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Jan 1, 2019
Media: oil on canvas panel
Size: 12x9 in
This painting took about two hours to complete, but its journey began over thirty years ago. That's right, over three decades! I know what you are thinking. Probably should be a little more, um, awesome, considering. Well, consider this Chief, it is the only one of its kind in the entire Universe! So's a fingerprint, right? But I digress. As I said, many years ago this painting's journey began. I was hiking up Emory Peak in Big Bend National Park. One of the highest peaks in all of Texas. High enough, in fact, that the park Lodge and Gift Shop far below looked like Legos. Looking down into the Chisos Basin, I photographed this view. Who knew that some thirty years later this snap of the camera would become a reference slide for this very painting to ring in the new year of 2019. Wow, is it really 2019? By the way, what's a "slide". Back in the late 20th century I tended to use slides for my photography. For you younger folks, slides are...oh just Google it. Anyway, as an artist I am constantly looking for subject matter to paint, so one of my resources for in-studio works are my old slides. My process for these involves scanning them at high resolution for use from my laptop. So there you have it. A really really long journey...but wait! There's more. Oh so much more. Before I started laying paint to canvas, first I had to create some 358 other paintings...each adding in their own way to my ability to create this one, through trial and error, frustration and satisfaction, wanting to give it up completely, and then reconsidering a few days later. Are you grasping this? Art is a journey. Okay, so maybe I'm overselling a bit here. But there really is a point to all of this if you think about it. This painting took about two hours to complete, but its journey began over thirty years ago. That's right, over three decades! I know what you are thinking. Probably should be a little more, um, awesome, considering. Well, consider this Chief, it is the only one of its kind in the entire Universe! So's a fingerprint, right? But I digress. As I said, many years ago this painting's journey began. I was hiking up Emory Peak in Big Bend National Park. One of the highest peaks in all of Texas. High enough, in fact, that the park Lodge and Gift Shop far below looked like Legos. Looking down into the Chisos Basin, I photographed this view. Who knew that some thirty years later this snap of the camera would become a reference slide for this very painting to ring in the new year of 2019. Wow, is it really 2019? By the way, what's a "slide". Back in the late 20th century I tended to use slides for my photography. For you younger folks, slides are...oh just Google it. Anyway, as an artist I am constantly looking for subject matter to paint, so one of my resources for in-studio works are my old slides. My process for these involves scanning them at high resolution for use from my laptop. So there you have it. A really really long journey...but wait! There's more. Oh so much more. Before I started laying paint to canvas, first I had to create some 358 other paintings...each adding in their own way to my ability to create this one, through trial and error, frustration and satisfaction, wanting to give it up completely, and then reconsidering a few days later. Are you grasping this? Art is a journey. Okay, so maybe I'm overselling a bit here. But there really is a point to all of this if you think about it. |
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