Jeffrey Collins: On Painting: May 2022

Thursday, May 26, 2022

Red Yellow and Blue 2022

Many of you that have been around me know my respect for Barnett Newman and especially his series called Who's Afraid of Red Yellow and Blue. I have over the years found that this choice of colors makes for amazing eye candy in paintings and I love making paintings with this choice of colors. I desired to continue this idea of making paintings dedicated to the primary colors and voila here is another. Enjoy!

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02-17-2022 - 02-18-2022

Red Yellow and Blue 2022

9.5 X 6 X 1.5 IN (3 Panels)

Acrylic on Painted Wood Chassis'

Morthond 12-08-2020 (01-13-2021)

14.5 X 11 IN

Acrylic on Painted Wood Chassis

This painting has a bit of a story behind it, along with the title. I had made the chassis a while before the event that happened which changed the course of my day and this painting. I don't really like telling stories like this because it sounds like I'm bragging about something nice I did. But I have yet to really tell many people about it. On the night of the 8th of December. I had went to the mailboxes and on the way there, I passed by a cat that had been laying on the sidewalk and making bad sounds, on the way back, I peeked at him and he really didn't sound good at all. So I went back to the house and grabbed a towel so I could pick him up and bring him into our home so he wouldn't have to freeze while waiting to die. It was such a heartwrenching time that it's still hard to talk about it. I won't tell the whole story here, but once back home, Mom and I cleaned up the area where he had been and we went back to our normal day. As I was in my room, I began thinking about something else I could do to make sure he was never forgotten about. And so I decided to make a dedication painting for him. I called it MORTHOND, as he was the name of a warrior in the movie Circle Of Iron that gets messed up in a fight and needs the hero of the movie to help him die. So now and forever to me his name will always be Morthond and he fought the good fight. He'll always be remembered.

The second date is the date I finished the painting.

Friday, May 20, 2022

03-10-2021 Triptych

03-10-2021

Triptych

9.5 X 6 X 1.5 IN

24.13 X 15.24 X 3.81 CM

Everytime I get to working I get into a mode of desiring to make multiples. So the triptych is a natural method for me in my work. The ability to work over three chassis is very freeing, definitely not the same feeling when working through a large chassis bigger than yourself. But it definitely helps with the urges. I can't help but want to work larger all the time but at the moment I am constrained. But this constraint does allow my mind to wonder into new and amazing methods for the creation of another of my paintings.

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Have a wonderful week!

Jeffrey

05-22-2021 22X16IN

05-22-2021

Acrylic on Painted Wood Chassis

22 X 16 IN

55.88 X 40.64 CM

I had recently purchased a bottle of this amazing gold paint from Golden called Iridescent Bright Gold Fine, you know how it is for a painter, the second you get it home you wanna test it out. After my initial trials, I knew I wanted to hurry up and use this in a larger painting. Hence this. It's such a wonderful paint and is the best representation of what the color Gold is that I have seen over my years of looking at dirty pigments that said they were metallic, from the days of spraypainting my microphone stand that me and my friend found while coming home from school one day. Today's metallic pigments actually look like the metals they are made for.

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Have a great week!

Jeffrey

Monday, May 2, 2022

07-05-2021

Acrylic on Nylon on Joined Painted Wood Chassis

14.5 X 11 X 3 IN

37 X 28 X 8 CM

07-03-2021

Acrylic on Nylon on Joined Painted Wood Chassis

15 X 11 X 3 IN

38 X 28 X 8 CM

As my paintings have developed, I have constantly in my painting been on a search for even more methods to make a painting. This is a continuation of that desire to see more, not just in one manner, but in every manner. To look, and to look again, to see deep and search out vision.

These are made almost all at once in the painting stage, 2 chassis' at the same time are painted to a point, then joined together and held by the dry paint and then finish painted. I'm looking forward to making many more of these, larger ones also. Gotta see the scaled up versions and their layered looks.

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