Ericosity

The 2nd of my co-workers series. Going well I think. Waiting to hear Eric's response.

Mixed Media: Acrylic paint, photo collage, rendered photo. KNewart '11

Mattism

Just did this mixed media porttrait of a friend. Never tried this kind of mixed media mashup of someone I know. Just emailed him the photo, waiting to hear his response...well Matt liked the art so much he's going to use it as his Facebook icon. Nice.

Mixed Media: Acrylic, photo collage, rendered photo. KNewart '11

Justice The Hard Way

Just had this piece in a wild art/modern spectacle show called 'Impulse'(www.flickr.com/photos/knewart) last week. Wild night indeed. Great event except the artists and our art weren't treated well. Bad lighting, my art could hardly be seen. Art "hung" and/or placed at random, at the last minute. I had to rent a truck to get all of my art there for the event (a one nighter), didn't finish unloading and to bed til 330 in the morning. Had to return the rental truck at 9am the next day (2 buses to get back home). Hungover and exhausted. Couldn't make it to work. So, I didn't sell anything (not expected for that kind of event). The art wasn't given sufficent lighting nor placement and I lost money participating. Ah, the life of the artist.

Mixed media: Oil and acrylic paint, photo collage, electronic parts, string, wood, flashing light on strechted canvas and wood.
50"x32", KNewart '11

The Eleventh Finger

Worked feverishly to finish this for the 'Impulse' show (www.flickr.com/photos/knewart)...too bad the lighting was so bad (dark) that no one could see the details of the piece. Ah well, live and learn. It was still a very fun, exciting and exhausting night. The fun is in the doing.

Mixed Media: Acrylic paint, oil paint, photos, toys, string, tape, oil pencil, tennis balls, steel pipe, wood, mirror on wood 58"x43", KNewart '11

As Long As I Have You

The mystery and the pleasure. I do love it so.
Medium: Acrylic, photo collage, rendered photo, KNewart '11

Unafraid of Solitary Pain

Been a long long time. I pulled back on doing art shows a while back. Many many changes in my life, caused a bit of a hermit phase. Seems quite often the easiest thing to do is to give in to the darkness and do nothing. But nothing from nothing leaves nothing, so here I go again. I hooked up with a wild art group called 'Impulse'. They've chosen five of my pieces for their May event (stay tuned for more details). So I guess I still got it. This is the first piece they chose. I've had this in storage for a couple of years, so it's gonna be very interesting unwraping it, as it was an emotional jouney creating this one. It represents that alone but surrounded feeling that sometimes overwhelms me.

Medium: Acrylic, latex paint, mixed media (old phone parts, string, wire) on wood. 60" x 48" KNewart '06

Old KNewart - Existence

Reminiscing. Looking at this piece hanging on my wall. Existence. Existence indeed. Feeling very anxious, excited, nervous, elated, lonely, crowded, proud, disappointed, happy, sad, up, down and all around. Nerves firing likes ballistic missiles. Thinking about the future, the job, the girl, the life. Alive and existing.

Medium: Acrylic paint, electronic parts (vcr, phone), wire on heavy wood. 46" x 36" KNewart '05

Hendrix

Methinks I've hit upon a novel idea here. As you faithful readers know, I am nothing if not (thankfully) prolific. Lately, one of my many KNewart projects is "mashing" up diverse pieces of my art. Of course with varying, sometimes frustrating results, but who cares, the fun is in the doing. Over the years I've drawn/painted several pieces based on music icons that keep me inspired. So why not combine my abstract mixed media collage art and images of the genius' that keep me rockin and especially rollin. "Have you ever been experienced? Well I have."

Medium: Acrylic paint, photo, mixed media collage, KNewart '11

Sympathy in Blue

"I spent a lot of my time looking at blue,
the color of my room and my mood,
Blue on the walls, blue out of my mouth,
The sort of blue between clouds when the sun comes out,
The sort of blue in those eyes you get hung up about."

Medium: Pencil on blue paper, 8.5" x 11" KNewart '11

Entering Discovery

Continuing the series of emotional mashups. Styles and thoughts colliding. Very much me at this time on the mortal coil.

