Didn’t get a chance to write down my thoughts and ideas yesterday (and I may do some more work today)

RejectionToo – 22″ x 56″ Acrylic and Oil Pastel on paper

One thought was that the Acrylic base and Oil Pastels on top allows me create a lot more nuances in color, easier and quicker than if I tried to do it with Oil Pastels alone; it’s also probably better to use acrylic on paper than Oil Pastel.

Also, some of these color effects are very easy for me to do – but does that make them any less valuable – if that’s what I do well – should I be trying work against it?  Probably not.

Right now maybe there are all experiments – just to see what works.

Painted some more today and looked at SireN of Jellousy, which I liked.

So, I got frustrated, painting on paper, running out of certain oil pastel colors, I used acrylics freely and then discovered something totally unexpected.

It’s quite possible I can combine acrylics and oil pastels, by using acrylics first, broadly, then going over, with oil pastels, or oil paint.

Wow!

Got back from a party I went to at the Magician Pub in lower Manhattan tonight- wrote it up in Webmetricsguru.com – here and here.  It was a nice party and I was glad I went it.

Ran into my friend Matt – he mentioned to someone else I write blogs in a way /style that’s rare – by actually going to art openings, actually interviewing and hanging out with artists ….it seems natural to do so.

Need to go to bed; as much as I want to write more – my mind is shutting down.  I’ll write more on Saturday – and if you check my calendar – you’ll notice I plan to attend a meetup tomorrow afternoon in Manhattan.

Ok, I tried to make it over to the Metropolitan last night but it just didn’t work out – and then I saw there was an “interesting” opening in lower Manhattan (for which there was no website – btw) called “Art and Wine in Tribeca“.   Well, I’m the target audience – I love Art and I love Red Wine – so there!  The theme and name of the show was called “Shape Shift: Selections 2006″ and it’s also the name of the company of the curator of this show, Lesley Abi-Hanna.

I made my way over to 106 Franklin Street, 2nd floor – and since I got there right at the beginning of the opening – which was for 1 night only – it was sorta empty. Not to worry – by the time I left, an hour later, there were many people who had showed up to this “loft” opening – and plenty of wine and beer were flowing – and everyone seemed to have a good time and some Art was even sold too!  A couple of red dots appeared next to a few of the paintings by the four or five artists who were showing their work – Paul N. Grech, Omar Khouri (pdf file), Kyle Nouse, Hatem Imam, and Jo Mikals-Adachi.

 I think Lesley Abi-Hanna, and her husband, a music producer for Virgin Records, are tapping into an audience of people who want to gave a good time and drink wine while viewing art – judging from the response – maybe she’s onto something.  Art Parties – seem like something that are beginning to take off.  It’s not really new – and the prices of the art were reasonable – and the art work was fairly good.   What surprised me, Lesley’s taste in art was fairly good - I would not go so far as to say anything I saw knocked me over – few works and artists do that for me - but I saw good work overall – worth purchasing - a selection of good art -  artists who are really “shifting” and improving.

Here’s some pictures from the show (before it got crowded).

 

Ok, so the loft looked empty at 7:30 PM, it had about 150 people in it when I left at 8:30 PM.  I think there will be more shows like this and here’s Lesley Abi-Hanna’s  number if you want to be part of her next shows @ 201-344-9609.

BTW, Lesley did not ask me to do this – I like people trying to do the right thing – that’s what Lesley Abi-Hanna, an event planner, did – let’s hope she does more of these shows and I like the Art and I like Red Wine.