Time to Revive dead ideas!

A little while ago Dave and i decided to do a collaboration painting that got grounded faster than a drunk ass teenager. I decided to sketch something today that would be right up his alley. This robot is still super tough besides the underoos and yes in the future all girls in bikinis have robot bodyguards. Get with it.

I wasn't fucking around about that throw up shit.

Matt sort of dodged the 'deal with a horned floating face throwing up' bullet....because I painted it on a canvas tonight that was below our agreed upon size, AND used up more than 50% of the canvas.

He didn't dodge the way worse ideas I came up with in the mean time though.

Why am I so fixated on creatures vomiting candy?

I agree with Matt - it would be a suuuuper rad idea to get a large group of artists banging out team up paintings. I'm toying with the idea of setting up a show at lulubell (the gallery I curate at, in case you're a bad friend and didn't know...) for sometime next year along those same lines.

The notion of working on a piece that another artist started is awesome. It's equal parts exciting and fucking stressful in a good way. All in all I'm more poop-my-pants excited about this than anything else.

In other news - who's used "crackle" before? No, it wont get you high but it will give you an "aged cracked finish" on your paintings...if that's the sort of sick shit you're into. And, yes, it is called "crackle", I could do way better than that.






I'm not entirely certain it's even meant to be used with acrylic paint, or on canvas - but it works pretty well, as you can see here.



Don't be afraid to use some stuff that you're not sure about on a painting...one time I threw Strip-e-Doo (an industrial strength screen cleaner for silk screens) on a painting not knowing if it would do nothing at all....or cause my canvas to light on fire. In the end it caused some really rad looking chemical rings on the painting and I ended up selling it to some poor bastard in Phoenix. So be adventurous and toss some shit on a painting...just dont do pool shock and break fluid...that really will blow up, no shit.

Matts 3rd person introduction

Ok, Matt here. Ive been allowed access to this rare but exquisite golden mean realm. I plan to use my time here wisely by making awful jokes and teasing an unknown audience about an event they probably haven't heard of. To be fair an event hasn't been schedule yet around this "wondertwins" team up. Im hoping that it will "take form of an eyepooping artistic mashup".

As dave already explained we are both starting a painting, using about 50% of the canvas, and mailing it to the other artist as a surprise/present/yourefuckedbomb. Im trying to steer myself away from the latter. Yet part of me wants to send dave a painting of Bob Ross painting Kevin Costner with a letter that says" You finish this horseshit, it was a terrible idea......... yet i couldn't stop".

In all seriousness I'm very excited to see how this comes out. Dave has a leg up on me as he is caught up with his artistic ventures and can focus his time on this. I have a few approaching deadlines that I'm working on first(because im a slacker). Its taking every ounce of restraint for me to not rush those other works because I'm so amped about this. I would love to see this spawn a large collaborative show where 20 or so artists get together and do this once a year. Im guessing you could start a network dave? Lets see how we do first eh?

Yarf

Chances of Matt ending up having to deal with something like this from me: pretty high.

Warm Vomit....?

My most recent bunch of paintings, I noticed, mostly involved a cold color scheme – lots of blues, purples, etc. At least that was the case up until my most recent art show at Café Zope, where I wanted to play off of the natural color setting there, which was yellow / off-white / eggshell. As a result, I’m noticing that most of my paintings currently in progress are going in an opposite direction. I think it’s because I’m trying to get away from the cold stuff…..and because I’ve been playing a lot of Dante’s Inferno on the 360 and I’m certain the Hell imagery is influencing my work.

Oh, how I’d LOVE to do a “Nine Circles of Hell” series…but that’s gonna have to wait because I’m too busy AND I personally feel like that’d be too close to Dave Quiggle’s fan-fucking-tastic “Seven Deadly Sins” series. One day though…one day…
So, I’ve been working with a lot of warm colors….chances are Matt’s going to end up with some overly warm painting to work on.


Also, everything has been vomiting in my paintings lately. I dunno why.

Dave/Matt Voltron-Like Team Up

Hi everyone, Dave here! So we've had this blog for about a year now and never used it so I figured its high time to start. Disregard the "clothing" moniker, thats how old this blog is - it's from when GM was going to be a strictly clothing producing entity....which is no longer exclusively the case.

Recently I offered up an idea to a friend of mine, Matt McCord, (who will be an admin / guest ranter on here shortly) to team up on a painting - being a rad kid, he was down. So I figured why not take it a step further and rant on here about our project and what we're going to be doing.

It's a simple enough premise, we're both going to paint roughly 50% of two 20x18 canvas then ship them to each other to complete. the deadline is, roughly december. So Matt and I will be detailing this project via this blog, and you're invited to tag along.

So far I have nothing tangible done.....I had a canvas painted out and ALMOST ready to ship to Matt, but then I realized that I liked the canvas just the way it was and decided that it was finished, once it's clear coated

here it is.


It's rare for me to leave so much open space, to use so few color and to utilize such drastic brushstroke economy (which is a fantastic indie band name) - so I liked it. I also realized that sending a painting to Matt that had so much splash and watercolor-esque shading would be cruel because it'd be hard as fuck to paint around that without wiping it out, not that I would have minded because I trust Matt entirely in that artistic sense...I just didn't want him all full of anxiety about perhaps coverign up a lot of what was there.

Thats it for now, gotta work in the morning. more to come.