Showing posts with label Acrylic Painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Acrylic Painting. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

My Daily Mantra

Its all about the line all of the time.

Some details from a work in progress below:










It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.
- Alberto Giacometti

Friday, March 7, 2014

Mickey Puke

The third Mickey Mouse looks as though he is throwing himself up, or rather out.  Painting is a form of survival, right?  Or at least the best way to cope with a mouse problem.  Our house is now over run by many, many Minnie Mice!  I blame the character placement on Huggies diapers.  It has primed our little one to be a consumer of all things Minnie.

This is a painting of Mickey and Minnie Mouse by artist Dawn Hunter.


This is a detail of the painting Mickey Puke by Dawn Hunter, it highlights the texture and painterly aspects of the painting.


This is a detail of the linear work from the painting Mickey Puke by artist Dawn Hunter.


This is a detail of Minnie Mouse featured in the bottom left corner of the painting Mickey Puke by artist Dawn Hunter.


This is a detail of the texture in the painting Mickey Puke by artist Dawn Hunter.


We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.

- Terence McKenna

Saturday, January 4, 2014

A New Year, a new painting

No greater excitement than in starting a new painting.  Every mark full of the potential for a brilliant outcome.  Here is to striving to maintaining the carefree attitude of a painting's beginning throughout!

This is a process image of a painting in progress by artist Dawn Hunter of Mickey and Minnie Mouse.


This is a detail of a painting in progress by artist Dawn Hunter.


“Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.” 

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road