New painting for Torq Lite

Hello,

First, I have to thank my new friend, Jordan, for giving me the idea to start a blog. Jordan works for a company named Torq Lite; she hired me to do a painting for their front lobby. I started the painting on 3/24 and worked on it, all weekend. Jordan is a big fan of Jackson Pollock’s work and wanted a painting similar to his style, which is splash and drip art. We also discussed how big she wanted the painting (54" X 44") and what colors she thought would go good in the lobby. She also wanted the painting with a lot of texture and very thick paint. I took some pics over the weekend to show how things are coming along so far. The first pic just shows the canvas being primed. The 2nd pic shows me adding texture to the painting. It's a special sculpting paste I use to create texture. The painting is going to be above a navy blue couch, so I decided to make most of the painting yellow and dark blue. I'll keep updating the blog to show you the progress.

Since most of the painting is going to be yellow and dark blue I added some yellow for the back ground.

Ok, lets get going here, color, color, and some more color. This is just the first couple of layers of paint. I can already tell this going to be the most paint I've ever used on a painting. Over the weekend, I kept added more and more layers of paint. Somebody asked me one time...how do you know when to stop adding paint when you do a painting like this? The answer, I have no idea, but when my brain tells me that's it, that's it.

I don't want to show too much of the painting, at this point, but here's one last pic.

Wow! What a frustrating night of painting. I found out how cool this blog is yesterday, after Jordan read and looked at my blog, she noticed that the blue I was using so far was not dark enough and needed to be more navy blue, which is the color the company uses on their website, plus the couch that the painting is going over is navy blue. So, I got home at 5:00 yesterday, I started washing out some of the blue I already used by adding some more white. After I got most of the blue out, I noticed that I was going to have to pretty much start all over because it just didn’t look right. After couple hours of layering again, I had the painting almost exactly the way I wanted, then my eye caught something I didn’t like. I should have let it go, nobody in the world would have known, but I just couldn’t let it go. I thought no problem; I’ll just fix this one part real quick. Sometimes, being a perfectionist can be a real pain in the ass lol. After trying to fix this one little thing, I messed it all up. At this point, I started saying a bunch of really bad words and getting really pissed off. I had to take a deep breath, step back for a few minutes and calm down. After taking a break and recomposing myself, I went at it again. By this time, I had a hell of a mess; there was paint all over my dining room area where I paint, not to mention all over me. I kept working on it, adding the new navy blue, more yellow and white. Even know, most of the painting is yellow, navy blue and white, there’s a bunch of other colors too. By 10:00, I had it to a point where I could quit for the night. I woke up this morning and looked at it, it was worth all the work the painting is 90% finished, I just have a few things left and I can start building the frame. Hopefully tonight will go a lot better lol. Here’s a few pics I took last night.

I’m back,

Before I get going on the painting, I wanted to talk a little bit about this style of painting. You know, everybody looks at this kind of painting and thinks…Oh that’s easy, all you have to do is throw a bunch of paint on a canvas and WHOA LA!. Well, let me tell you, it’s anything but that. To be honest, this kind of painting gives me the most stress out of any paintings; it’s so damn hard to get everything looking just right. The amount of paint on one of these paintings is equal to 3 or 4 paintings. Another thing, it’s really easy to go too far, like I did Tuesday night. Once that happens, you pretty much have to start over again, to a certain degree.

Ok, I had to regroup after Tuesday night. I Woke up Wednesday morning feeling very sore, like I haven’t worked out in a long time lol. The one thing I noticed Wednesday night, the painting got too cluttered. I got a little carried away with the navy blue sprinkle, so I needed to clean it up a bit. I decided to add some big chunks of thick paint to wash away some of the navy blue sprinkle.  

One thing I forgot to mention, Jordan said she didn’t want paint on every inch of the painting (which it’s not, but pretty close), and that’s kind of hard when you’re doing a painting like this. So, the secret is, to make it look like it doesn’t have paint on every inch. I also wanted to discuss some my secrets to making thick paint. To make a very thick paint, I add saw dust (I do a little trick to make the saw dust into a fine powder), sculpting paste and another thing I won’t mention hehe, this makes really beautiful, shinny, think paint. Even after it dries, it still looks a little wet.

I also have another thing I like to do to make the deep layers in the back of the painting POP, but I can’t go into details about that, incase another artist reads this lol.

Well, Last night after working on it for several hours, my brain finally said “That’s it” So, I’m finished, YEA!!! It was a ton of work, but the most fun work I’ve ever done. This is by far the best, most interesting and beautiful Jackson Pollock style painting I’ve ever done. I just hope Jordan likes it as much as I do.

Here’s a few pics, I don’t want to show the whole painting until Jordan gets to see it. I’ll post some pics of the finished painting later.

Hey, thanks for taking the time to read this, I hope everybody enjoyed seeing the process.

On to the next painting, a friend of mine at work wants me to do two paintings for her. One of the paintings is going over her couch and the other one, by the fireplace.

Take care,

Clint B. Meadors

C Meadors Art

Clint.Meadors@Yahoo.com

Hello,

Ok, I finished up the Torq Lite painting for Jordan over the weekend. I had to build the frame and stretch the canvas. I had a few problems with the frame, but nothing too bad, just had to keep working with it until I got it right. I told Jordan I would bring the painting to her Monday, so I loaded up the painting and took it over to Torq Lite. I was pretty stressed out because I didn’t know if Jordan would like it or not. I always stress out when I’m taking a new painting to somebody lol. But, everything went really well, Jordan absolutely loved it, YEA!!! It’s so nice when you paint something for somebody and they love it. It makes all the hard work, worth it. Jordan is going to take some pictures of it with her good camera; I can’t wait to see the pictures. It’s going to look so good above the navy blue couch. I took some pics for everybody to see the finished painting. I really love how yellow works with navy blue, there’s just something about those two colors together. I want to thank Jordan million times for giving me the opportunity, thank you so much.

Take care,

Clint B. Meadors

C Meadors Art

Clint.Meadors@Yahoo.com

Awesome piece for sale!

Painting sixe: 48" x 32"

What's really cool about this painting is...I used this really cool gold paint. When the gold paint drys, it

looks like gold metal, it's really cool when the sun shines on it during the day. At night, the painting just has this amazing warm feel to it. The painting is on canvas, with 100% arcylic paint. 

$175.00.

Side veiw pics

 

                                                       Another pic showing size of the painting

                                                       
                                                   Pic showing detail pic of one of the blocks