The Evidence Series

The Evidence Series begins. This series of paintings explores the idea that the process is revealed by leaving evidence of that process. The way clues are evidence of the process of an event. The system I use is very spontanious and the results are about color, composition and atmosphere.

Thomas Center Paint Out

Spent most of today painting with the Hog Town Plein Air Painters at the Thomas Center Gardens. It's been a while since I did any acrylic painting with a knife but I managed to get 2 decent 5 x 7 s

evidence

Beginning a new series. At least thinking about it A friend mentioned that I paint atmosphere. It's true. It's probably the underlying subject in most of my recent work. Even when I was doing realistic landscapes with watercolor, atmosphere was the subject .

Musical chairs project

This project is a fund raiser for the Alachua county elementary schools music and arts programs. They have a face book fan page with some picks of last years chairs and starting to get some from this year as well. I started this with intentions of making the chair look like bronze and putting a patina on it. The first step was to sand it down and put on a layer of molding paste to give the texture of a bronze casting.

Then I applied some bronze paint  This is actually bronze dust in acrylic so it will take a patina just like real bronze.

Long before I heard I was invite too be in this show I had been collecting the electronic "guts" from musical greeting cards.  Mostly birthday cards.  I got several from my Mom as well.  I've been wanting to do something with them ever since and this seemed like the perfect chance the show was even called " musical chairs"  the original idea was to use these old cards and the assorted sounds, some pretty cheesy.  I decided to find the parts and program them with my own electronic music and spoken word.

Programing the chips is done in 2 ways depending on the type of electronics on the board.  Most of the ones I used here have a simple on board mike and a record button. After soldering on the new wire and adding bigger activating buttons I hold down the record switch on the device and play the sounds.  First I had to make the sounds and the program I show here is Sample Wiz for the ipad.  I used spoken word directly into the app and applied fx and used the key board to compose short, 10 second sound bites. I went thru a series of steps and samples before coming to the conclusion that the complex, multi layed, tracks were to overwhelming for the little computers.  They are designed, after all, to sing happy birthday and that's about it.  So I had to simplify my plan and scale back some of the sounds. The range of sound is narrow.  Bass doesn't come thru the tiny speakers and hi treble distorts. The volume is low.  There is another type of board that has a usb plug in and it slides into the usb on the computer and you can down load any .wav file that will fit.  I used 2 of these to make a "stereo" recording of a train coming into a station,  It goes from one side of the chair to the other,  It's 104 seconds long so I didn't include that in the vid. Who has an attention span that long these days?  Maybe I'll make a separate vid of that.  I also used an app called Nanostudio. This is an amazing program. An entire recording studio on your iphone for 20.00. Kids growing up today that will benefit from this auction, will not be able to appreciate what a leap forward this technology has been. They will add their own discoveries to it for the next leap. The innovation is non stop.
Before now you had to use a powerful computer with lots of memory and very complicated programs called Digital Audio Workstations.(daw)  The iso platform has changed music making. It is now possible for anyone to tap into their musical creativity

 In these shots the chair has been patinaed and I'm in the process of attaching the electronics.  The units vary in the way they activate.  The ones that come directly from the greeting cards require the contact to be held down . The ones I bought toggle on and off. I soldered on longer wires and added buttons.  Two of the units are activated by light. The blue rag is to keep that one from constantly going on.  These have a battery life of about 300 pays.  I don't want to waste them on me.

I ended up using 10 working electronics that vary in length from 10 seconds to 104 seconds. You can bid on this chair and 26 others at the fund raiser on March 2 at the Doris Bardon Art Center.
You can hear more of my electronic music at http://www.photogenicmemory.bandcamp.com/  and some of the sketchier stuff at www.soundcloud.com/pdidit

here is a line to a vid with some of the sounds http://youtu.be/Hb0GUe9uXWI

testing of the voice

okay trying to send a voice to text email from my cellphone who is attached picture to my heart blog well that didn't exactly translate the way I wanted it to but I have laryngitis so that might go for some of the harris paris not harass no not harass a roars no not wars eras okay that supposed to be a rose but air as is close enough yikes this is really getting off the base sarah's key r r o r s okay nevermind

