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Sunday, November 22, 2015
Sunday, November 8, 2015
Three Abstracts, Work in Progress II
- Previously in this series: Three Abstracts, Work in Progress
I'm getting together 3 30" X40" high works for a large abstract show I am in next year.
I expect that I will be layering different ideas for a while before they start to converge.
I'm going to be posting the states as I proceed.
Here's State 3.
Sunday, November 1, 2015
Three Abstracts, Work in Progress
I'm getting together 3 30" X40" high works for a large abstract show I am in next year.
I expect that I will be layering different ideas for a while before they start to converge.
I'm going to be posting the states as I proceed.
I expect that I will be layering different ideas for a while before they start to converge.
I'm going to be posting the states as I proceed.
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Monday, September 14, 2015
TWO events this month.
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Friday, July 24, 2015
July Popup
Ed Smiley: Colorful Abstracts / POPUP Art Show
Saturday, July 25 2015 from 11:00am - 5:00pm
Please join me and my fellow 17th Ave Studios Artists in Building 4, as we host our monthly POP up art show! We will be having a feature POP up show monthly through Dec.
Hope to see you pop by!
11am-5pm 980 17th Avenue, Building 4, Santa Cruz CA 95062
Sunday, June 28, 2015
What is your favorite Pollock painting and why?
I just answered a question on Quora, and I thought I should repost it here.
I have many favorites, but I recently was in Seattle and saw one that I hadn't seen before. It's really not attention grabbing, and pretty small for a Pollock, and the color range is very minimal. All this said, when I actually saw this painting it totally blew my mind.
The painting is called "Sea Change", for reasons that will become obvious. Here's what you can see in the painting in person not in reproduction:
The main colors are aluminum paint and a glossy black enamel. There are also pebbles in it, which adds to the texture. The paint surface is three dimensional in some uncanny way so that as you move from side to side, different light glints off the surface in different places and the black lines throb in and out space as you move past it. It completely shifts and changes.
Depending on what angle you look at it from the depth some times looks like three to six inches, even though the paint is not nearly that thick. It may be that paint going over the pebbles also adds to the effect, as a black line of paint would have a radically different shape from different angles.
Pollock must have known what he was doing, although I have no idea how he was able to pull it off, and have never seen another painting behave in exactly this way before producing this kind of 3-D false parallax.
I think that in some way he got the silvery paint to reflect from two different positions one for each eye, much like what you see in 3-D glasses. Also if the glossy black paint is hit by light from the side it as seen by one eye, and not the other, that could also produce some of that mysterious depth. It's not a stable effect, so as you move past it, to the right or left it keeps changing.
Here is an image of the painting. But it is NOT the painting, and you can only get the vaguest idea of its effect from this photo...
Sea change is a Shakespearian coinage, and means "a profound or notable transformation."
Incidentally, this speech from The Tempest was the source for the title of another of Pollock's paintings, Full Fathom Five.
I also just found a video on how the work was conserved. Even if you aren't into conservation, it gives some really good closeups so you can see you incredibly complex the surface is:
The painting is called "Sea Change", for reasons that will become obvious. Here's what you can see in the painting in person not in reproduction:
The main colors are aluminum paint and a glossy black enamel. There are also pebbles in it, which adds to the texture. The paint surface is three dimensional in some uncanny way so that as you move from side to side, different light glints off the surface in different places and the black lines throb in and out space as you move past it. It completely shifts and changes.
Depending on what angle you look at it from the depth some times looks like three to six inches, even though the paint is not nearly that thick. It may be that paint going over the pebbles also adds to the effect, as a black line of paint would have a radically different shape from different angles.
Pollock must have known what he was doing, although I have no idea how he was able to pull it off, and have never seen another painting behave in exactly this way before producing this kind of 3-D false parallax.
I think that in some way he got the silvery paint to reflect from two different positions one for each eye, much like what you see in 3-D glasses. Also if the glossy black paint is hit by light from the side it as seen by one eye, and not the other, that could also produce some of that mysterious depth. It's not a stable effect, so as you move past it, to the right or left it keeps changing.
