Recent Paintings on Burlap 2
Finally the dates for the new show are cast in stone. The show will go up on September 29 (in the morning) and will run till October 26th.
Location: Cafe Pomegranate, 221 E. San Fernando St., San Jose, CA 95112 [cafe web site] [map]
Cafe Hours: Mon - Thu 7:30am - 7pm, Fri 7:30am - 5:30 pm
Meet the artist: Tue October 3rd from 5:30 - 7pm
Ask at the cafe for free parking for cafe patrons (4th Street garage)
The show will contain some of the same pieces on burlap I showed at the Los Gatos Coffee Roasting Company in June (hand-made oils on burlap) [link to blog entry] but it will also show new works where I went into a slightly different direction: where the earlier pieces contained only earth tones, the new pieces use intense, bright colors, with many blues. These pieces explore the strong contrast between the warm tone of the natural fabric support and the intense colors I put on these supports.
Instead of just using burlap, I cut open coffee bags (donated by the Los Gatos Coffee Roasting Company), stretched them on standard stretcher bars, and then painted on those. One of my goals was to incorporate much of the unmodified coffee bag into the designs, especially where the bag shows interesting markings and labeling to start with.
Interestingly, many of the bags are actually a much coarser fabric than burlap. I believe these bags are made out of Sisal, although I could not confirm that yet. In any case, their weave is much coarser and the fabric is also lighter in color. On several of the pieces I used collage of paper on the fabric to locally control the coarse texture. I hope you'll agree that the overall effect is quite interesting.
These pieces got me started thinking along quite different lines of work than I had before. For instance, I'm considering incorporating back-lighting into future work to make use of the wide-open weave and to incorporate the lighting emerging from the piece into the overall work. But that's just one of several ideas I'd like to explore over the next few months :)
Location: Cafe Pomegranate, 221 E. San Fernando St., San Jose, CA 95112 [cafe web site] [map]
Cafe Hours: Mon - Thu 7:30am - 7pm, Fri 7:30am - 5:30 pm
Meet the artist: Tue October 3rd from 5:30 - 7pm
Ask at the cafe for free parking for cafe patrons (4th Street garage)
The show will contain some of the same pieces on burlap I showed at the Los Gatos Coffee Roasting Company in June (hand-made oils on burlap) [link to blog entry] but it will also show new works where I went into a slightly different direction: where the earlier pieces contained only earth tones, the new pieces use intense, bright colors, with many blues. These pieces explore the strong contrast between the warm tone of the natural fabric support and the intense colors I put on these supports.Instead of just using burlap, I cut open coffee bags (donated by the Los Gatos Coffee Roasting Company), stretched them on standard stretcher bars, and then painted on those. One of my goals was to incorporate much of the unmodified coffee bag into the designs, especially where the bag shows interesting markings and labeling to start with.
Interestingly, many of the bags are actually a much coarser fabric than burlap. I believe these bags are made out of Sisal, although I could not confirm that yet. In any case, their weave is much coarser and the fabric is also lighter in color. On several of the pieces I used collage of paper on the fabric to locally control the coarse texture. I hope you'll agree that the overall effect is quite interesting.
These pieces got me started thinking along quite different lines of work than I had before. For instance, I'm considering incorporating back-lighting into future work to make use of the wide-open weave and to incorporate the lighting emerging from the piece into the overall work. But that's just one of several ideas I'd like to explore over the next few months :)
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