Upon my mentor's suggestion, I'm trying to revisit the big, chaotic scrolls I've been making and either add a focal point, or paint over parts I don't like to create a path. I have been listening to a lot of Joseph Campell's the Power of Myth on audiotape, and sure enough what comes to the fore are monsters, journeys and dragons.Lots of work left to do... I'll keep adding and subtracting until something effective starts to happen!
This one I'm enjoying very much. It's probably about 5 feet tall at this point? It was a smallish picture of a castle--- I had small square pictures on the floor of my studio and thought they looked like windows. I cut up the castle, extended it, added a giant dragon at the base of it. Trying to use variety in scale and markmaking.
Finally, painted over a big portion of this big scroll/paper from late August, early September. My plan is to morph it into a landscape, and then have the characters I was thinking about earlier in the summer trekking through it. The mountains might be a little too literal, but after a month's hiatus, I missed them! Giving 'em a shot. The image after it is one I developed from a bunch of circles of old work-- added my cat Kitty as a guardian (disguised as a Tibetan Snow Lion-- inspired by the last visit to the MFA). She's protecting and/or farting out the stuff of my life. Classy, no? Needs alot of work-- i don't like the face.
