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Experimental Art Process

Posted on March 26, 2022March 26, 2022 by Blackcoy

As mostly an experimental artist, meaning I observe, listen, feel the places I visit, live in, pass through and become inspired with a sense, an expression that becomes the art of that time and space. Sometimes the pieces are temporary like the current process I am working with.

Two years ago, right before covid shut things down, I took an artist residency in Bisbee Arizona at Object Ltd. As I have been coming to Bisbee to visit and live for months at a time over the last 12 years, I find myself visiting Cave Creek Canyon (east side of the Chiricahuas) alot. Two years ago, while walking through a cutbank of a creek that flows from the snowmelt on the top of the lava ash remnants of a supervolcano, now called Standing Up Rocks. In the creek are carbonates and silicates of both ocean and water sediments over millions of years and the volcanic tuft and ash left behind. The rocks are amazing in their colors and I find great joy in finding these rocks that I use for pigments.

This time, two years later I again have visited the creek and collected the rocks and made pigments. But how to use the pigments? As paint? in paint? as itself, sand? so I began to play. The photos and videos following are my process!

From Rock, to sand/pigment to Art
(Above) First Process, love the purple, these are unaltered rock pigments
(Above) Piece on left is sand pigment mixed with acrylic paint, and on right is unaltered pigments forming art on brown fiber paper
(Above) Pigments in wind, constantly changing and being changed by the wind
(Above) One Hour Sketch Project, Plein Air: Oil pastels with pigment on left. Middle is called “Desert Flowers” created with pigment, glue and added color with oil pastel. Right art is oil pastel, plein air on site.
Top three sketches with black and white oil pastel are 15 minute Dappled Forest Light process. Sitting still in one place, while the sun is moving through the forest canopy above casting shadow on my large 24 x 36″ paper, how much could I see and capture in 15 minutes, and 4 degrees of sun movement. Each page is 15 minutes following the other. The last oil pastel is a Plein Air, oil pastel One Hour Sketch Project looking across the creek from the same sitting position.

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