This is the finished collage, and tempering. I will attempt to finish the final painting next.

This is called tempering the canvas. It is something I learned from Sante Fe pop artist Patrick Harris. Patrick is originally from SF and had a show and workshop at the Washington Pavilion Visual Arts Center. The process basically involves putting down several layers of color and gesso, and after each layer dries, you scrape or wash away ‘some’ of the color. This is the first layer. I’m not sure how many I will put down before I start painting the final image. I will probably do the collage next, so I will try to stay away from wasting paint in the collage areas.

 

I did this painting for the Iraq War Peace Rally Art show at Michelle’s coffee this Sunday from 3 – 5 PM.

It kinda creeps me out.

CHENEYSTEIN

16 x 20″ – Mixed media on Canvas – $50 Unframed.

 

This is the sketch for the painting of Hunter S. Thompson. The painting will have collage on either side of his head in the blank areas. the rest will be paint and ink.

My good friend Berit will be working for this guy as one of his assistants:
http://travel.discovery.com/tv/bizarre-foods/andrew-zimmern.html

Pretty cool job.

 

Berit has a culinary degree and is working on her English degree.

http://www.sdscrounge.blogspot.com/

A few years back a wrote a letter to the Argus Leader protesting the naming of a SF elementary school after SD ‘Illustrator’ Terry Redlin. Well the fine people at the Terry Redlin museum thought it would be appropriate to frame the letter and hang it in their lobby. That was about 8 years ago! Well it is still there. Ah, get over it! Here’s some pictures just took yesterday. (Hat tip, Chris and Jeff). If I wasn’t so lazy, I would re-type the letter. (If you save the JPG to your desktop and maximize it a bit, you should be able to read it).

THIS IS AN EMAIL I SENT THE MUSEUM TODAY:

I had some friends recently visit your museum to see the ‘Illustrations’ of Terry Redlin. Like many of my friends that come by, they always get a good ‘chuckle’ out of my letter (nicely framed, BTW) in the lobby. Several of my friends and family have taken their picture next to it. I tell people it is the ONLY tourist attraction in Watertown. Terry has made himself a millionaire ‘selling’ his brand of South Dakota nostalgia to the rest of the world, and how does he honor SD for this priviledge? He builds a museum in honor of himself! And I’m the only other SD artist to be on display there! Fabulous!

Sarah’s art has biting commentary matched with light-hearted drawings. A great satirical pairing.

http://smorean.com

This is 13 of the paintings we (Jamie Scarbrough, Hope Happeny, Eyob Mergia, Scott Ehrisman) did for the ‘Color of Sound’.

All of the paintings are of various sizes, and available for sale.