♬ Roll out... ♬

I grabbed the remaining supplies that were necessary to undertake this project and got down to the studio for a late night session to get me back on track with this project.

To begin, I had some ordering to do to open up the long wall in my studio. Stacked my paintings, moved a bunch of stuff around and took a load to the Epcor UAS +15 space that I will be in residency for, for the next 2 months.

Play this Ludacris video "roll out" to add to the feeling of this process blog :)

I rolled out the canvas and stapled it along the wall. Got the flat black onto the paint roller and began to roll it out......................
Lots of splatter.
Doesn't matter.
The wall is blacker.
The job's done faster.
 ♬ Roll out, Roll out, Roll out!  ♬

Staples: A love/hate relationship

So in keeping with the flames of passion for creativity raging......... I meet in battle in a love/hate relationship with my constant foe. Staples!

I'm in the studio and so proud of all the white surface I have hung, I decide after a little re-arranging that I might as well and get started on the work I know I am going to have to do in the near future anyhow. Some of the discount canvases I have purchased in the past were mainly for the support/lumber.  I had to pull out each and every staple in order to stretch my much thicker and higher quality canvas over them.

I loosen each with a heckles knife blade. Then pull them with pliers and place them in a silver goblet so I don't wind up stepping on them later.  Here is a pile of cheap 18 X24" pine stretchers from Michaels. Everyone was punctured so I cut off the tho canvas to be replaced by 15 Oz, triple gessoed stretched by me quality/

Here are just a few done by the end of the day, waiting to be primed.

Hot Potato

I started with a very rough HB sketch in the style of Tex Avery. I outlined it quickly with my Copic marker followed by some line work with a pilot Hi-tecpoint V5 grip. I borrowed a red fineliner for a few small details and filled the remainder of the picture in with a bunch of colorful staples brand highlighters.  And all in under 1/2 hr;) Now that is a fun reason to draw!

That would be the face you'd make if you just saw the french fry cutter and hot deep frying oil!