So What is This About?
I wish to...
- Paint life as it happens.
- Capture life in motion.
- Explore art as a performance.
- Use bold, bright colours.
- Meet more artists.
- Paint more events.
I paint motion and the emotions that have coloured my perceptions of motion. Over the years, this has made me strive to appreciate living in the moment of Now more and more. I wish to pay attention to what is happening immediately around me. I paint live at events. I paint at bars and other places where you would never expect to see an artist. I've painted in churches and I have painted at raves.
I love painting spoken word gatherings. I am inspired by the words.
I enjoy the challenge of producing something on the spot. Sometimes I feel as though I am doing the same thing over and over again, but other times I feel as though each event is different... with a different vibe... and that comes out in the work. The more I paint live, the better I get at it... the more comfortable I feel with it.
I have spoken to a few live painters in other cities... most of them paint bands or festivals. I've painted in a wide range of events. I think live painting could potentially be a painting genre if more artists embraced it personally. I feel it encourages an atmosphere of sharing between artist and audience rather than producing the work in secret.
I can make art easily, and I don't mind if people watch the process and take an interest in what I'm making.
I can produce a painting in an hour, but usually I paint for 2-3 hrs... and the painting almost always sells to someone at the show that night. There's something nostalgic to being at an event that was captured in a work of art, I think. It makes art more accessible because it applies to something that is near and dear to someone who was there. I have an obsession with painting movement and somehow involving the component of "time" in the work... either to show a series of motions and give the viewer the sense that the gestalted shapeforms on the canvas a lead-through a small set of actions, eyes and lips to express emotions... and reinforce my colours as having emotive purpose.
Though I do participate in "traditional" galleries and shows from time to time, I am more interested in the notion of bringing art to the common man or woman in the street who might not even venture into a gallery. I want to put art in front of people who might not otherwise consider it. It makes contemporary art more accessible... and it makes my work more familiar. I meet people randomly and hear about events without even searching because I'm out there. My motions as an artist are seen by others while I paint the motions of others as art. So far, it's been most rewarding.
Participati
Benefits
You can view samples of my work at my art blog for now. A gallery of my live paintings is under construction.
Requirements
I will be live painting for a fundraiser at
the Mariott called The Big Gay Fancy Dress Party on March 20th, 2010.
I will paint the event as it happens and the piece will be completed that night, then auctioned off!
Hope to see you there!
I'm pleased to announce that I will be live painting the nine year anniversary of Word Iz Bond's SPEAK! series at 8pm to 11pm, March 18th, 2010 at The Company House.
I show up at various events in and around Halifax and paint events/evenings/places. 
Has anyone caught fire while I have been painting live at events?