Sent from my Virgin Android

New cards for 2011 holiday

This is some of this years paintings that i gave as cards. All one of a kind originals. I like the idea so much I started a series of these that will be matted to 8x10 and available at the artisans guild gallery Mixed media on paper or small 5x7 canvas.

this is a group shot of several cards before they became cards

this whole series of 16 had the sun/moon/disc shape to give a somewhat landscape feel.  The designs are spontainous as I worked on groups of 8 at a time with no sketches or plan.  The beginning of a series I call "Evidence" 

Pictures in a Photo Show

I got invited to show 3 16 x 20 photos in the Gainesville 10 + 10 photo  show at the Thomas center.  the opening it Dec 3. Here is a sneak preview of what I'm showing

Telluride x4

This is actually one of 4 of the same view at different times and weahter conditions that are in the same frame.   

Make a Wish

Canoe dock.

Hanging a new show

I took down a show at Kanahapa gardens that has been up there for a long time and put a new show at the Jones East side yesterday.  It's sort of a retrospective because I put some old and some new.  It looks pretty cool

 My set up in the parking lot of the Melrose Bay gallery.  This is as far as I got for the first day.  I was working on a collage using grass that I picked around the gallery

At this point I'm almost done.  I have glued down the grass and collaged on one layer of paper. I'm ready to cut the edge and remove the blue tape.

Here I have added some color under the taped off section and around the edges.  I will add one more layer of paper and cover the white bar to increase the curtain effect. 

Sunday morning I framed the grass painting on the tailgate and hung it before heading to  this was location #3 where I joined Linda and Scott for a little lunch. They stayed and painted in this beautiful garden and I moved down the street to location #9

Here's Julie setting up on the dock at #9 I'm at water's edge attempting to do an abstract of the dock. after struggling with it for about 2 hours I gave up and worked on a 12 x 36 of a palm tree I started Saturday in the parking lot.  Here are a couple of shots from my location

 This is the palm tree painting after spraying and scraping and dripping

top detail

 bottom detail

These paintings and what else I can finish this week will be hanging in the Melrose bay and Bellamy road Galleries for the Gala Sat night April 2

Melrose Open Air Art

Here's a link to the gallery website

Lake View Acrylic on Panel

This is the second painting I did from the same yard , different view. This one is built up on top of another painting so there is lots of texture. This is acrylic on and 11 x 14 panel done with the knife. I used the same palette as on the previous painting, q.gold, cerulean blue, q. burnt orange, black and white. These are all golden fluid acrylics.

Andrea's view

This is an 8 x 10 acrylic on canvas that I did out in Melrose today. Bob and I were out there for the OAA paint out and I set up in Andrea's yard to paint this view. I was going for abstract but this came out instead. Still, I like it and it doeshave an abstract quality. It was done with a palette knife and a 3" brush. the canvas was toned with the gray wash that I left as the sky. It was a breezy , partly cloudy day . Just perfect

Haile Village art show

This weekends show was fun despite not great sales.  We had Senesac village again.  Emily was next me and Bob was next to her.  I had a decent show thanks, in part to the new gator buckle (coming soon to the shopping cart) and the sale of 2 paintings.  One was the 16 x 20 from the planet series.  I did 3 paintings in that series and have only one left, the big 24 x 48 with lights and moving part.  I'll be hanging that at the Jones Eastside next month where I'll be hanging a show for April.

New Blog

 I have changed the name of my jewlery blog to jewelry for pete sake and brought all the old post to the new one, however, I was not able to bring the the followers over from jewelryartstudio. So if you are a follower please re-follow. I'll be making all the new posts from there. In the past I have been making most of my post to the facebook page www.facebook.com/jewelryartstudio  I will still be doing that but I'm going to start doing it from the blog first with a link to the FB page. I have several friends who are not on FB and want to keep you all posted. My main store/ website with calendar of events and classes is still at petersenesac.com Thanks!

new designs

one of several new earring designs with stones for the Haile show

Thomas Center Paint Out

These are the 2 12 x 16 paintings I did at the Thomas center. This one is mix media with acrylic and grass in the "window"  I put several layers of grass with medium between to glue it in place.  It's been interesting to watch the grass turn color.  great texture

This one is done with palete knife for texture and layers of wash on the wall section.