forestfirepainting
Originally uploaded by cayetanovalenzuela
here is a small painting I did yesterday. I have been working small for the last few paintings but i fully intend to make work like this that is much larger.
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Friday, July 02, 2010
night painting#3
night painting#3
Originally uploaded by cayetanovalenzuela
here is on I made last night and finished up this morning. It is a small painting I am going to sell.
Thursday, July 01, 2010
Summer in Abandon
I have to admit that I have been a little scant on the amount of painting I have been doing. I have been doing a little commercial work and actually turning down jobs. I have reached a point where I can't just do every job that comes along at whatever the person wants to pay me. So I am saying no and that has been liberating. I have been trying to get back to a way of painting that is more or less like my earlier stuff ie painting light in nightscapes. I am sure of the direction I am headed in but I am not sure what the destination will be. I just know that I am going to create work that is extraordinary. That is my intent anyway. I have been thinking about my best paintings and they always seem to be the ones that I begin and think "I wont be able to paint this. The image in my head is better than I know how to paint". In the end the painting becomes real. So that is what I am aiming for now. Painting better than I think I can.
Here are a couple of paintings that are sketches really. They are very small and I want to make images in this way but fairly large.
I have also been painting over old images which is sort of cathartic. I had contemplated burning old paintings but I think I will just continue to paint over them. One I am working on now is an image of a family on the porch of a house and I painted over the mother and most of the house to make way for a sort of lake side image that the children only half inhabit. I really want the images to sink into a fluid and haunting space that works like memory, with overlaps and repetition and so on. I guess I want fluidity and strange light.
Here is the work in progress....
Here are a couple of paintings that are sketches really. They are very small and I want to make images in this way but fairly large.
I have also been painting over old images which is sort of cathartic. I had contemplated burning old paintings but I think I will just continue to paint over them. One I am working on now is an image of a family on the porch of a house and I painted over the mother and most of the house to make way for a sort of lake side image that the children only half inhabit. I really want the images to sink into a fluid and haunting space that works like memory, with overlaps and repetition and so on. I guess I want fluidity and strange light.
Here is the work in progress....
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Spring painting and cleaning
So I have been printing and running into a lot of snags with this skull image. I am hopeful that tomorrow will yield killer results. I have been invited to be in a group show in LA at Miss Scarlet in the Parlor. I am pretty stoked to be on the west coast finally. I was toying with the idea of flying out for the opening but money is a bit of an issue these days. I have to save up for the summer with the baby and all I am not sure how much extra we will need. Any way I know exactly what I am sending out there. I think a smattering of my best small pieces and a new large painting I am working on right now. I am still taking the MARK 10 class bust getting a little disillusioned with it. Class nears to a close I don't think I have really learned too much. A litter here and there about resources but ...I dunno. The people are great though, thats my favorite part. I have met some cool people. Any way, here is a painting on tea dyed paper I did for fun a few weeks ago.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Drink Up Buttercup Flyer/ soon to be screen print.
Drink Up Buttercup Flyer/ soon to be screen print.
Originally uploaded by cayetanovalenzuela
Here is another flyer I did for the Indie Series. This will be a screen print that I am doing as part of Texas Prints. That is the name of the shop that Ted Casper I and have put together. We have been busy and plan to stay that way for the duration. So far we have printed some shirts for folks over at SUNY OSWEGO, the Highlights 7" cover and shirts for the wonderful Jeff Rowe. We will be printing the Mayflower record sleeves and abunch more posters. That includes the Skull image from the last post. At some point when I feel confident I will also print the Kingdom image, I promise. Get psyched for screen prints!
Monday, February 15, 2010
skull
skull
Originally uploaded by cayetanovalenzuela
Ok this image is really close to being printed. I have the paper punched and everything. This will be one of the prints for Hat Factory and will be sold in the esty store as well as at C2 on N. Selana st. in SYR. as well as Midnight Sun here in Oswego.
A MIghty Ship for the Dreamers to Sail!!
So It has been a while since I posted but let me tell you the last few months have been full of excitement. My Daughter is now just about six months old and just starting to say words. She is just awesome!!!!
