arms raised in a v

mookie blaylock 10

here is a painting i did for a friend who is also a PJ fan...and i mean fanatic...it's based on song lyrics from "jeremy", and it's called "arms raised in a v" ...i'm currently working on a piece based on "crazy mary"...i'll share it when it's finished...

http://www.segmentedpaintings.ca/arms.htm

i'd be anxious to hear any comments or questions anyone might have.

have a pearl jam day!

*given*to*fly*

unfuckingbelievable!!!!!
you are very talented
id love to have a piece like that hanging in my appartment
im kinda jellous actually
so many ppl seem to have all these creative gifts and i got nothing lol
but yes its beautiful and id love to see more of your work
cheers

mookie blaylock 10

wow! thanks so much for the kind reply. we all have something creative in us....sometimes you just have to look for it. can't wait until i finish this "crazy mary" piece so i can post that too. it's going to be called "sometimes we did". my website's in my profile if you want to check out more. i do mostly stuff based on music lyrics...especially neil young...he's my main inspiration. once again, i can't thank you enough for the kind words. peace from the east coast!

stuckinline

wow, i really like your moon panel!
how long did it take you to create this piece?

mookie blaylock 10

i thought about it for a week or two, and listened to "jeremy" a FEW times - i was fine with that! once i had the image in my head, it was finished in about four days. it's on wood...so that includes cutting, sanding, and preparing the wood. it was just one of those pieces that came to me...if you know what i mean, and i had to get it out and get the image i had in my head down with paint. the only thing that slowed me down was the fact that the red and yellow were slow drying paints! it's my favourite piece i've ever done because it meant so much to the person i did it for. all he asked me to do was a painting based on "jeremy" and that it had to incorporate the idea of "arms raised in a v"...hence the title and the tree splitting so it looks like arms...one reaching for the sun...one reaching for the moon..."king jeremy ruled his world"...in other words, as he holds the sun in one hand (tree branch) and the moon in the other.
thanks for your reply gluten, and for taking a look, i appreciate it.

*given*to*fly*

WOW!!!!
i dont even have words,
your stuff is amazing!
im really impressed
please send me a msg when u finish your next piece id love to see it
cheers

mookie blaylock 10

will do GTF! thanks for taking the time to take a look and for your kind words once again. i really appreciate it! i'm pretty excited about this new piece, so i'll be quick to show it off once it's done...
...down a long dirt road...the old blue car we used to race...a little country store with a sign tacked to the side...

mookie blaylock 10

i played around with this for a bit and finally learned how to post a photo of the painting in the thread, instead of just the link...here it is..."arms raised in a v"...

stuckinline

ok, so i looked at your piece again. "metalic spray on pine", is this only spray paint or did you use a paint brush? i really like the yellow and red colors too.

mookie blaylock 10

i don't normally use paint brushes, unless you count the foam kind. i use foam to paint the panels black, and to paint the trees. the only metallic spray is the sun...it's a gold metallic. the moon is actually a "dust" paint normally used to coat glass. the red and yellow are actually heavy duty rust paints..they blend well together and get really sticky, but take a long time to dry. the rest of the painting i do with rags and my hands...or whatever accomplishes what i'm going for...i've used spoons, knives, spatulas, sponges, but i rarely use a traditional paint brush. i didn't use any brushes on this piece.

RVM86

mookie blaylock 10 wrote:

i played around with this for a bit and finally learned how to post a photo of the painting in the thread, instead of just the link...here it is..."arms raised in a v"...

Oh my gosh, that is beautiful. You are extremely talented. Do you have anymore I can see?

mookie blaylock 10

take a bottle, drink it down, pass it around...

love the sig RVM86...it's funny because i'm working on a piece right now based on the lyrics from "crazy mary"...as i posted before i'll put up a pic when it's done. i have some design plans for "black" and "indifference" too, maybe "wish list" sometime in the future. most of the stuff i do is based on song lyrics.

thanks for the compliment too! all these compliments make me want to do more work! i really appreciate it. if you want to check out more, click on my homepage in my profile, there is more there...but no others based on PJ songs yet...mostly neil young songs...or just click here...

http://www.segmentedpaintings.ca

i'm always interested to hear what people think...unless it's negative - lol !

RVM86

Wow, wow, wow. I'm looking at your webpage right now. You are AMAZING! I think I'm in love with you....lol. You have got some serious talent. I'm speechless.

mookie blaylock 10

i can't wait to show you this new piece then! i'm really happy with it so far and am anxious to show it - it's the biggest one i've done yet...a framed piece about 5 feet by 3 feet...also, you are far too kind...thanks for taking the time to have a look.