Here is an image of the painting. But it is NOT the painting, and you can only get the vaguest idea of its effect from this photo...
Sea change is a Shakespearian coinage, and means "a profound or notable transformation."
Full fathom five thy father lies:
Of his bones are coral made:
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Incidentally, this speech from The Tempest was the source for the title of another of Pollock's paintings, Full Fathom Five.
I also just found a video on how the work was conserved. Even if you aren't into conservation, it gives some really good closeups so you can see you incredibly complex the surface is:
Monday, June 22, 2015
Turn On. Tune in. Pop Up. Come on By My Studio This Saturday.
Mark your calendars.
Visit my studio and watch me work.
Please join me and my fellow 17th Ave Studios Artists in Building 4, as we host our first monthly POP UP art show!
We will be having a feature POP up show monthly through Dec. The summer shows will be June 27. July 25, Aug 22.
Hope to see you pop by!
Saturday at 11:00am - 5:00pm
Show Map
17th Avenue Studios
Visit my studio and watch me work.
Please join me and my fellow 17th Ave Studios Artists in Building 4, as we host our first monthly POP UP art show!
We will be having a feature POP up show monthly through Dec. The summer shows will be June 27. July 25, Aug 22.
Hope to see you pop by!
Saturday at 11:00am - 5:00pm
Show Map
17th Avenue Studios
Building 4, Studio 56
980 17th Ave, Santa Cruz, California 95062
980 17th Ave, Santa Cruz, California 95062
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Back to Work in The Studio
Took down the extra paintings in the hall.
Had to reorganize my stuff so I could work again.
Just finished some new ones. I am going into a polka dot phase, apparently.
Now I am starting on a series of little polka dot paintings.
Had to reorganize my stuff so I could work again.
Just finished some new ones. I am going into a polka dot phase, apparently.
Now I am starting on a series of little polka dot paintings.
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Getting Ready for Open Studio! Ed Smiley: Colorful Abstracts: 17th Avenue Studios Spring Show
Here's some candid photos of setting up my Open Studio for the Spring Show.
I tend to get a little manic when hanging shows, truth to tell.
I may have gotten a little carried away.
OK here's a little blurb:
As part of the 17th Avenue Spring Show and Sale, I will be one of participating artists. My studio is in Building 4. There will be many other participating artists as well. Come celebrate Spring, and the 15th Anniversary of 17th Avenue Studios!
Time: Saturday, May 16, 2015 - Sunday, May 17, 2015 11:00am- 05:00pm
Location : 980 17th Avenue, Santa Cruz CA 95062
Time: Saturday, May 16, 2015 - Sunday, May 17, 2015 11:00am- 05:00pm
Location : 980 17th Avenue, Santa Cruz CA 95062
Work in Progress: 17th Avenue Spring Show Open Studio: Win This Painting!
There are going to be some prizes given to some lucky person who comes to the 17th Avenue Spring Show. I am participating, and you can see the link here: http://edsmileysartblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/open-studio-ed-smiley-colorful-abstracts.html
I volunteered to supply a piece, and I thought it would be fun to do a little piece from scratch and to document its progress. (Or lack of progress.)
So here are some state photos of "Dotty" as I have named it.
STATE 1:
Underlayer of wet off white acrylic. Spray painted with Liquitex acrylic spraypaint middle with multiple colors, to and bottom blue.
Lifted off color, primarily in center with plastic wrap.
You can see tape being applied for the next step
STATE 5:
Acrylic transfer.
Trying out a pattern to transfer.
After the medium is dried, wet and remove paper.
At this point, it was pretty much done. There's a state 11, not shown. I just took out the lower right hand dot and replaced it with some red, and one other tiny change, which made the composition work better, but essentially that's it!
Here's the details about my Open Studio:
You'll have a chance to win this painting!
As part of the 17th Avenue Spring Show and Sale, I will be one of participating artists. My studio is in Building 4. There will be many other participating artists as well. Come celebrate Spring, and the 15th Anniversary of 17th Avenue Studios!
