Stickin' Ideas Together

I figured it's time to follow up on the Jill Pilon class. Wowzers was it fantastic! Jill is a true inspiration and a natural teacher, (being a mom to three children likely helps). The painting above is simply my sample board from the class. To me it's a great painting in its own right. Jill encourages experimentation, curiosity, pushing of comfort zones and accepting happy accidents. The freedom, permission and sense of accomplishment I felt after attending her class is a testament to her supportive nature. I'm hungrily reworking my on-going ultrasound paintings with a revived urban edge and some of that raw expression I've been craving to express. Feelin' good... and frankly lookin' good! I'll post one of them soon.

Recently I was invited to participate in a group show celebrating the artwork and history of the Joker card. The curator's partner has an impressive collection of these playing cards and wanted a forum to display and share them; therefore, sharing a passion of his with the boutique's collection of artist was a natural development. My entry, "Who is not a fool?", is approx. 8"x24" made with acrylic paint, collaged paper with a final resin coating on a wooden cradled panel. I approached the challenge of creating a painting based on someone else's interest the same I would a graphic design job. I researched, sketched out ideas, planned, referred to the "design brief" many times and then executed & refined my painting. In the end I felt I had successfully interpreted the brief. However, I was concerned that maybe I was being too literal to include numbers, card symbols, even the set up of 2 card-like forms. Perhaps I it is to...