Back in progress…working on 3D vines.
Red Sky Sprawl.
Summer babe/Tan lines, this time with the use of a scanner. I don’t know which version I like better, so I’m not replacing the weird photographed one.
The Fog Finds Its Way Inside, 2013.
I originally started this for a group show themed transparency early in the year, but the show never materialized and I finally “finished” the painting a month ago.
I wanted to document the portrait before I started playing around with adding some dimensional elements–I’ve previously used veils of painted tracing paper or similarly delicate materials to overlay paintings, but I’m interested in making more structural additions and this is going to be my test piece.
Sphinx, for the defunct Illustration Naked Party. The theme is mythical creatures.
Another unfinished idea.
Summer babe.
Catsitting away from home and without a scanner, so I photographed all the frames of line-art and did my best to line them up…pretty funky, kind of like it, but I might scan it for real next week.
Last night I was in a little group show put together by the same friends as Reading Paintings in April (again utilizing the bare walls and empty space of an apartment just moved-out-of). This one was called In My Room, roughly inspired by the Beach Boys song, and with the requirement that each piece be monochromatic in a shade of blue selected by hostess Rachel Levit.
I was out of town until the day before, and finally got to sit down and make a piece yesterday about two hours before leaving for the show. After starting several really terrible tiny paintings, I made a three-dimensional cut-paper, wire and gouache life-sized cockroach glued on a pin so he stuck right into the wall. My friend bought it at a bar before it even made it to the show (where I hadn’t confirmed that I was bringing a piece, so I got to just sneak it up…)
Neighboring paintings featured are by Hannah Lee (first, last) and Jordin Isip (third, fourth), and a collaborated between the two (second). The mutual inclusion of nearly identical cockroaches was a happy fluke.
My dad recently launched a Kickstarter campaign for a semi-autobiographical novel he’s been writing since 1973 about the shipwreck he was involved in on Christmas Eve, 1972. That story influenced a painting and diorama I made three years ago called A Christmas Shipwreck (I don’t have any good pictures of the diorama, unfortunately–I didn’t have a great camera at the time, and it’s destroyed now). His Kickstarter video is especially great, and certainly worth a (couple) view(s).
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/petersantino/lady-fame
The Petrified Chorus.
I still don’t have a perfect photo of this piece because there isn’t a large enough space in my apartment to shoot it (plus I had to take it off the stretchers), but here’s a better view of it installed in the corner during last month’s Reading Paintings group show.
Bobcat Goldthwait’s new movie Willow Creek is about Bigfoot, and it’s set in my home county. My folks went to a screening last night in Arcata, CA and gave Mr. Goldthwait a copy of my Bigfoot woodblock print!
For Clay Rodery, who requested that I make this drawing ten times grosser by animating it.
Witch.
Jack'o'Lantern.
Wishbone.
Hand of Glory.
Bramble Ghost, for Iain Burke’s collaborative Ghost zine, which will be available at his show on May 23rd, 6-10 p.m., at Pine Box Rock Shop in Brooklyn, NY.
Finished this with half an hour to spare…
Excising Memory.
My piece for this week’s Illustration Naked Party theme, “How can you forget someone you hate?”
Quick piece I made last month to illustrate a scene from Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, for issue 22 of The Baffler magazine.
And then while deinstalling Reading Paintings the next afternoon, someone slipped this constructive criticism under the door…