Pickman at the Fair

I am not a Plein Air painter unless we are talking about a completely different plane of reality and there is something 60s in the air. But yesterday at the Siverado Country Fair I set up my easel under an umbrella and did my best Pickman`s Model.

Back in 1989 – 1990 I got into a painting obsession. I created 60 paintings in 7 months, two of them very large scale. The largest of the two was 8 foot by 30 foot and was painted in one afternoon for a Halloween funhouse. Grays into a wet black background, the background being painted by a team rushing ahead with me hot on their heals.

My style changed radically in the rush of all the head long creativity. I developed a technique that was all unconscious mind dump. Never think with the brush in my hand. Analyze but never while I was painting. Zen attack of action. Death to the overworked canvas. Long live energy and spontaneity!

I added something to the mix yesterday. A little out growth of the Animation Jams I have been putting on. I brought my camera stand and did a time laps from blank canvas to finished work. (started at 10 AM finished at 2 PM you can see the sun in the last couple of images before I started blocking it.)