ER on Wired Today

Clive Thompson, bon vivant and scribe of the splendid Collision Detection blahg, mention me in an article about gaming and art on Wired today.

http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/commentary/games/2007/07/games_frontiers_0730

These are the pictures he mentions.

Alyx, acrylic on paper, 22 x 30


Village Street, acrylic on paper, I forget how big.

There'll be more of these soon, and another possible massive project that's too iffy to talk about until it firms up a little more.

I am LOOKing-uh. For SARah. CONNOR!uh. Sarah CONNOR!uh!

It's the Heat, AND the Humidity

Now, it's a cool 85 here in HQ (seriously, at 7% humidity, 85 can be cool), so don't think I'm about to melt or anything, but look at this:



7% humidity. I was just pulling a print (huh huh huh) and man, the ink was drying in a few minutes. This is very different than San Francisco, where I used to live.

(Did I talk about this here already? If so, sorry.)

I work primarily in water-based media (printing ink and acrylic paints) because I am lazy and a slob, and this makes cleanup much easier. But you get so little working time here with water-based media here. I've started poking at oil paints, as fine-print readers of elreyart.com may have noticed; originally, the idea was that I could poke at paintings for more than one session.

But though I've always worked quickly (once I get started, that is), in this different atmosphere it feels more like speed-art, to paint or print before the ink/paint on the palette/ink-spreader surface congeals and becomes worthless. Which is good in its way.

Today has me thinking that maybe I wouldn't feel as rushed if I was all oil-based, everywhere. Maybe as I run out of ink and paint I'll restock with oil-based replacements.

Sylar: More Painterly

I made this composite right after the show aired, but didn't want to post it immediately so as not to be spoilerific, and then, of course, forgot about it.

A couple of weeks ago, in the show Heroes, the evil Sylar got the power to paint the future. They showed his version of basically the same painting that "Mr. Esok" had done earlier.




Sylar's is the top one. So much more interesting!

Also, every show should have more Hiro and Ando and no Jessica/Niki at all.

Last Night's Objets

I’m feeling the pull to do stuff that has a little more crazy to it:
http://jamesbarnett.net/past/alyx12005.html

I have a roll of wallpaper. Maybe I’ll get nuts on it and if something works, glue it to a board.

The Indignities of Modern Life

Well, www.myspace.com/elreyart exists now.

Also, there's Flickr and Phoenix Art Space.

By all means, add me whereever. I'm stocking up on my THANKS 4 THA ADD!! animated glittery gifs as we speak.

House in Order

There. All tidied up. Put the official headshots of recent paintings up on elreyart.com for sale sale sale! And I got a simple portfolio going over at jamesbarnett.net to spam galleries with. I think I clean up pretty decently, if you don't mind me saying so.

Feeling pretty decent about things.

Hats Make the Man

Yet another series begun! 12×16, acrylic on wood backed by 1 x 2s.

I'm listening to the audiobook version of Michael Connelly's Echo Park while I paint. I don't like the reader dude much, and it's sort of wrecking it. It is pulling me into the "studio" more, though, because I want to hear more of the story.

Last audiobook-while-painting was Max Brooks' World War Z, with an actual all-star (for audioboks) cast (John Turturro, Alan Alda, Carl and Rob Reiner, Mark Hamill, Henry Rollins). Now THAT was a good listen.

Apropos of nothing at all, really.