The beauty of things you never consider

Titan Arum man is coming along well. He should be done in time for the show, which needs to be hung in – gads – a little more than two weeks.

The slightly larger painting that I have high hopes for is still giving me fits.

Don’t know if it will be done in time.

Of Two Minds

Oil on canvas, 12″ x 12″.

Titan arum

The Corpse Flower is freakishly large and smells bad, by all accounts. I haven’t seen or smelled one in real life. It is on my mind today, though, as it is extraordinarily phallic  in appearance.

I came to a point today where the most logical next move was to add a penis to a particular painting. This is, after all, a show inspired by animus. For it to be entirely dickless would be strange. But the last time I showed a painting that included a penis- an ambiguous shape that MAY have been a penis, really- I annoyed a bunch of people at a church. The painting was hidden in a closet. So I hesitate.

In a compromise that some might call a pussy move – okay, now I’ve offended everyone I might know so thank gourd nobody reads this blog- I am thinking about letting phallic flowers stand in for penises. But it may too coy and smarmy and clever. I don’t know.

In the meantime, nothing large is finished but slow progress continues.

 

 

Desperado

I have four weeks left to finish some big paintings for this show.

Progress in the studio is steady but slow. I am covered in paint and sweat. It isn’t pretty.

Morpho

Oil on canvas, 14″ x 14″.

Brevity & Joy

Oil on canvas, 26″x 21″.

Fever Demon

Oil on Canvas, 14″ x 14″.

Velocity of a Dream Deferred

Oil on Canvas, 16″ x 16″.

Sara-lou

Oil on canvas, 16″ x 16″.

I’m happy about finishing this one without overworking it.

I may grab “Yo Veulo” back and rework it, try to simplify it and paint some parts out if I have time.

Dreadful sinus infection and low energy.

Elizabeth (godspeed and the shimmering glimpse)

Oil on canvas, 16″ x 16″.