In any event, here is the skinny: I got into a class put on by NYSFA all about the business of art. In this class we focus our energies in order to maximize our potential as artists. Sounds interesting right. I thought so too. My sister and I are taking it together. Apparently there are about 6 or seven other sites taking the same class all around the state. Each group will be working together and with the larger group to promote each others work.
The only hiccup is that I haven't really been painting as much lately. I have been doing more illustration work as you can see from my previous posts from my flickr page.
I am going to have an interview in a french canadian art and culture magazine called Baron. they will send me a copy when it comes out and even though it will be in french I am excited. I sent them some nice images of paintings. In the last few weeks MY stuff has been popping up on blogs left and right. I am not exactly sure why but I am not complaining. FFFFOund, Icon-ology, blog22 are a few places that my stuff is on as well as being featured on a number of other sites.
Also on top of making some sweet cover art for bands that I love I am going to be making a movie poster for an independent film called the Discoverers. The folks I have been talking to about this movie seem cool and the movie sounds awesome. I have a pretty good feeling that the movie will be great. I am stoked too because my buddy and I just finished setting up our screen printing studio and we will be the printers of said movie poster. The run will be anywhere from 100- 500. Doing a run that large with four colors will be fun and challenging. I've got to say I am excited about this.
I have some paintings that I have yet to post but I haven't gotten around to taking nice pictures of them. Like I said I have been doing more illustration stuff for the past few months. Be AWARE: I will be rolling out a new print in the next few weeks or so through Hat Factory. It is going to be the skull image that I posted earlier with a hand drawn font in the frame. I have a feeling these will go like HOT CAKES. I will also do a color variant. I am thinking a run of 30-HF prints and 20 of the color variant. Not sure on those numbers yet.
Other than that I have been getting in to primitive skills lately. I built a bow out of Hickory and Black Walnut wood. I am also excited to have an Heirloom garden this spring/sumer/fall. Some buddies of mine are getting into bee keeping and I am going to help them build a hive box!
In any event, here is the skinny: I got into a class put on by NYSFA all about the business of art. In this class we focus our energies in order to maximize our potential as artists. Sounds interesting right. I thought so too. My sister and I are taking it together. Apparently there are about 6 or seven other sites taking the same class all around the state. Each group will be working together and with the larger group to promote each others work.
The only hiccup is that I haven't really been painting as much lately. I have been doing more illustration work as you can see from my previous posts from my flickr page.
I am going to have an interview in a french canadian art and culture magazine called Baron. they will send me a copy when it comes out and even though it will be in french I am excited. I sent them some nice images of paintings. In the last few weeks MY stuff has been popping up on blogs left and right. I am not exactly sure why but I am not complaining. FFFFOund, Icon-ology, blog22 are a few places that my stuff is on as well as being featured on a number of other sites.
Also on top of making some sweet cover art for bands that I love I am going to be making a movie poster for an independent film called the Discoverers. The folks I have been talking to about this movie seem cool and the movie sounds awesome. I have a pretty good feeling that the movie will be great. I am stoked too because my buddy and I just finished setting up our screen printing studio and we will be the printers of said movie poster. The run will be anywhere from 100- 500. Doing a run that large with four colors will be fun and challenging. I've got to say I am excited about this.
I have some paintings that I have yet to post but I haven't gotten around to taking nice pictures of them. Like I said I have been doing more illustration stuff for the past few months. Be AWARE: I will be rolling out a new print in the next few weeks or so through Hat Factory. It is going to be the skull image that I posted earlier with a hand drawn font in the frame. I have a feeling these will go like HOT CAKES. I will also do a color variant. I am thinking a run of 30-HF prints and 20 of the color variant. Not sure on those numbers yet.
Other than that I have been getting in to primitive skills lately. I built a bow out of Hickory and Black Walnut wood. I am also excited to have an Heirloom garden this spring/sumer/fall. Some buddies of mine are getting into bee keeping and I am going to help them build a hive box!
Friday, January 22, 2010
Lots of art coming soon.
I will be posting a bunch of art soon. I have been doing a lot of illustration. I have also been making a Bow. like y'know wooden bow. It is awesome. ALso I think I will start posting some music from my friends bands.
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