Alone with the elves

The Empty

The Crazy

The Hopeful

The Pleading

The Seething

The Innocent

The Thought Inbetween

The End

Acrylics on paper, 6.5"x10" and 10"x13"

Completed at Gullkistan Residency in Iceland (gullkistan.is)

Leftovers from Þorrablót

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And also I still paint

Suwon

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Luis

Acrylic on paper

More to come!

-em

Wrapping up

So my time here at VSC is just about over.

It's been really great.

I mean, what could be better?

So, let me show you some drawings

                        L'Orgine du Monde

-em

Emerson Finishes things

Hey friends,

So, I wasn't sure if it was going to happen, but I finished a painting. It's tentatively titled, "Wait." 

The texture here is achieved with several layers of oil paint, which after dry, I rub over with charcoal, and then push around with mineral spirits. While that's still kind of wet I put a dry wax medium over it with a palette knife. It makes this really beautiful transparency, and you can sort of control how translucent you want it to be. Then I flicked a little bit of white paint on top of that, and that's pretty much it. Is this sort of thing interesting? I am really tired.

Okay, so actually I had finished another painting before that one, but I only kind of count it since it's quite small (around 16"x20"). This one is titled, "Meditation at the End of the World."

I have one more day to paint in oil and then I need to start letting things dry if I'm going to be able to ship them before I leave here. I'm reaaally hoping to finish this other painting, but we'll see.

until next time

Em

Sleepy eyes and subzero temperatures

Hey friends,

Here are a couple more things I've been working on. They are details of paintings that are roughly 3'x5'.

Sometimes when I paint, Mother Earth is like,"yo, wtf."

VSC

Hey yall, I'm making art again so I'm going to start blogging again.

I'm in a beautiful place called the Vermont Studio Center.

Here's something I've been working on:

The End

Hey all,

I don't really know if anyone still reads this, but this is the post that says that I won't be blogging for a while. I'll start again once I start making some more art, but right now my studio is disassembled and I'll be moving around for a little bit.

IP is over, but I'd like to continue this blog. Maybe I can rename it. I don't know much about blogger. I'll call it like . . . LP: Life Project. Part one. The reckoning.

How's that sound?

It's been great. Wonderful. Too much fun. And very rewarding. And I'm going to miss everyone and this whole experience a lot.

ta ta for now,
Emerson