C.B. Murphy  .:. Writer

There’s something new afoot. There’s a batch of four new guys, of which 50% are starting right in with personal, expressive works. Jeremy, a white skinhead, is making a piece with an Incan mummy (face) holding bugs against a frescoed background. Interesting color control. We talked about bringing the piece forward all at once, not finishing one corner. [I’m thinking Anselm Kiefer]

Carl, in his first piece, did something that looks like line-drawn alien figures (white on black) at the bottom of the canvas recipients of “hellfire” rain from above. We talked about the need to be conscious of the lines, when are you wanting the impression to be “sketchy” to the viewer and when were you just in a hurry (or lazy). Oddly, he seemed to listen and made the less important figures more hazy. [Keith Haring?]

Sam, another skinhead, has been making money on portraits in prison. He blows ink out of a ballpoint pen and “paints” with a small brush and smudger to produce quite realistic portraits. He wants to learn how to paint (afraid of color) and hopes our master Trent will help him.
Trent had a “temper tantrum” when he found out that the commission he got at the last art show was supposed to be “anonymous” and though everyone knew who commissioned it, he wasn’t supposed to. The offender was offended, apparently.

Clay is still working on his Hard Rock logo piece with detailed guitars.
Delano is doing moody Christmas paintings.
Jerald is finishing a graphite commission of a Neolithic female warrior.
Rene destroyed his first piece, was working step by step out of a book to make a landscape.
George is trying his hand at abstraction. Georgia O’Keefe?
Glad the show ruckus is over. It’s settling down again.