A Rickety Canvas

There was this small abstract acrylic painting that was hanging on my bedroom wall for a while but it's not exactly portfolio-worthy because the canvas itself was strangely "rigde-y" and sort of warped...probably because I had some random stuff sitting on it at one point...

so I decided about throwing it away, considering that I had other canvases that I could gesso over like this one so I wouldn't really miss it. But then I got curious about the blank, raw side of the cloth...

So I separated it from its frame and flipped it over and made this doodle with chisel-tip Sharpies... and it looks interesting enough....but still not worth keeping. What I have yet to do, and I think it would be cool to do, is paint on raw canvas...

I bet I could find some from the Dick Blick online warehouse; this would most likely be one of the few shopping havens for artists where you can get a lot as well as save a lot. And their shipping is really something else; sometimes they overdo it with the packaging (they pack orders of a few paintbrushes into a box big enough for 3 coffee table books) but it certainly comes to the doorstep fast: almost every order from these guys have arrived about a week earlier than the expected arrival date. In case you are curious, http://www.dickblick.com/

One more thing, I have now finished that still life that I wrote about from the previous post...here's the link: http://spencerthart.blogspot.com/2010/11/still-life-with-stump-and-small-table.html

What I've been doing this Friday

So on Thursday, I started this Still Life painting that you see here; it actually did not look much different than this picture. In fact, I drew and painted all of this from scratch that day. I decided to go the college art studio on Friday to paint more of the log, apple, teacup, and light bulb. I'm not too sure if I want to leave that roll thing under the table or not, though. But we'll cross that bridge when we get there.

a Double Double-Double

Since I have yet to ever eat this at an In N Out Burger joint, I decided to buy a " 4 x 4 " (4 beef patties and 4 slices of cheese) meal for the first time tonight...I'm starting to notice that while their Double-Double burgers are quite fresh they are not as filling as other fast food burgers that I have eaten; so I was curious to see what doubling that ante would come up to - The result is basically that while it was certainly more filling, I would not be quite as eager to say that it was worth the medium meal price of $8.69...

Cnidarians on the Tarmac(?)

I stumbled upon these awesome looking oil drips on my wet neighborhood street as I was coming home from the college studio today...they look like jellyfish under a thermal cam or something...

The New Blog Has Landed!

I have just composed my new, planned blog for my artworks!
You will find at least two works that I have already posted there...
Here's the link:
spencerthart.blogspot.com

Gotta get crackin'

Man, the last time I've posted something here was on September...

I really need to post regularly here.

Well actually I have planned to start up another blog solely for the purpose of previewing my artistic works. Not to say that I'll get rid of this blog; I'll keep for more of my personal prose...and journal-like thoughts...I'll probably still post daily sketches here as well as my video game moments (both good and not-so-good).

Not to mention, that the title for this blog (C.S.C.) is reeeealllly not cutting it for me...I want to change it real soon.

Chalk Drawing of Kirby

So, about a month back, I moved into the garage as my new bedroom and I gave this ancient yet awesome blackboard a new coat of paint; and to commemorate its freshness I decided to take colored chalk and draw Kirby waving and a Warp Star in the background. Nerdy it may be, but I still love it. ^ V ^