I FINALLY got into my new studio today for a couple of hours and started working on a new painting!
No title yet, but I'm thinking it will have something to do with "dance." The painting is acrylic on an 8x10 inch canvas over an ultra fine point Sharpie sketch. Here's what it looked like before I started swishing paint around...
The finished project is going to feature a lot of black light paint on the main figure and the moon (and maybe the signature / mirrored initials.) Not sure when I'll have the chance to complete this little beastie, but when it's finished, I have about a dozen more canvases to attack!
Meanwhile, today, while I wasn't painting I was trying to figure out how to use the new Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator 33, the "Knockout!", that Ellie just got. The PO-33 is a tiny sampler / sequencer!
While experimenting, I ran a line out of the PO-33 into my U.E. Boom 2 speaker, and it sounded pretty good! (The weird cassette looking object in the back of the photo on the right is a notebook that my older daughter found for me! People like to buy me notebooks...possibly because I might be the ONLY person they know who still uses a paper notebook! Ha!)
Unfortunately, the machine proved a bit complicated for me, but I'm going to watch a few more YoooTooob videos and try to figure it out what I'm doing. Elise, who bought the machine, has been writing songs and wants me to put together some "beats" for her to perform over. (This is new stuff for both of us, but we like to learn new things!)
That was today's adventures... Hopefully, I'll have something new to share tomorrow!
---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)