Yukon Cornelius
6x6 oil on panel, black floater frame
I looooved Yukon Cornelius when I was little. He was the original bearded hipster (I bet he loves craft beer … me too!). But I especially loved his pack of dogs. Man, I love dogs. *sigh* Someone should do a spin-off that features Yukon and his dogs … just going on doggy adventures ... chasing squirrels … tinkling on things. I’d watch that holiday show Every. Damn. Year.
Remember that scene where Yukon licks his axe to “test” for gold? While I’m more than willing to suspend my disbelief a bit for an Island of talking misfit toys, I find it harder to believe that Yukon’s tongue didn’t stick to a metal axe at the North Pole. We’ve all seen “A Christmas Story”. Other than that flaw in the writing, this was possibly the best of all the Rankin Bass stop motion specials.
Day 3 of 25 paintings in December 2021
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The encaustic paint I'm using dries really fast, so it's hard to get color puddles mixed that will stay workable for long. You can reactivate them, but it seems like the color isn't as highly pigmented when you add lots of water after they have completely dried. With this constraint, I thought I'd try keeping just one color puddle wet, that I could then shift into warmer or cooler variations. This is a bit different from how I work with oils, where i create a few color mixes, which, opens up my palette (and I can dip into different, cleaner mixtures).
I ended up enjoying this way of working, and may try the same technique on an oil painting. It creates a nice tonalist (in this case, mid-tone heavy) painting, and the sense of atmosphere works well when painting toys, I think. It better represents a memory of the toy, as opposed to the actual toy itself. I like that quality, and the resulting subtly. Boiling a subject down to it's essence is friggin hard.
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Michigan J. Frog
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Michigan J. Frog was a Merrie Melodies character. The ongoing gag was, that a talented frog gets discovered by a man who hoped to get rich. He soon learns the frog will only sing and dance in front of him, and no one else. My mom could probably relate to this guy, since even though she paid for years of piano lessons for me, I always refused to play in front of other people. Sorry mom. But also, my piano teacher was a horrible woman. (Dolores Umbridge, from "Harry Potter", was most certainly based on my piano teacher). I still have an irrational fear of Wednesday afternoons.
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