Cool-age

Here are some collages I've been doing. My process is like this: Make a drawing I hate, cut it up and make a collage that I hate, cut that up and have a finished collage (meaning some of these took a long time with fairly simple looking results). Some of them are images I printed from the internet onto computer paper and then painted on, others are just cut up segments of paintings. Yesterday I started messing around with Photoshopping as well. I hope to do more of these as starting points for bigger projects/paintings.

necco tower
9"x11.5"
digital print out, gouache, paper

bermuda house
9"x12.5"
gouache, paper

highway house
7"x10"
digital print out, gouache, paper

study for oil painting
8.5"x11"
digital print out (photo credit AD Jacobson), Photoshop, gouache

Drinks

I was feeling pretty uninspired yesterday. But you know the rules. Gotta draw anyway.

Some of the things I drank today
pen & crayon on paper / walnut ink on watercolor paper
7"x5.5" / 6"x4"
March 23, 2010

Still

Still
acrylic ink & walnut ink on watercolor paper
6"x4"
March 18, 2010

Colt State Park

You said this was Colt State Park

walnut ink on watercolor paper
6"x4"
March 17-18, 2010

BFFs

Best Friends
acrylic ink & walnut ink on watercolor paper
6"x4"
March 16, 2010

Float

Float
acrylic ink & walnut ink on bristol
9"x12"
March 14-15, 2010

What's Underneath

What's Underneath
acrylic ink & walnut ink on bristol
9"x12"
March 14-15, 2010

The Lumper

...still thinks my paintings are okay: http://lumper.blogspot.com/2010/03/aimee-belanger.html
Thanks for the feature, dude.

LOVE LETTER

Love Letter (Now I'm addicted to this crap, and it's all your fault)
walnut ink and coffee on watercolor paper
6"x4"
March 12, 2010

This High

This High
ink on watercolor paper
4"x6"
March 11, 2010

a drawing i made before spilling my walnut ink everywhere

The title of this drawing is Mt. Toby but it is really a picture of Mt. Hood
walnut ink on watercolor paper
March 6, 2010
4"x6"

Ben Lomond

The title of this drawing is Ben Lomond, but it is really a picture of Mt. Hood
walnut ink on watercolor paper
6"x4"
March 5, 2010

Field Kit

Since I'm working a new job and now have an hour off for lunch, I decided to make myself a little field kit. I hate wasting time and I love giving myself projects, so I'm carrying this with me everywhere and spending at least two hours (one before work, one during lunch) drawing each day. This kit includes: a booklet of 4"x6" watercolor postcards, small water color kit, jar of walnut ink, jar of water for ink, jar of water for watercolors, 4 brushes, a pencil, two markers, and a pen. I also usually carry a 9"x12" pad of bristol with me when I can. Here are some of the things I've made in the past two weeks (in the wonky order in which they uploaded). Click on images to enlarge.

Shore, watercolor on bristol, 9"x12", 2/21/2010

Willow, watercolor on bristol, 9"x12", 2/20/2010

Sap, walnut ink on watercolor card, 4"x6", 3/5/2010

Bear Island, pencil on bristol, 9"x12", 3/1/2010

Bear Island, walnut ink on watercolor card, 6"x4", 3/4/2010

Island, watercolor on bristol, 9"x12", 2/21/2010

Island, watercolor on bristol, 9"x12", 2/21/2010

Shore, watercolor on bristol, 9"x12", 2/20/2010

Google Photo Album

The ol' website is up and running, but the albums are being difficult, so in the meantime you can view some of my paintings here: http://picasaweb.google.com/aimeebelanger/Paintings# Nothing too new, just some images to check out!

Re-Paint Opening

So the reception for Re-Paint was last night, and it was pretty great. Thanks to everyone who came out to see the show, and to those who hung out afterward for that lively discussion about the local gallery system.
Gallery 263, if you haven't seen it, is a quaint little storefront located at the corner of Pearl Street and Putnam Avenue in Cambridge, MA. It was founded when co-director Annie Newbold decided to turn her former studio space into a warm, inviting, new gallery space. The show was juried by Annie, Jed Speare (director of Studio Soto), and newcomer Laura Francis. It was Laura's curatorial debut, and judging by the incredible turnout, and the generally positive response to the work, it was a success.The show was fairly diverse and featured both new and locally established artists. Obviously, there was some work that I liked more than others, but for the most part, I was impressed with the selection, and found quite a few of the pieces to be astonishingly good. And if anyone wants to get me a present, I'll take about $500 cash, because there was more than one painting that I was sad to leave behind.

The show is open until August 1st, so stop by if you're in the area!

Gallery 263

Re-Paint!

My camera wasn't working, so I asked Matthew Mosher to take pictures with his iPhone. A little blurry, but as you can see, the place was packed!
Aaron Segal's Quantum of Solace

Picture of my completed and framed alteration:

And the 'before' photo for comparison

I didn't want to post photos of any other work without the artists' permission, but you can see more at Gallery 263's website

Repaint @ Gallery 263

I was just notified that I got into Gallery 263's first juried show, Repaint! The concept was pretty cool: find an old painting at a thrift store or yardsale and paint/collage/whatever over half of it, leaving the other part untouched. My roommate Aaron Segal will also be in the show (see the painting 'Quantum of Solace' on his site-awesome). The show will be up from July 9- August 1, and I'll let you know when I get more details about the opening. Gallery 263 is located at 263 Pearl St, Cambridge, MA and is open Thursday-Sunday from 11am-6:30pm or by appointment.

Before:

After:

The pinks/reds in this scan came out funny, but this image had the best detail of the gabillion photos I took. I'll post more pictures later!

The Distillery

I am so happy to be back in Boston (seriously...I can't contain myself) and that is partially because I was able to move back into my studio at the Distillery. I love working there, my artist neighbors are great, and it's awesome just to have a space that's solely for work (my attempts to paint at home never quite work out). The first week I moved in was Open Studios (sorry, I didn't get pictures of this one) and I'm finally settling in to painting. I am working on a new painting-you may recognize the image from the wall painting below, and I'm in the 'I hate this and nothing's working' stage. It's still very excited about the piece, and I'll let you know when I pull out of it. These pictures were taken with my iSight camera, so sorry for the quality. I also don't have Photoshop, so if you can, you know, hook a girl up.

getting muddy

when things were still crisp and new

thumbs up for painting!

DISPARITION

So, it's been a while, but I'm ready to get this bloggin ball rollin (ugh...I almost made a bad pun about 'blogrolls'...sorry, guys). Ahem...Onto the news:

I am currently in a group show called 'Disparition' curated by my friend and fellow Glasgow School of Art alum, Alex Jacobson. The show is in Portland, ME at Zero Station, which is definitely one of the coolest gallery spaces I've ever seen. I can't do it much justice, but in short, it's crisp, modern, bright, and beautiful. The show features works influenced by collage and includes two artists from Maine, four from Scotland, my roommate Jon Skibo, and me. I showed a new and improved version of Buckface, and I was also asked to do a wall painting, which I only had 24 hours to complete. It was definitely stressful, but a good exercise, and while it's (obviously) not as finished as I'd like it to be, I was generally pleased with the results. Pictures below. Disparition will be on view at Zero Station, 222 Anderson Street, Portland, ME, until next week.

Looking classy for the opening

Buckface detail

Buckface in all his antlered glory

detail of wall painting

When we were in Memphis, you said Sunday is like a ghost town, acrylic on wall
the gallery

Setting up and taping off the night before

Zero Station