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orchid brushes.app painting

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:52:32 +0000

I wanted to make a piece of art for my anniversary card to my wife, so this year I used brushes.app on my iPad to paint (?) this set of orchids. I really like the reasonable limitations and extremely flexible set of tools. I went through the tutorial a while back and started remembering the color blending a ways into this piece. I’d done several pieces of abstract work as per my normal mode in brushes.app, so doing something representational was something new for me. I guess. I do some representational works; mostly seascapes… so this turned out pretty ok given that it’s just not what I normally do.

orchid digital painting from stevecooley on Vimeo.

I had a hell of a time with this so-called-free epson printer, wasting a precious hour on changing ink and reading about how lame that is given the amount of ink left in the “empty” cartridge. Sigh. I have another “Free” canon printer/scanner sitting right next to the epson, and not only did it fire up right away, but it had full ink carts, zero clogged nozzles, and printed out a *beautiful* 4×6 glossy print for me on the first try. Whew. Anniversary card project successful.

remembering how to paint, part 3

admin — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:25:33 +0000

here’s the third and possibly last painting post for 2008. This is a tryptic. Each piece is 24″ square, for a total of 72″ x 24.

I’m not sure of the title yet. I… have some ideas. I also have a full timelapse movie in the works for this piece as well. So when I get that done and figure out the title, I’ll post ‘em up.

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remembering how to paint, part 2

admin — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:17:03 +0000

Here’s the second painting I’ll be showing at uproar ’08. I’ve been working on this one all year, so it’s nice to finally figure it out and finish it up.

Ah, finally.

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remembering how to paint

admin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:07:25 +0000

Since my son was born ~6 months ago, I’ve been trying to cram in as much of what I used to do before he was born into my nights after he goes down for the night. I’m glad there are outlets for getting your work shown in the south bay area like Heart of Chaos and Works/San Jose because their events are good motivators to get some artwork finished.

So, here’s a new piece:

I have a tryptic and another piece that I’m wrapping up for Uproar 08.. posting soon…

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Steve Cooley showing at Works/San Jose

admin — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:54:58 +0000

I have a small show called “through the prism of San Jose” in the windows of Works/San Jose while it is preparing for an upcoming members show. Check it out!

Check out higher res photos and more of my artwork on flickr.

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Developments v2

admin — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:51:51 +0000

Progress…

Developments v1

admin — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:53:29 +0000

I’m working on a painting again, finally. Sometimes I feel like working on something fast, sometimes I feel like working on an epic. The epics are more satisfying for me. I know the fast pieces are still my voice, but I also like the pieces that I hammer on for days and days and days.

I’ve been painting on black gessoed canvasses and boards recently. I like it. I like it a lot. I’ve only been doing plein aire and landscapes over the last couple of months, so doing an abstract on the black gesso is new for me.

Here’s stage 1:

Treebones plein aire

admin — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:16:49 +0000

R and I painted the awesome view from our campsite at Treebones over the last weekend. Check it out:

These are 5″x7″ acrylic on black gessoed canvas board.

me:

and a photo (different time of the day, but.. you get the idea):

Living in paintings

admin — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:51:31 +0000

Holy crap!!

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I’m in 2 newspapers at once… (!)

admin — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 07:40:27 +0000

ok, so… yeah, I have three pictures of me at Works/San Jos?© in the San Jose Mercury News, and a nice big photo of the piece I painted for the works member show in the Silicon Valley Metro… both hit the news stands within 3 days of each other.

San Jose mercury news, sunday june 3, 2007:

Silicon Valley Metro, may 30-june 5, 2007 (high res PDF)

woohoo!