Completed "Issues" Painting
(woohoo, I got it done!)

Worked really hard to get all the glitter glued onto all the letters yesterday and today... It was quite laborious. The critique was this afternoon and for once it was an unqualified success. Fellow classmates GOT the message of hypocrisy and homophobia, and the instructor really thought it was a good painting, that it worked on several levels.

Click on the image for the best view.

W.I.P.
(Work In Progress)
:-)

I have made peace with my new painting instructor! I had a good talk with him and got some information on his critiquing goals, the varying skill levels of other students in the class and other stuff. It felt great to talk to him directly rather than harbor a resentment that would eventually end with me ditching the class.

So here's a very preliminary look at my latest masterpiece. This painting had to be about a social/political issue, and it had to incorporate text or borrowed image in some way. My completed painting, if I ever accomplish it, is going to have all this text in pink glitter running across the canvas, with some scrawled homophobic slurs cutting into the text. The idea being: the hypocrisy of closeted gay Fundamentalist religious leaders contributes to hatred of the GLBT community. Hopefully that's what will come across, although I guess it's open to other interpretations as well...

I have only a few words done in the glitter right now, the rest are just traced out and the critique is Thursday! Oy Oy Oy!!!

A Potential Commission!!!
:-O !!!

Hope I'm not jinxing this, but last Thursday I showed my recent artwork to a person in my life who has been functioning as one of my creative/professional mentors and this person then asked me if I'd do a piece of artwork for his business! More details to come.

He responded best to my Expressive Psychodrama work, like this piece here (entitled "Today's Angst," seen here avec my toesies and yellow flip-flops; click to enlarge). This has been one of my big concerns: I've been under the untested belief for a long time that the only person who would "get" this type of work is my therapist.

Maybe I am indeed turning Pro!

In non-Art related newz, I saw Rufus Wainwright in concert this weekend-- a concert date which was part of his "Release the Stars" tour; he did some kick-ass Judy Garland tributes as well. He was amazing and fabulously gay and glittery. If you're not familiar with his music, download it immediately: I command you!