Crane, Dragonfly and Bird, ink and watercolor on paper. In my tireless quest to adapt Chinese painting techniques and materials to more modern content, I find myself recombining and juxtaposing certain elements with alarming regularity. My Chinese calligraphy has probably benefitted more than other elements of my painting from being in China this last year. Hopefully my brushwork also gets better over time. It should all peak when I am on my deathbed. This painting has the Chinese phrase that can roughly be translated, `A success measures their own strength and then acts'. The loose brush strokes transport this painting from just a post-modern ironic narrative to something a touch more visceral.
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This is one of the large painting I have been working on. It measures about 4'x7'. It hangs as a scroll. I'm trying to figure out how to mount large scrolls by myself. It is labor intensive and I definitely haven't perfected it yet. This one has a respectable amount of negative space for the viewer to fill with whatever it is they look to fill empty spaces with.
I've been putting a lot of words into my paintings lately. Hello Kitty is one example. I think doing a lot of paintings with Chinese calligraphy in them has inspired me to use English....especially since most people who see the paintings don't read Chinese.
