideways horizontally as you see it here and it seemed to jell, or it sat well. That's how I painted it last. Now if I turn it upside down or vertically I'm likely to make new adjustments. I'd rather start a new painting or work on unfinished business.
Oil on Baltic birch wood, with frame 7 x 11.75 inches. Click on picture for larger image.

work in progress #2... 9/26/09

This is the second piece I started yesterday. Today I placed the painting in the frame intending to paint part of the frame like with the previous painting. However, it seems to work fine the way it is. I know that if I begin touching up here and there, before you know it, it would get a labored feeling, lose some of the freshness or spontaneity. Will set this aside too and instead begin a new painting. If I look at this painting in a week or so I will probably figure out what else to do with it. Untitled, oil on Baltic birch wood, 13.5 x 11.5 inches. Click on picture for larger image.

work in progress #1 ...9/26/09

Today I'll start posting paintings in progress. Dimensions with the frame here is 13.5 by 11.5 inches. Oil on Baltic birch wood. I do not have a working title for this one at the moment. I started this painting yesterday and worked some more on it today. At this time I do not know what else to do with it. I'll set it aside and tackle another painting, same size similar frame that was initiated along with this one. Click on picture for larger image.

small paintings for new york

Reworked 5 small framed paintings started last week and added a 6th... for October group show 'Never think small' at Climate Gallery in Queens, NY. Oil on Baltic birch wood. Mailing these on Monday.

small framed paintings

Plan C for Climate Gallery. Made 5 small framed paintings yesterday. Oil on Baltic wood. Fitted the wood in the frames first before painting. The frames are deep enough so the wet oil paint hopefully will not smear during mailing.

small paintings (slideshow)

Plan B on what to send to New York is a few small paintings done years ago. The paint is dry... which ones to mail? Took pictures to see what's around. Have not done anything figurative for a while.

paintings on escutcheons

Oil on steel escutcheons painted a couple of days ago. These are approximately 7 to 8.5 inches tall and 2 to 2.5 inches wide. Herman James, a friend from Boston, asked me to send a few small paintings for the October grand opening of Climate Gallery which he co-founded, located in Queens, New York. The show is called NEVER THINK small!

blackfish, march 2009

art opening at blackfish, partly videotaped by hkoba

recent work @ blackfish, march 2009

paintings, march 2009

After the dozen pieces were installed at Blackfish I took pictures of them. Had to clean up with Photoshop the wall background on the paintings and uploaded these to my art site yesterday. They are arranged in the order (approximately) that I worked on them>> Paintings, March 2009.

you can't go wrong

It's going to be a while before I make and post any new painting video. My energy has shifted into blogging and Facebook. Here is the first painting I did for the March show at Blackfish.

recent work @ blackfish gallery

RECENT WORK at Blackfish Gallery, opening first Thursday, March 5th, 6-8:30pm.. through March 28, 2009, Portland Oregon.

(Image left: EL INCOGNITO, 2009, oil on wood & canvas)

Statement
I make paintings because it is challenging and fun. I usually take an old piece that for some reason does not work anymore and figure out where it wants to go next. I don’t know how the thing will turn out until I get there. I stop when I do not know what else to do with it. I video the process and upload it to YouTube.

Making art, at least the kind I do, is about expressing one’s emotions. 

Art opening>> PHOTO ALBUM

the wind brings good things

This is the last piece I worked on for the March show at Blackfish. Left picture: before I wirebrushed and sprayed it with high gloss lacquer. Middle: after I painted it with oil paint and right, the 'back' part.

This is the only free standing piece of 12 that I'm planning to take to Blackfish tomorrow for the March show. Besides this one, 8 are oil paintings and 3 are small wall mounted, painted steel works. Some are in a photo album on Facebook.
I learned from this post that if I don't drag the images around, the links stay unbroken. A good idea to upload all the pics first before writing anything. Will try that next time.