STUDIO PEN AND PAINT 2

2008-05-31T18:53:00.000-07:00

Great Art makes you want to become a better person.

2008-05-04T04:38:00.000-07:00

I have been playing around with jewelry lately. I am quick to come up with ideas that are as complicated as possible. With every new idea there is a tool that I do not have and need to buy.With no money at my disposal I am going to limit myself to ready made objects. I can cut and polish just about anything with the tools in the glass studio where I work. I love exploring new material.

2008-04-11T05:06:00.000-07:00

Yes, I am still working on paintings.

2008-04-10T03:58:00.000-07:00

An artist on Flickr recently posted work from the Volta art fair. One of the painters whose work he photographed was Khalif Kelly a student at yale. I am really draw to all the paintings I have seen so far. The work is illustrative, and honest with a touch of politics. People are relating him to Jacob Lawrence but I see more of Balthus.

2008-04-06T03:44:00.000-07:00

More boxes. The Handel on this one is made from a piece of antique spatula, a piece of felt, an old rusty washer, a wooden peg, and piece of a tag my mechanic put on my keys when my check engine light decided to come on for no apparent reason.

You can have it here tricycledesign

2008-03-29T05:26:00.000-07:00

I have more art ideas than a freshman art student off his A.D.D medication. An idea has to come back around two or three times before Shannon will give it any validity. Something that keeps coming up, several times in the last five years, is making boxes.I am back on the box kick and ideas are flowing.

2008-03-28T04:20:00.000-07:00

Etsy: Your place to buy & sell all things handmade
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2008-03-19T16:25:00.000-07:00

I made a glass ring.

2008-03-15T05:19:00.000-07:00

I am working on a collabrative project with a filmaker using photography to recreate historic events. This image is my attempt at making a study for a civil war photo. The neighbors must think I am crazy because I kept flinging myself on the ground. Shannon's only comment was "you dont look dead".

2008-03-11T16:34:00.000-07:00

I try to get into my studio everyday,even if it is only for a moment, preferably longer, but it is not always easy.

2008-03-07T04:47:00.000-08:00

Sometimes I wish I could be in a collaborative art group rather than just making my own work. I think the work would go further that way. Like being in a rock band where four or five guys work up ideas together. I could be the builder of the group, we would need and ideas person and perhaps an illustrator, and then definitely a manager who could go out and get us some gigs. That would take a lot of the pressure off my shoulders and produce better work.

2008-02-29T15:36:00.000-08:00

Its always an honor to hang work next to a Tinguely.

2008-02-24T05:41:00.000-08:00

I made this collage a long time ago when I was making small works to sell here in town. I am now at a point in my painting where it will fit well into a group as a large painting. I plan to make a 3 ft oil painting from it in the next few weeks.

2008-02-22T13:17:00.000-08:00

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution. -Paul Cezanne

2008-02-21T14:50:00.000-08:00

Maisy's collage.

2008-02-09T13:32:00.000-08:00

Suddenly I cannot do a collage to save my life. I keep trying to make the piece into something I have predetermined instead of letting it be what it wants to be. I have switched to watercolor for awhile in order to gain some more control over my images. Maisy couldn't care less.

2008-02-04T15:35:00.001-08:00

2008-02-02T04:20:00.000-08:00

Last weekend I went down to the local art museum and checked out a show of paintings by Maud Gatewood. Her work is uniquely abstracted, a style of painting like no other work I have seen before. She seems to have developed a technique of masking off sections and building up multiple layers of texture, rendering surfaces such as straw, trees, rock, even cows and people. It was not always easy to see how she executed some of the surfaces. I had never heard of Gatewood before going to this show and even now when I look up her work online the images I find do not come close to doing justice to seeing them in person.

2008-01-25T14:23:00.000-08:00

I've sent the work off to Charlotte and started a new painting. The small collage called Train Bridge is going to be in the show. I made a copy so I could use it as a reference to make a 4ft oil painting using the same design. I am going to try painting the whole thing using very thin layers like one would use water color, then I will paint over the top getting progressively thicker.

2008-01-18T14:00:00.000-08:00

This is a large painting I just finished last week. It is going into a show in Charlotte called Structures. The piece took three months to complete and started as a small collage. The painting is 4ft square which is a size I am going to continue working with for awhile. I am very happy with the way this one turned out. I think I am going to continue with the bridge design for my next few paintings.

2008-01-14T17:41:00.000-08:00

2008-01-10T16:40:00.000-08:00

Check out some of my paintings at Palm Beach 3.

2008-01-06T12:36:00.001-08:00

2008-01-04T10:15:00.000-08:00

a letter I will be sending to galleries...

A. Tucker Studios

This is a quick update to let you know how things have been developing inside my studio this past year. I hope to be able to send out a new update once or twice a year, which will keep you up-to-date with the evolution of my work.

Time in the studio this year has been fruitful. I started 2007 building upon my grid paintings. I began adding new elements to blocks of scratched paint. Playful Images of toys, crowns, and plant forms reflected my anticipation of the birth of my first child, Maisy.

I am always working in both paper and paint — while my oils are drying I am cutting collages. Mid-summer I started making collage work that employed simple shapes based on industrial landscape designs. Soon this work began to develop into something interesting and worthy of further exploration. In the months since I started, the paintings have become more representational, starting out with simple forms and evolving into images of bridges, factories, and urban landscapes.

I am excited about the new direction my work is taking and hope to venture into more ambitious areas as it develops. As always I am eager to get the work out into the public eye and hope that you too will be interested in setting up time in the next year to see and show the work. I plan to have some of these paintings photographed and images sent to you very soon.

Jan 2008

2007-12-24T05:41:00.000-08:00

I am messing around with old Civil War photos. Converting them into collages and perhaps later into larger paintings. Its a fun thing to work on while baby sitting Maisy during the holidays and I hope to have enough for a large body of work to later show and sell.