Sunday, April 26, 2009

Paint Pallet


So I'm feeling bad because I can't post any of the images I'm working on right now because my clients feel wierd about letting the cat out of the bag before the projects are published - go figure right? So I was looking for something I could put up and then it occured to me - my pallet! This mound you see before you is constructed out of all of the acrylic paint I've used since 1990! It started out as my friend Carl Wayne's masonite oil pallet which he thought was too big so he cut his in half and tossed it (the piece you see) in the trash. Way back then it was just a flat piece of 1/4 inch board but when I pulled it out of the trash and started using it as my acrylic pallet it began to grow.


There was a time when I was going to discard it - it was growing out of control and I thought it would be easier to work on a new one. But then I looked at it again - all bumpy, lumpy, and full of character. There there lil fella don't you worry - daddy isn't going to abandon you like Carl did. (can you tell it's 2:00am?) So here he is - I figure he's probably middle aged like me - lots of miles but many more ahead. He's been to Maryland, California, technically Nevada and idaho, but mostly he's lived here in Utah. Like I said before of the thousands of paintings I've done he's got parts of all of them in him. Oh, and that arch you see was at the request of my children constantly nagging me to sculpt some form into him - that took about 9 months. I think I'll name him Benjamin since I never had any run-ins with anyone with that name.

14 comments:

  1. That is a little weird my friend. Mine has only reached the 1/4 - 3/8 mark. Yours would look cool in cross section.

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  2. holy crap! I am not even really sure what to think about that... whoa!

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  3. A bit grotesque but kinda cute in person.

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  4. That is awesome!

    My daughter is sitting here growling at the pictures of Benny boy

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  5. You need to frame that and hang it on the wall.

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  6. I'm very happy for your pallet... :D

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  7. Grotesque is the word! I think I see a small animal struggling to free itself!

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  8. ... I'm not too sure what to think about that. You actually lug that thing around? And is that a piece of cloth stuck to it??

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  9. That is wonderful! My acrylic pallet has been going only about four years or so. It was an old wooden cheese cutting board. I have wondered what it will look like in twenty years, and now I can see! I hang mine on the wall as art when I am not using it.

    Awesome.

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  10. Tha pallete is a thing of beauty ^_^

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  11. Hey, I know you wrote this a million years ago, but I was inspired by you and started building up my own crazy paint palette. I mentioned you in my blog post.. thanks again for sparking the idea :)
    http://trinalyn.blogspot.com/2012/04/my-hideous-paint-palette.html

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