I am now working with a different shop, North CNC https://www.north-cnc.com/ to get the laser cutting done.
The top one, which relates in a way to the ceramic bear I recently featured, looks forward to what may become my latest obsession, the quest for security in various forms at various ages It's about 95% done, but doesn't have a title yet.
The bottom painting I call "Cowboy Mouse" is a throwback to to a mini series I did a couple of years ago spoofing the macho western mystique. It's about 90% done. No shadows yet since I haven't installed bracing on the backs yet.
The Wrong Purple
no matter what I did to Batman and Joker, it still seemed muddy to me. I though it was a value issue so I cranked up the highlights. That helped some, but still didn't feel like the final solution.. I kept looking for problems with the way I had mixed the colors. After that I thought the greens weren't bright enough, and so on and on and on...
Then I read a comment by another artist in an online group I follow. The gist of what she said was that sometimes discordant hues can make a painting look muddy even though the individual paint mixtures are "clean".
All of a sudden I realized that the Joker's suit was the wrong purple. I changed his suit to a more bluish purple< and everything in the painting looked better. I also repositioned the green background shape.
The New Normal
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She says of her recent work: “I ...paint what I can’t see; now I am working on painting what most people (including me) can’t or won’t see. Art isn’t about making pretty pictures that draw admiration. It is about confrontation.
The pandemic gave me time and solitude to gain the confidence and self-understanding to go forward. I wish all artists should be so lucky.”
It shows. The tendency to experiment has been part of Carson’s work as long as I have known her, but her clarity of vision and sense of purpose has grown tenfold since the beginning of the pandemic.
The artist explains: "Babi Yar a Ukrainian monument to the 3,500 Jews massacred in Ukraine during WWII. CNN made a news clip of an old Jewish Ukrainian woman who survived the Holocaust, and the bombing of the Babi Yar monument. She wanted to address Putin, and she did, spitting out his name so violently that one could almost see the spittle on the television screen. She flaunted that she remained alive, but that she wished to live long enough to see Putin dead. She called him a “Bastard.” I imagined her flailing hand turning into giving Putin the finger in the form of a vodka bottle. I did this drawing in less than ten minutes, and there was no thought or planning. It just came off the page. I am not responsible for it.
