tubes again

work in progress

detail of work in progress

I've been thinking a lot about Wayne Thiebaud, my painting teacher Amy Sudarsky and not caring when I paint. I'm trying to break out of micromanage mode and I think that if I can do that while painting objects as difficult to capture as tubes which are made of glass, metal and plastic while still making it look like glass, metal and plastic...I might be cured!

This is one of the biggest paintings I have ever done, definitely the longest. I'll have to measure it but the first picture should give a good idea of scale.

-S.

Above are pictures of a big box of broken amp tubes that my friend Jerid donated to me because he's nice. I've become fascinated with their space-like charms so I've been working on doing a series of paintings of them. See below.




-S.