MAYFAIR THEATRE!!
Ottawa’s great Mayfair Theatre is celebrating it’s 80th birthday!!
…and now that distributors aren’t shipping film prints anymore, the Mayfair needs to score a $55K digital projector!! so as part of their fundraising initiatives, i’ve contributed two signed books to be auctioned off.
both the kid’s “Bagel’s Lucky Hat”, and the grown-up “Bent” have fold-out sketch/signature pages taped right in!
if you want to bid on the books come to their super-fun “Indiana Jones and the Projector Quest” events, they’re on June 23rd at 1:00pm, and June 26th at 6:30pm. Admission $15
Did Your Just Look at My Chest?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrANzwERcj0
Peering Over/Looking Back, pt 8 (final).
ah, that last day. just reaping the rewards of all those days and days of figuring and hair-pulling. validation that you DID know what you were doing after all. during the whole process i do my best to keep the well-defined things somewhat obscure, and to keep the diffuse, ill-defined things readable and palpable. it’s like making everything work in the middle where there are no absolute darks or lights. but then at the very end i allow myself those intensities where they’re absolutely necessary and where they’ll make things pop.
Peering Over/Looking Back, pt 7.
here are a couple of shots that were taken during several of the final days on “Peering”. things got a little too dense and saturated -as they often do- so i obscured/lightened quite a few things with some semi-opaque glazes and opaque marks. it’s always good to unsettle areas that are too precious and defined– i find it can restore a spirit of authenticity and spontaneity sometimes.
it’s frustrating as hell not knowing where you’re going in the middle phases, but it does lead to this great mistake-making, and repeated give/take that ultimately gives the piece character and a kind of patina.
and just as plopping down confident white highlights can give you a rush of accomplishment, drawing authoritative, bright, opaque lines on a muddy, sloppy area can feel like you’re creating order with the hand of god. like tidying a room with the wave of your hand. if only the whole process was like that.