So for you who may or may not know, my buddy
Joseph Galluccio and I are organizing a group show for this coming October. The theme is the circus. I'll be posting all the official info on that soon, but in the mean time I thought it might be cool to do a step by step of the piece I have to do for the show. Each artist participating in the show has to produce one 3'x5' painting for the show. So here is mine
It all started with a sketch, mostly for layout purposes. I actually sketched out all the characters individually first and then I did the crewed sketch above. If anyone is interested I can post the other sketches up later.
I decided to use a piece of MDF panel to paint on. Mostly because it is like painting on glass. I ran into some problems though. I could only find 3/4" thick MDF, I wanted 1/4" thick, mostly because the shit is real heavy. So I settled for the 3/4" stuff and bought this fancy gadget to hang the damn thing. Then I primed it which is what you see above.
After the primer dried, I sketch on my creatures. I made some modifications and added a crap load more of detail. I'm sorry for the poor quality of the photos. I just can't take a good picture.
Above an below are some close ups.
Next using oils I painted the sky, clouds, and the mountains, aka the background.
Here is a close up of the mountains.
In this photo above I started the main clowns head. Also in oils. Stay posted there will be more to come in the next couple of days. Let me know what you think. Later.
So here are the photos from the Circus Show, compliments of my friends Amy, Mike, and my siss Melissa. The night kicked ass. The ruff estimates are out and there was believed to be around 400 people who attended the opening through out the night. There were so many people that the Fire Marshal came. That is the first time it has ever happened at an ArtSpace opening. Thats Right.
Sorry I thought I had posted them already. From Top to bottom: My finished painting "Over The Top Big Top", The "Clown" sculpture, The "Tight Rope Walker", and my "Shrunken Head" in a jar with out flash and with flash.
It is that time once again, when each year I along with my very good friend Joseph Galluccio throw a huge gallery show in downtown Hartford, CT at the ArtSpace Gallery. This year John McCormack teamed up with us to help throw the show. There will be 14 artist including the 3 of us. 14 different artist, 14 different styles, everything from paintings & Sculptures to Photos & Freaks. So on October 5th please join us for a night of guaranteed FREE kick-ass fun, food, drink and of awesome Art.
I got to work on it this weekend, so I finished the clowns head, and started on the Ringmasters head. I'm hoping to finish the painting in the next two weeks.
Here is a close up of the clowns head. Sorry about the flash, I said it before I'm not good with a camera. Later.
I decided to use a piece of MDF panel to paint on. Mostly because it is like painting on glass. I ran into some problems though. I could only find 3/4" thick MDF, I wanted 1/4" thick, mostly because the shit is real heavy. So I settled for the 3/4" stuff and bought this fancy gadget to hang the damn thing. Then I primed it which is what you see above.
After the primer dried, I sketch on my creatures. I made some modifications and added a crap load more of detail. I'm sorry for the poor quality of the photos. I just can't take a good picture.
Above an below are some close ups.
Next using oils I painted the sky, clouds, and the mountains, aka the background.
Here is a close up of the mountains.
In this photo above I started the main clowns head. Also in oils. Stay posted there will be more to come in the next couple of days. Let me know what you think. Later.
