Where YOU goin'? (With that gun in your hand)

I may be a voodoo chile. I have been listening to lots of Jimi the last couple of days, in the car and at home. Anyway listening made me feel like painting. I've dropped the aliens at the moment and am experimenting with painting on paper. So here's a piece - acrylics on papyrus (Yes "Hey Joe" was playing):

Where you goin'? (With that gun in your hand)

Meanwhile I am drawing a series of iPad paintings about my Purple cat. Now don't you go telling people I don't have a purple cat, because I do, see?

Alien Winter

With frozen vines, the need to wear two pairs of socks, icy winds and the UFOs flying all over the place, I guess this painting needs no explanation. But I could be wrong on this.

Alien Winter
65x56cm,  mixed media on canvas, 500€

See more at www.davidabse.com

Aliens Invading

Alien invasion in 2013. You heard it here first. Well that's my world currently. It started on iPad some time ago - alien creatures appearing in my Brushes drawings, and now they have spread to my canvas. It all makes sense - this is what the Mayans were predicting - the end of the world, no - but look at their drawings, their markings on mountains and plains. Or rather, the Nazca marks. Were they the Mayans? "No you idiot they were the Nazca". Isn't that some sort of American car racing thing? "No that's Nascar, you fool". Ah well, there's some sort of alien life form invading my art world, and I like it.

Here's some iPad aliens:

And here's some new alien paintings - the first one larger on wood and the second one smaller, on canvas:

Alien Revenge. Mixed media on plywood, 80x60cm

Alien Pair. Mixed media on canvas, 27x46cm

More, as usual, on the website, at www.davidabse.com, when I've uploaded everything.

Season's Greetings

 

Painting again - unfinished

After my recent operation painting was at first difficult because sitting down was hard - and with my current lack of studio and thus painting in my bedroom status, it's the only way I can paint. Which I guess accounts for the calmer paintings in some ways. In my studio I would dance around whilst painting (I know - nobody wants to see that). But before the operation I bought some ply wood from Castorama to experiment with. It's cheaper than canvas, and I like the idea after looking at some of Howard Hodgkin's works on wood at the Tate. So here it is - not finished I think.  I prepped the wood before the op, so it has been waiting for me for some time - a blank piece of wood the other side of the room. Now not so blank. I have masked off the outside of the sheet of ply to leave a natural wood frame. Anyway, not finished I think. But this is what I have now:

Over There

Yeah I think it needs some work when I see it here. So no doubt will change. Not sure it fits together properly at the moment - not sure about the blue area on the left, or the bottom black area with symbols. Well at least I am painting, and unusually showing unfinished work. Am less happy with the frame area than I imagined - partly because the grain only goes one way which means it doesn't look right. I think it's exactly the wrong size. Should have been larger or smaller. This is just too noncommittal. We'll see.

It's my birthday - again. Seems to come around a lot.

Today is my birthday. 54 today. Shortly I will be getting drunk so I forget how old I am getting. A couple of weeks ago I had an operation which also made me feel old, and physically made it difficult to paint, so that explains the recent lack of posts. And painting. Also hard to sit on an ordinary chair for long periods. But let's not go there. What I have done is some more iPad pics of digital animals - so here are some of them - enjoy:

Cat on Rollerskates

Hippo on Skateboard

Cats in boxes

Truffling

Levitating Donkey

Milo

Red and Black

My primary colours are red and black. The colours of communism and anarchy. I strive for deep dark blacks, and like to contrast with bright reds. In this painting though I have combined and overlapped different blacks - carbon, ivory, lamp - and different reds - cadmium, vermillion, carmine, crimson. The touches of blue add depth and points of contrast. I paint because I must, but I have such a long way to go.