I did lots of things this week.

I cut my frames to size and spray painted the ones that weren't black

(with help) I made by book go from looking way worse than this

to this

and then I remembered that the inside is nowhere near complete.

But instead of working on that I decided to fuck this painting up instead

 (how humiliating)

but I also made this painting which is ok

and also I did half of the mounting on all of my works on paper

blah

timekeeping:

allthosethings:25.5 hours

Charcoal Fog

Can I just update on Sunday from now on?

This week I made good progress on this painting:

This week I only painted with charcoal, black, and white. It's almost done.

And I also made this drawing:

I'm also seeking out the help of my good friend Abby Bennet for her book-doctor skills. We're going to a workshop tomorrow where hopefully some smart book people will have an idea of how to re-bind my disaster of a book. I cut the cover off, but rebinding it is proving to be problematic because of the way I've glued some of the pages together.

I also acquired a huge amount of aluminum frames, which I've almost finished cutting to size. And I've ordered the rest to complete what I need. I've got those, plus mat board coming my way. I'll still need to get glass and spray paint to blacken the frames that are less-than-black. I'm aiming to frame 9 drawings and 2 paintings that are 7"x11". The frames themselves are 15"x20" so they will have a large border that says "look at how effing important this drawing is."

The frame-fairy saved me a ton of $$ so I am very grateful to him.

Things are on track!

Timekeeping:

painting/drawing/booking/framing: 16.5 hours 

sleep schedule is now 1 hour more stupid

Another late post.

First week back to school was not so smooth, but I had a box of oatmeal raisin cookies to help me through it and I think it's looking up, so no worries. Point being, I didn't really work on IP until this weekend. thankfully I don't have anything better to do with my weekend nights than spend them in the studio until it's light outside again.

I worked on those three paintings, but none of them look great as a whole, so I'm only going to show you details.

I started painting with a wax medium, which I really, really like.

I also continued work on my book, which is making some progress. I might have it finished for the show. Since I've glued chunks of the paper together, I discovered that if I sand the pages for long enough, the words from the pages underneath will start to show through. Some will be backwards so it's disorientating but also a cool effect. The only problem is, the book is totally falling apart . . . I think I might need to rebind it, which I know precious little about, so maybe I'll talk to Brianne.

oy vey, I need to rewrite my thesis.

timekeeping;

painting/booking:15 hours