The scar is to be framed!

Miles Frode-Fine Art Blog # 34

all but the bicycle in this above photo painted by Miles

 Last Tuesday a trip to The local Craft Warehouse
got me some of my favorite shape n' size canvas
8x24 acrylic, latex and india ink

 above Step 1- freeform color application

 Step 2- feeling too balanced i, opted to wipe/push a drop cloth around a bit.

Right is the drop cloth drying used in Step 2

above Step 3- I 'scratched' or "sgraffito'd exiting marks with the butt of the brush"

 Above Step 4-india inks initial play (mostly for balance)

 Above Step 5/6-Muting/painting out certain area to reassign depth and shapes. +sgraffito

 Above Step 7- adding playfully a Dark color

 Above Step 8- Adding back in Light color

 Above Step 9-Adding back subtlety defining india ink

So these photos Above reflect the steps across 2 days to the first stopping and fermenting stage.

This is where it sits now as i will live with them and listen with my eyes and heart to their story.

A few close ups of the cool sgraffito marks in the beginning
























This last week i was blessed to co-teach a surface design class with my Mom and fellow Designer.

Below is a little free-sewn piece of mine
done after my lesson while at my moms studio.

Black Linnen 

Below is one of my first plays with new outside box techniques for Photos.

 Above is a progression of a painting from the last 2 years
i'd started working into last blog.

For those Tech heads…I just got my first official Palette knife
This black canvas piece with new red's is my first play with it.

 Acrylic, india ink, latex and paper collage

 Below is another piece i have been evolving with over the last 3+ years
What started out as a HUGE piece that turned to a collaborative piece with an ex
was then cut into pieces, this the largest piece was stretched in the last 4 months.

 I have been Pushing myself even more than normal in my art…
As i evolve hundreds of paintings over thousands of days in various mindsets,
physical conditions, across state lines... i listen to them…each a front feather i use to fly for however
long they need/allow to then be nestled back into the Q…The Line..
the tumbling in my life….

 This face i initially saw as a Buddha above the skeleton
i now see as an old love interest, when i still didn't know what to do with having such an
important and precious love to hold/share.

These elements that are pieces of my personal history are no longer to be hidden and cropped out.

The scar is to be framed!

 PLEASE-  To ease the plea

Below is a piece id started the last few months

'that i took out of line' and started working intentionally on the last week.

 Below is an example i created while sharing the 2 main techniques i taught recently, combined.

Let me know if you are interest in being part of the next class i get lined up,
or if you are interested in a personal class.

Below is a 'Mod-Piece'
-short for modified.

 I added the Black india ink and the White Gesso

Above is an artsy abstracted version of the above photo.
           NO DIGITAL EDITS-

Below-The Foam Print i cut to share my lesson

 and i leave you here with a moment of….Zen?
(Daily Show Shout out!)

Try something crazy this week!
Scratch up some photos…
                    Paint REALLY messy on top of a beautiful piece of Canvas as a drop cloth…
take 3 colour block'y watercolors and close your eyes and CAREFULLY cut them up…

or take a roll of photos from the perspective of composition..
as if each weren't images of things and places doing things..
but as abstract paintings without focus or defined edges..

                    COMMENT AND KEEP ME POSTED
Lemme know how you messed up on purpose this week!

May The Muse Be With You!
            Miles Frode