This is my next project. Well, actually it is a recently finished painting showing me now and in kindergarten. "Kim has a good skip" is a sentence that my teacher actually put on one of my progress reports. It's really helped me become the full-functioning adult that I am today. My next project is for a show called "Off the Wall" with a gallery called Eco-logical Art where the owner/curator takes used billboard vinyl and stretches it on 4x4 foot or 8x8 foot canvases and gives it to artists to paint on, then sells it in his gallery. This year he's recently gotten the okay to put up paintings on billboards that aren't being used for a month at a time or more. So I signed up to do a 4x4 foot painting because we only have six weeks to paint it and everyone knows how sloooooowwww a painter I am - or used to be. I've actually gotten much faster since I don't have to work in a basement that's only 50 degrees most of the year. Also, the curator is going to divide the billboards into thirds (10 x 13.25 feet) and convinced me to recreate "Kim has a good skip" on it. So starting Saturday I'll be in downtown LA because we have to paint it in his warehouse. My goal is to do it in two long three-day weekends because my son will be visiting the last two weekends and I don't want to force him to sit with me in a warehouse just so I can spend time with him. The other challenge is painting in acrylic when I'm used to painting in oil. The good thing is that it doesn't have to be very detailed since it will be seen from far away. I plan on taking photos of the process and will let everyone know more as I go along.
4 comments:
That's awesome! And you had some cool glasses when you were in kindergarten.
I had a typo in the last post, that's why it was deleted. Matt said I should get another pair of glasses like that and it can come full circle. I told him to think again.
Kim
You Did have a good skip in kindergarten.
Buddy
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