Now that I have the figures made I go to my trusty supply of paint rags, gloves and empty paint tubes and medium containers, as well as a slew of crusty paintbrushes and broken palette knives. I knew I’ve been saving these all these years for a reason. I see it as a sill life slash landscape slash multi-figure scene. There is no narrative in the traditional sense at this point; after all this time both my ideas and drawing/painting skills will be rusty. This first painting will be getting me back into the swing of things/ a springboard into this new work. The figures are placed in a reaction to Gauguin’s composition and have no special significance to each other, although there is some history to the figures in the background; Scott Weiland in the middle of Axl (he has no hair yet, I need to get some more dolls) and Slash (formally of Guns N’ Roses) while Slash and Weiland have teamed up in Velvet Revolver (Axl is milking the Guns N’ Roses name for all it’s worth, and he’s still an asshole I hear).
In the foreground I used a well know photo of Kurt Cobain doing a flip while playing guitar (here he’s playing a paintbrush) and Cornell is looking out confronting the viewer as if to say ‘Don’t you remember me? I was just as influential as Kurt.’
So, we’ll see where this goes. Right now these guys are just representing the creative mind, or the creative part of the mind. A landscape of the mind????
What the fuck is painting anyway, a pretty picture?
Do you know anyone else who goes through this much effort to the pre-painting?
Bill Belichick would be proud.
"You should never pick up your paintbrush unless your heart is fully attached to it."
-Jacob Lawrence
I don't buy that for a second, and I hope he doesn't either.
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