Atelier Luteiventris - Montgomery J Nelson: October 2021

Saturday, October 23, 2021

Sculpture: “Red Scare”

Plaster, Acrylic paint, and an in situ dead shrub.

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Monday, October 18, 2021

Acrylic Skull Painting

Skull, Acrylic on canvas 24X36”.

Another damn skull, this time playing with Golden Artist Colors metallic gold and black mica flake.

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Sunday, October 17, 2021

From My Sketchbooks: Thinking of Toys and Play

Three drawings from one of my pencil drawing notebooks. The Rhodia paper is lovely with pencil.

I was collecting thoughts on creative backyard play, and remembered how much fun it was to build temporary play structures, you know, forts and such.

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I seem to have custom toys on my mind a lot, and made this sketch of a goofy custom figure that I could sculpt and cast for the barnebarn.

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Puppets are something I adore, and here is an idea for a naughty hyper-sexed puppet who likes beads.

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Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Studio Pics

Atelier Luteiventris pics.

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Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Painting: “Nowhere To Hide”

“Nowhere To Hide” 16x20” Watercolor and gouache on Aquabord.

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A trippy painting…I started painting this soon after this summer’s Heat Dome in the midst of the current pandemic and opioid epidemic. As I look on it now, I think it reflects my feeling of dread of the new regimes taking over our lives: a new climatic regime and an authoritarian regime rising. Both happening with no apparent purposeful reaction or resistance.

Please vote. Every Election.

Monday, October 11, 2021

Painting: “Falling For It”

Their System,

Ensures Our Precarity

Their Religion,

Encourages Our Nightmares

And, As Ever, We’re All Falling For It.

“Falling For It” 24x36” Watercolor and gouache on canvas.

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Don’t fall for it. VOTE!

PadPucks by Artograph

Artograph PadPucks are a favorite tool of mine in the studio. Every once in a while I do use them to support an iPad while drawing; but mostly they’re used as project supports.

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Great all-around support in the studio. They come in sets of four, and you’ll find that you use them in your painting and craft practices nearly every day.

https://www.dickblick.com/products/artograph-padpucks/

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They’re not just for painting edges; I find all kinds of uses for them. Here they are being used to support green branches while waterproof glue is being applied to the ends.

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Some primers and adhesives cause the PadPucks to be permanently sticky, so I cover mine with wax paper or baggies.

Sunday, October 10, 2021

Basswood Carvings

Two more basswood heads in Scandinavian flat-plane style carving. Painted with Gamblin Artist Oils.

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Monday, October 4, 2021

An Inordinate Fondness for, and the Conspicuous Consumption of, BLUE

Here I demonstrate my inordinate fondness for blue; and my ongoing conspicuous consumption of blue.

YInMin Blue is said to be the first new blue in 200 years.

https://chemistry.oregonstate.edu/content/story-yinmn-blue

Gamblin YInMin Blue. https://gamblinstore.com/yinmn-blue/

I’m totally that “little guy” in Eiffel 65’s song “Blue”.

Cuz “I’m blue Da ba dee da ba di”

and oh YInMin Blue I paid serious bucks for thee.

This memorializes my crazed caeruleus consumerism.

New blue? Mother-Fucker, I bought two!

Alas, I must reveal that my True Blue love is COBALT BLUE.

YInMin is super cool; but Cobalt Blue is my favorite, and you’ll see it as the background color in many of my paintings.

Sunday, October 3, 2021

Pics From our Caffe’ Zingaro Art Show

Paintings For Sale At Caffe’ Zingaro In Seattle

RJ Clarke, Christina Teneglin, Lexi Bradley, and I will have art hanging at Caffe’ Zingaro 127 Mercer Street, Seattle,WA 98109 all through the month of October. These are the paintings I have hanging for sale.