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walk
acrylic on plywood
15x9.5
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Sunday, November 4, 2012
Friday, November 2, 2012
Ted
Ted... Ted is one of those long running projects that becomes a huge part of your life, to the extent of personification. He began to take shape December 2009. Prior to this, I had built a frame for a painting which ended out not fitting. The frame sat around for a while before I mounted chicken wire into it. Then is sat again until that fateful December day. Ted's head is based from the Easter Island statues. The field surrounding his head in the framed area is an image transfer process using acrylic gel and photocopies of pictures of mass graves. While at Ikea waiting to make a return I came up with an idea to build Ted's frame into a kind of monolith, sort of like 2001 a Space Odyssey. The monolith is built from a 2x12 stud wall, sheathed in plywood, covered with canvas and painted. At one point I thought of covering the monolith in tar, in fiberglass, and considered resin(big surprise there) Another inspiration came after watching Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams. I sketched out ideas for images that could be a sort of Polynesian version of cave paintings. I finished the paintings September of 2012. A final protective coat will be applied by the end of 2013, but I can finally say that Ted is essentially done.
It's bittersweet really. Ted's been both a joy and pain but that's how passion projects go. He is 6'-4.5" tall, 4'-4"wide, and weighs a virtual ton.
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| Day 1, Ted is born |
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| Ted's chicken wire is all covered over |
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| Ted's first paint color |
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| Ted gets taller |
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| Plywood Sheathing |
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| New colors for Ted |
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| drawing the "cave painting figures" with my nephew Luke |
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| Ted's front side |
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| Ted's profile |
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| Ted's backside |
Bob
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| 20.75 x 11.5 Acrylic on Plywood |
Monday, October 22, 2012
I've recently begun posting art on http://fineartamerica.com/ and on a new facebook page http://www.facebook.com/artpage4DavidTaylor
For the fine art america site I typed up a new bio page, thought to repost it here.
My artistic and creative expression began showing at a young age. Drawing stick figures, making cardboard robots, mud cities for matchbox cars, building elaborate bases for my Star Wars figures, and of course Legos. Typical kid stuff. During one year of grade school I spent the majority of my time, sketching characters and story boarding an animation of the Chronicles of Narnia, which I never actually made. During my time at John F Kennedy Junior High in Eugene, Oregon, I took every possible art and shop class I could, sometimes twice. These classes were the only time in the dreaded junior high years that I felt comfortable, in who I am and in my surroundings. Then came high school. High school was only about getting into a college then a good paying career. I was encouraged to put aside my drawings in favor of science classes. When I entered the University of Oregon as a biology major my path towards med-school seemed unquestionable. When I had to drop the final term of organic chemistry I needed to find something to take up the time. Not really sure why I chose that drawing class, but it changed everything. It reignited my love for arts. By the next school year I was signed up as an art major and had an application in for the interior architecture program. I began to actually enjoy college in my new course of study. I began painting acrylics on canvas and sculpting in soapstone. After graduation I moved to Seattle, Washington and did the artist thing. I worked in the morning as a barista then came home and painted. I did this for a year before I got my first job in an architecture firm. I've continued to work for architects while also working on my art. I have participated in both group and solo shows at Seattle's Gallery 110, where I was briefly a resident artist, and have also participated in various neighborhood art walks.
For the fine art america site I typed up a new bio page, thought to repost it here.
My artistic and creative expression began showing at a young age. Drawing stick figures, making cardboard robots, mud cities for matchbox cars, building elaborate bases for my Star Wars figures, and of course Legos. Typical kid stuff. During one year of grade school I spent the majority of my time, sketching characters and story boarding an animation of the Chronicles of Narnia, which I never actually made. During my time at John F Kennedy Junior High in Eugene, Oregon, I took every possible art and shop class I could, sometimes twice. These classes were the only time in the dreaded junior high years that I felt comfortable, in who I am and in my surroundings. Then came high school. High school was only about getting into a college then a good paying career. I was encouraged to put aside my drawings in favor of science classes. When I entered the University of Oregon as a biology major my path towards med-school seemed unquestionable. When I had to drop the final term of organic chemistry I needed to find something to take up the time. Not really sure why I chose that drawing class, but it changed everything. It reignited my love for arts. By the next school year I was signed up as an art major and had an application in for the interior architecture program. I began to actually enjoy college in my new course of study. I began painting acrylics on canvas and sculpting in soapstone. After graduation I moved to Seattle, Washington and did the artist thing. I worked in the morning as a barista then came home and painted. I did this for a year before I got my first job in an architecture firm. I've continued to work for architects while also working on my art. I have participated in both group and solo shows at Seattle's Gallery 110, where I was briefly a resident artist, and have also participated in various neighborhood art walks.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
an ant watching the moon explode
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48 X 52
oil on cavas
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An ant watching the moon explode, the title is a bit self explanatory.
This canvas began as a drop cloth, so after stretching it there where thick smudges of black paint that showed through the gesso. These became the falling parts of the moon. The imagery of the exploding moon was inspired by the destruction of the second death star as seen from the planet moon of Endor in The Return of the Jedi. The ant is just for fun. Friday, July 6, 2012
3 new paintings
It's weird, I tend to work on several projects at once so every once and a while I finish a bunch of them at the same time. I recently finished two sculptures and now I have three new paintings. So a quick note on each of these paintings.
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underland
40x40
oil
June 2012
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Underland was inspired by two sources. One was a painting I saw while in Victoria, BC, which was a sort of barren landscape with a high horizon line and a small VW bug driving along the horizon. I saw it at a small gallery and sadly can't remember the gallery, painting, or the artists' name. The other inspiration was CS Lewis' Silver Chair.
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twinseys
16x16
acrylic
July 2012
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Twinseys started while I was at the coast. It then sat for a couple months while I tried to figure where to go with it. After a bunch of sketches I finally committed to a direction and the final piece just kind of flowed out to the completion.
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dias de los muertos
16x16
acrylic
July 2012
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dias de los muertos was interesting one to do. It flowed quickly, starting really heavy on paint, then pulling paint off, adding paint, taking it off scraping and repeating until I hit the happy point.
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Elemental
I had these four small canvases sitting around for a while, periodically starting but not really liking where things were going. The idea for this began while sketching at a bar. At first it was muses, then dryads and nyads, but the image became more abstract. A forrest for the earth, red flames for fire, blue water, cloudy whites for wind. The elements are supported by a pillar surrounded by a small crowd of humanity. Above branching heavens and sun.
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| Earth |
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| Fire |
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| Water |
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| Wind |
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| Sun and Heavens |
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| Base Humanity |
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