DETAIL SHOTS AND SOME PROCESS EXPLANATION

a detail shot from a new piece.  all of this texture will be painted over since the process that i'm using is a reverse painting technique.  i just wanted to capture some of it before it all gets painted over and share.

another detail.  say goodbye.

the brighter colors have all been covered up here with white and i'm starting to simplify all the forms.  this is another piece using the xerox transfer that i mentioned before.  its a little bit confusing if you've never done anything like this. i like to explain to people that its more like a print than a painting.  the original image is from a photograph taken on a recent trip to the bay area (mt. diablo).  I scanned the photograph, collaged a mirror image, making it a symmetrical image, printed it out on a large format xerox machine, and began coloring the black and white xerox with paint.

another step; more simplification

a detail of that step

a final detail shot.  i'll be posting images of the piece when its been transfered and finished.  it'll hardly look the same.  i may have to try a few pieces with this as the final because i love the texture so much.  i remember when i was in school taking my first still-life painting course. i was working on a painting during class and my professor came by to take a look and he didn't say anything for awhile just looking and then after the silence he said, "you know, you'd make a very good abstract painter", hahaha.