I did this piece in about 3-4 hrs during the Urban Island Jamboree put on by Art Milwaukee last night. I gotta admit, it didn't start out that great and, as the theme seems to go, I wasn't exactly "confident" as we hit the 1 hour mark. But the background is always the hard part. I seem to always want the "subject" put down first when even I know that I always work better with a background color or texture. With the humidity yesterday, the paint didn't dry quite as quickly as I was used to, which created some mixing, removing, and changing of colors that were not completely intended. THere were countless times i went to the canvas to put down a mark and ended up scraping globs of paint off with the pastel. There were times i meant to put a dash of vibrant color but came up with muddled tones that would rather be found in the mud than on a painting. But through all this toiling and frustration came an extremely detailed and layered piece that surprised even me with it's...depth and vibrancy. If you can't see it, the subject is a person who doubles as a piano, the keys protruding from the left shoulder, with the audience, the music, the emotion, and the setting becoming a jumbled pile of forgotten objects. The performance isn't what the viewer sees, but the "castrophany" (to quote a gorillaz song, "catastrophic symphony") that reverberates and grows to life within the player...
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