Project: Big Time

it was time for a project.

ideas were thought. materials were bought. an image was chosen.
lots of music was played. there was even a bit of dancing.

first was the prep:

then came the grueling color mixing and jars of solvents and lindseed oil and medium or whathaveyou.
oh, i didn’t take a picture of my palate. damn. well, um, just picture a board with flesh tones all over it and also jars and shot glasses filled with various poisons. i only used one brush. because i’m cheap.

yes. it’s squares. again. but don’t say it like, “again?” okay? don’t give me that, “didn’t you do that the last time?” bit because i’m not listening. i like the squares. i’m not doing a “portrait” portrait. so don’t think i don’t know what i’m doing. i am deconstructing an image into smaller bits of information.

the smaller bits just happen to be squares of color. lots of squares of lots of colors. and when these squares of color (information) are reconstructed it creates another image.

oops. looks like i messed it up with that blue/purple blob on the right.
that can’t possibly be correct can it?

it always looks like it’s not going to work.
jaimie, wait, where’s the nose? did you forget the nose?
and what about the purple blob? you’re going to fix that, right?