24 x 36" Oil On Canvas (2004-2005 Styles)
"Press Off Style" + above "Colidescape" style results in the style below.
Call this style below "Marbleagescape".
This realistic style is fun, but I had to figure out how to incorporate my marble blends and in the process of making those double sided artist promo cards I developed the style at the bottom.
Oil On Wood Panel called "Left, Right, Left" DMWRIGHT 06 -07'
(3 Realistic Wave Paintings Above are all oil on canvas, Two are 30x40" other 24 x 16" - One is In Canada , The limey green one is in LA, and the last one is in Texas,)
So I had to Figure Out How to better use these fishlike marble blends over a color treated background.
And the solution is below.
Call This Style "Psychadelic Mosaic" DMWRIGHT 2010
(I've never seen a mosaic made of stones who's color range (in one individual stone piece) was so vivid/intense, and contained whole color spectrums - with both hot cold colors in one piece,
(The only stone I know that contains such a wide variety of colors is opal).
Using my marble blends is like having a toolbox/tool kit full of perfect rich (color-blended) brush strokes that contain every color I want in one pull.
(I could never get such fine color blends w/out using this technique) It's everything I wanted and more. Gotta go all out and make this a series on canvas and wood panel.
Probably the best idea I had since that Andy Warhol Velvet Underground Banana response piece I came up with a few weeks back.
NEWEST STYLE I'm Most Proud Of.
I call this
"Scared of a Buncha Water, Then Get Out The Rain"
(cuz I'm taking the form of water in this piece, via marble blended raindrops)
Acrylic + Collage on Illustration Board.
DMWRIGHT 2010 Psychadelic Mosaic Style.
Was supposed to be 4-6 inches. Ended Up about 14 inches. And I'm sending it to a friend for being super encouraging.
She was stoked on the marble blend style. So I said I'd send a little bonus for being cool.
That "little bonus" became this here.
It resulted in me forming a new "style" through random experimentation, somehow it all came together.
Super Stoked - It Hits hard - It Moves alot -but it locks up too, in an elegant but hardcore fashion.
Can't wait to go big with this.
Created the piece during a period of two days last Monday and Tuesday where it was raining pretty hard for socal.
& kept playing a song from a Dangerdoom called Sofa King -song starts
"scared of a buncha water - then get out the rain"
So I'm driving runing errands in the rain listening to this song,.... then developed this style at the same time w/marble raindrops.
Had to force/mash in the hiphop conection in there with the hip hop/rap related title.
Favorite Part is the Swordfish shape trying to jump up and eat the dolphin shape (at top left. w/the firey offshore breeze in background)
Another area that lends itself to interest is top left where it looks like a dolphin is trying to get at a beachball by jumping up the falls of the cresting wave.
Or the Bird trying to eat humming bird like shape where the lip is touching down in the middle of the piece.
Each shape's grains are matched to the surface of the waveface, and each shape/color plays off the other - creating a loose/free/earthy/organic network of shapes that lock up to create structure, but also flow through like water due to the freedom the marble color blends provide.
Marble Blends are probably the best idea I've ever come up with to date.
(My crafts-people/ hippie parents used to let me as a kid 8-10 years old drip different colored candle waxes together to create this big chunk of color blended wax like a 10-12 inch wide psychadelic colored snowflake - it was alot of fun -and certainly too dangerous to let me do by myself)
But I probably wouldn't care about color balance as much as I do now, without them encouraging such random activities, allowing me to explore with colors and various materials at an early age.
Elmers when I was a kid (for a while debuted multiple colored glues),
& I used to make that colored glue squeeze out of the sides of pieces I collaged onto paper.
Liquid color always excited me & still does at age 28.
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