There are times when a painting will really leap of a canvas/board/piece of paper in a way that sometimes surprises you. Call it what you will, but there’s a really vivid “prescence” to some works that is hard to either define or ignore, and is more than the sum of it’s parts.
These most recent works of mine have just that. I really feel like these are the best things I’ve made in years. But they are a bit spooky. Well, actually a lot spooky.
OK, here’s a couple of videos showing how I put gold leaf on my latest painting. I have actually blogged about this before, but I thought I’d show some videos this time. It’s always sheer comedy genius doing it, so enjoying laughing at my efforts.
Here’s Part One, which gets quite funny around the 5 min mark:
And here’s part two, the tricky bit:
This is a good way of transferring a photographic image onto canvas. It gives the image a strange quality as you’ll see..
They call me Quasimodo.
My journey to work in the morning:
I’ve done another work to leave out for Free Art Friday first thing tomorrow morning. I thought it would be easier to post a video as it’s so long and thin.
I made a little film for a service that moot did at the Greenbelt festival on Saturday night.
It uses the track “F.E.A.R.” by Ian Brown. This track is an old favourite of mine, and I’ve been wanting to do something with it for a while – it suggests so many things, the lyrics are really clever, and the music as a whole is very powerful. If you don’t have anything by Ian Brown, then I can recommend that you make a start with his Greatest Hits collection, as the man is an understated genius.
technorati tags:radcliffe, video, f.e.a.r., ian brown, moot, greenbelt,
I made a movie to accompany the poem that I wrote.
technorati tags:michael l radcliffe, mike radcliffe, video, poetry, poem, smoker’s prayer, movie, film, prayer, ash
artbizness 