MEDIUM: Acrylic paint, photos, mixed media collage, KNewart '11

I Want Your Pain

I gotta get over this hero thing. At least I should save myself first. But every now and then someone comes along and this overwhelming desire to kick in the door of their pain and gun it down like a killer desease overtakes me. As usual though I never have the right ammo. I gotta get over this hero thing.

Medium: Acrlic paint, photo collage, graphics on board. KNewart '11

Tell Me The Truth.

Not really. Okay, maybe. But be nice. Then again, if your nice, will that be the truth. And is that (the truth) what I really want anyway?
Um, back to the art. As previously stated (see blog entry below for more insight), this is a detailed photo of my collage art, made up of whatever I can find that fits the puzzle(s). For years I did large abstract construction art (oh to have a warehouse studio to really go art gaga once again!), but space being a premium these days, I've turned the same energy into these smaller yet still in that hands on destruction reconstruction that I do love to do.

"Tell Me The Truth"; Medium: Photos, film, circuit board piece, mesh, acrylic paint on board. Approx. 8" x 7", KNewart '08

Have You Ever Wanted to be Someone Else?

Is it a wonderful life? I've done several of these (for the lack of a better word) existential pieces. Being that these are collage art made up of several different mediums (see below for details) I guess they help me to somewhat answer the unanswerable questions of this ever bizarre life. The process of painting, cutting, breaking, ripping, tearing, (and finaly getting out of the way of thinking) helps saves on therapy bills.

"Have you ever wanted to be someone else?" Medium: Toys, string, photos, acrylic paint on board. 8" x 7' approx. KNewart '08

The Hook

John Lee Hooker - American blues legend. "Boom boom boom boom, I'm gonna shoot you right down, right offa your feet. Take you home with me, put you in my house. Boom boom boom boom." Somehow John, my aim hasn't been that true. Been feeling black and bluer than usual lately, which has prompted a revisit to the music of the blues. Hooker, Howlin, Muddy, Billie, Louis and many others are the soundtrack of my life these days. This piece was done several years ago, when I was selling many paintings of this style. Although the original is hanging at a law firm in Century City (thank you very much), prints of 'The Hook' and many others are available at www.artwanted.com/knewart

MEDIUM: Watercolor on paper, 50" x 40" (original)

KNewlines - Black Hearts

Black IS the color of my true loves heart.



Medium: Graphic rendering of hand pencil drawings.

R U Glad 2 B in AmeriKKKa?

Ah yes, my angry young man period. Working out my feelings. Sometimes reading about Malcom X and Nat Turner can be very inspiring to a descendent of slaves, ya know? So instead of lynching white folks, I painted. While I haven't viewed this piece in a long while, years in fact (and do forgive the photo quality, it's all that I have), my first thought is what the hell!? Somebody explain this painting to me.

Oil on canvas, 48" x 24", sold.

KNewlines- Sundancers

See that golden hue burning in the west. My dreams are with that color. My dreams are the sun.

Medium: Hand drawn 'KNewlines' on models, manipulated photograph.

Michelangelo and Me - Rebellious Slave and The Victory

My best days always involve a pencil. I have a book of sculptures by the needless to mention genius Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (maybe I need a few more middle names to be as great). So anyhoo, I did these drawings during free moments at work. My muses (thank their little hearts never let me rest).
Medium: pencil on blue construction paper (8.5" x 11"), hand drawn from original Michangelo sculptures:
'Rebellious Slave' (ca. 1513-1516) and The Victory (ca. 1532- 1534)

KNewlines Red- Blood Love Torsos

I associate love with Red, the color of my heart when she's dead, Red in my mind when the jealousy flies, Red in my eyes from my emotional ties, Manipulation, the danger signs. Thanks, Kate, Love Quick, Boy

Medium: Rendered hand drawn line art on manipulated photo.

KNewlines - The Back of Love

KNewlines. Arching, curvy, wavy eclectic tendriled lines. The results of my creatively mental art factory. These "lines" (click image for greater detail) just come to me. I sit. I draw. Luckily the human torso, being the perfect canvas offers infinite possibilities...