Almost there

I'm just about ready to mail the art-o-mat pieces out, I just have a few more details to go through before they head out into the world. Now I'm almost ready to start on another project: slightly larger (6" x 6") homages to everyday life -- vignettes spotted at 65 mph or forgotten objects quietly collecting dust.  Who knows, you might just see your favorite exit off 80 show up here.  

Art-o-mat: before and after

These are the 50 art-o-mat blocks, just after I received and gessoed them, and then several weeks and much painting later, they have been transformed into small paintings.  With any luck, later this week the miniatures will be on their way to vending machines hither and yon.

second passes

These had a little more work.

Last four

Four to go

two more from last night

Nine left to do!  I need better lighting so I can work more at night.

eleven more to go

three hours and six pieces later I only have a handful more to go.  With any luck, I can get these in the mail to art-o-mat next week...!

today's stuff

more art-o-mats

These are mostly from yesterday's drive from the Russian River back home, almost all of which are based on photos taken out the passenger's side window of our car at about 60 mph.  If you got out of the car to see any of these scenes, you'd be flattened, so they are quite rare as far as views go. :)  30 down and 20 more to go...

I've been unable to work on the blog because our phone line and dsl have been down for the last two weeks.  But, in the interim, probably because I haven't had time to be on line (irony of ironies), I've been working on a new project.  

A while back I sent two samples into the art-o-mat project (artomat.org) and soon received word that my work was accepted (thanks, Carol!).  This has been very exciting because I have long loved that project but it's only recently that I realized I could be part of it.  The most intense part has been getting the initial 50 (yes, fifty) pieces together.  In the last couple of weeks, I've done 20.  I'll post them here since I think they counts as my painting-a-day or at least painting-as-often-as possible goal.  So, here goes:  Oops, looks like they posted above and some of them are on their side....I'm still trying to grope my way around this thing.