the alex schaefer hour

Today's show was mostly about East Jesus. I painted one of the people I met there onto the canvas of Salvation Mountain and I think the painting is massively improved! Click here to listen to the show, I had fun managing to prattle on the entire hour, got some good painting done and the audio is not too bad! The first 40 seconds of the show I had no idea it was going so it's silence, but don't worry your computer's fine, I get a clue about 45 seconds in... at 16 minutes I start to do something on the canvas, and the last 20 minutes of the show I start getting into it. I painted very cool skin tones on the girl, too cool that she felt almost blue, I wanted it that way but I also wanted to make her look warmer so I painted a more blue sky and that solved that. There's always more than one way to solve a problem.

Miracle Mile

This painting started off monochrome, the second pass was color. I did this a few weeks back but I never got around to a blog post about it. Here you go! If you want to see, it's at the Charlie James gallery in Chinatown. He also has this one, this one, and this one. Seeing these paintings makes me want the People to get mad again! aahahahah!

East Jesus

Nathan, founder of the Hive and avid camper, was the spearhead for an overnight camp-out in East Jesus, which has to be the one of the most amazing places on earth. An artistic self-sustaining oasis in the desert, basecamp liberty. There was food, solar power, live music. I did a couple drawings of the band playing in the music area, my favorite was a group called Orphan in the Afterlife The next morning I went and made a painting of Salvation Mountain, an epic monument to faith and perseverance. Not bad, but my piece definitely needs another coat of paint, that means I gotta go back soon! I was there for 28 hours total, but it seemed longer in a good way, probably because there were so many amazing experiences in so little time. East Jesus proves time doesn't always fly when you're having fun!

Capital Offense

I'm in a show opening Saturday Jan 28th: CAPITAL OFFENSE: The End(s) OF Capitalism at the Beacon Arts Building, 808 N. La Brea Ave. Inglewood, CA 90302. OPENING RECEPTION 6:00 - 9:00 PM. Click here for the show information online. Mark your calendar! It's going to be a timely and compelling show. related posts: Wall Street Riot and Chase Burning: Venice. I've worked on the flames of the Venice plein air but forgot to take a new photo. You'll have to come to the show!

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The People of (your state) and the United States condemn this legislation and implore you to vote against it."

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333 Hope St

Now it's starting to look like something's happening, I'm not sure if it says zombies yet, but I like how it's looking so far! I had fun doing some major shifting of the composition from the first attack started on location, I'm pushing the local color distinctions and the warm/cool light and shadow. And of course adding the gathering crowd at B of A Plaza! Maybe this is turning into something like a scene from Frankenstein. I think I'm borrowing a little bit from these paintings and these paintings from last year oil on canvas, 30 by 24 If you want to see the full size image click on it, control-click the next image loaded and select 'view image'. Click to zoom in.

zombies

I got a weird idea to paint a zombie attack streaming out of the Bank of America tower and terrorizing the populace. I went to 333 Hope St with my sketchbook and made a drawing based on what I saw being there and then with perspective and imagination I made the vantage point look like from above and added the zombies! I blocked in the painting on location, sans zombies, but plan to add them soon and take it back on location. It's a statement! I did the Alex Schaefer Hour when I was painting on location so here's a link to that; I haven't listened to it but hopefully the audio is ok!