Saturday, May 16, 2015 - Sunday, May 17, 2015 11:00am- 05:00pm
I volunteered to supply a piece, and I thought it would be fun to do a little piece from scratch and to document its progress. (Or lack of progress.)
So here are some state photos of "Dotty" as I have named it.
STATE 1:
Underlayer of wet off white acrylic. Spray painted with Liquitex acrylic spraypaint middle with multiple colors, to and bottom blue.
Lifted off color, primarily in center with plastic wrap.
You can see tape being applied for the next step
STATE 2:
Masked with tape, spray paint with flat white.
STATE 3:
Brush on diarylide yellow on unmasked areas.
STATE 4:
Tape removed. Some additional color applied.
STATE 5:
Acrylic transfer.
Trying out a pattern to transfer.
The paper is now covered on the image side with gloss medium and applied face down to the canvas.
After the medium is dried, wet and remove paper.
STATE 6:
Paper removed. Some more color applied.
STATE 7:
STATE 8:
Masking areas to create teal circles.
STATE 9:
For a while I thought this was done, and I signed it.
Then I started bringing in color areas, hot picks and acid greens.
Then I started masking and spraying areas.
I almost left it here.
I discovered that I had lost track of the time.
It's 10PM and I am exhausted.
I washed my brushes and was about to leave....
But....
But...
STATE 10:
I really didn't want to dirty any brushes.
What if I put a spot of green on with my finger?
Or added some red?...
And then finally, I added some off white, and the while picture livened up again.
I then rubbed the teal along the edges..
At this point, it was pretty much done. There's a state 11, not shown. I just took out the lower right hand dot and replaced it with some red, and one other tiny change, which made the composition work better, but essentially that's it!
Here's the details about my Open Studio:
You'll have a chance to win this painting!
As part of the 17th Avenue Spring Show and Sale, I will be one of participating artists. My studio is in Building 4. There will be many other participating artists as well. Come celebrate Spring, and the 15th Anniversary of 17th Avenue Studios!
Saturday, May 16, 2015 - Sunday, May 17, 2015 11:00am- 05:00pm
Location : 980 17th Avenue, Santa Cruz CA 95062
Monday, April 6, 2015
Open Studio! Ed Smiley: Colorful Abstracts
Saturday, May 16, 2015 - Sunday, May 17, 2015 11:00am- 05:00pm
As part of the 17th Avenue Spring Show and Sale, I will be one of participating artists. My studio is in Building 4. There will be many other participating artists as well. Come celebrate Spring, and the 15th Anniversary of 17th Avenue Studios!
Location : 980 17th Avenue, Santa Cruz CA 95062
Monday, March 16, 2015
I will be at the Third Friday Event at the Capitola Mall
Please join me for the launch of Third Fridays-Capitola Mall on Friday, March 20th, 5:30 - 8:30pm!
I will be showing in the empty store next to the Hallmark Store, along with local artist Michael Singer.
I will be showing in the empty store next to the Hallmark Store, along with local artist Michael Singer.
Third Fridays - Capitola Mall is a free monthly indoor walking art tour. Each month, the stores and venues at the Mall host an evening with local artists and their work, celebrating the creative culture that makes Santa Cruz County special.
Enjoy wine, snacks, music and local art around every corner. Please come out and support our incredibly talented local artists.
Here's some of my work, staged for the show:
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Third Fridays - Capitola Mall
Third Fridays - Capitola Mall
Third Fridays - Capitola Mall is a free monthly indoor walking art tour. Each month, the stores and venues at the Capitola Mall host local artists and their work, celebrating the creative culture that makes Santa Cruz County special.
STARTING MARCH 20
Third Fridays-Capitola Mall runs each third Friday from 5:30pm-8:30pm. Food, wine, and entertainment will be provided. Check back here for more details as we get closer to our the launch of this great new event
Third Fridays-Capitola Mall Dates for 2015
Friday, March 20 (Launch) I will be at the launch! <===
Friday, April 17
Friday, May 15
Friday, June 19
Friday, July 17
Friday, August 21
Friday, September 18
Friday, October 16
Friday, November 20
Friday, December 18
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