RVM86

I bookmarked your website....I'll be on the look out for new pieces!

thunder_balls

That's just beautiful. I'll give you 2074816230124981648123818512048237894831809989732409237102 dollars for it..But seriously, if I had the money, I'd buy it if it were for sale. That is so beautiful. That painting is what you would call, "A damn amazing painting"...

mookie blaylock 10

thank you RVM86!

mookie blaylock 10

thunder_balls wrote:

That's just beautiful. I'll give you 2074816230124981648123818512048237894831809989732409237102 dollars for it..But seriously, if I had the money, I'd buy it if it were for sale. That is so beautiful. That painting is what you would call, "A damn amazing painting"...

i'll take a cheque TB! lol...my friend who is the PJ fanatic has it on his wall, he is the one who does my photos for me. thank you for your compliment. after seeing PJ live recently and hearing all your kind words, you guys are giving me the encouragement i needed to get some more painting done!

stuckinline

tim, HOLY CRAP!

"freedom" is awesome!

GummiBeer

Those are some great hands you have, not to mention your thoughts....great work

mookie blaylock 10

gluten919 wrote:

tim, HOLY CRAP!

"freedom" is awesome!

thanks again gluten...you guys are going to give me an "inflated head"! lol again, it just encourages me to do more work...so that's a good thing!

there was another painting i wanted to put on the site that goes along with "freedom"...kind of like a "sister" or "brother" painting...it's the mirror image of "freedom" and i painted them both at the same time. they were intended to be hanged side by side - you'll notice i do a lot of "night and day" stuff...but the photo was done by someone after i sent it to them and the glare from the flash was too much to put on the site, it's kind of hard to see the trees in the lower right hand corner, but they are the same as "freedom"...but here it is...it's called "a lyric at midnight"...they are both supposed to be kind of like northern lights inspired - like i would imagine a day turning into night at the "tree line" in northern canada. i was listening to rage against the machine's "freedom" at the time and it was close to midnight as i was finishing them, hence the names and the chaotic nature of both paintings...both paintings are somewhere in calgary, alberta...

mookie blaylock 10

thanks to you too gummibear ( a fellow atlantic canadian!), and to everyone who has taken the time to look. i can't wait to show you all some more PJ inspired paintings!

stuckinline

mookie blaylock 10 wrote:

thanks to you too gummibear ( a fellow atlantic canadian!), and to everyone who has taken the time to look. i can't wait to show you all some more PJ inspired paintings!

please keep posting pics!

burtschips

mookie, I like your paintings a lot. I think they're great. I just stuck a picture of mine at the end of a poem in the poetry forum that is tiled, (the painting) like yours. of a leaf.

mookie blaylock 10

thanks burtschips. i checked out your leaves. i also love the colour of the leaves in the fall. there are areas here in nova scotia that are unbelievable in the fall - orange, yellow, green, and red forever.... you'd love it.
are your paintings on canvas? did you use a close up of leaves as reference, or would you describe them as more of an abstract from memory kind of work? the color is awesome! nice work! of course i liked the tiled idea too...
got any more? i'd like to check them out.

lanners

wow, those are incredible!

i love that you use trees in your pieces a lot. i LOVE trees and am hoping to get a full back panel tattoo of a tree with some obscure PJ references. i just need to find the right tree. the right tree is hard to find!

it's awe-inspiring that you don't use brushes in your work. maybe that's my problem...maybe i need to toss the brushes.

thanks for sharing your work and I can't wait to see the Crazy Mary inspired pieces. it's great to know there are so many talented Maritimers out there!

mookie blaylock 10

thanks lanners! are you a fellow haligonian? i noticed that you saw the fantastic halifax show...just curious.

i do use brushes on some pieces if it calls for some detail work, but not very often, i don't like using them... for the most part it's rags, sponges, foam, hands, that kind of stuff. whatever works. i've even used old scratched cd's that don't play anymore on a piece or two...to get a kind of weird swirling effect. weird, eh? i didn't use any brushes on "arms raised in a v" though.

i don't know what it is with the trees, but they almost always make their way into the paintings...there are ten dead ones at the bottom of "arms" to represent the album title, and the line "the dead lay in pools of maroon below"...i can't stop with the trees! jeremy is the big split one in the middle with the "v" shape. there is a tiny one in the crazy mary piece i'm doing...there is also one that i want to paint from a red hot chili peppers concert dvd "live at slane castle"...i went to the show - just outside of dublin, and i remember the tree...the dvd opens up with a shot of the tree and i can remember seeing the person working the camera behind it...it's just a very cool looking old tree. i'm going to do a segmented version of it someday.

good luck finding the right tree for your tat. sounds interesting. i'd be interested to hear what PJ lyrics, songs and / or meaning you plan to incorporate. the celtic tree of life is an interesting design, it's one of my faves...don't know if you're familiar with it. it's round, and has great symbolic significance in celtic culture.

do you have some stuff that i could take a look at? i'm always curious to see what others are doing with their art, if you're willing to share some of your work with us...and you're right - not enough of the talent in atlantic canada gets seen. not that i'm in that group (the talented ones i mean... lol), but there are a lot of talented artists around here. i think it's being next to the ocean and having so much access to nature that inspires people. hope all is well on this rainy night in hali. sorry for the lengthy post...

lanners

this is the only piece i have a photo of because it's the only piece i've done in a long time. please be gentle...it was something i threw together for a friend's birthday because i couldn't afford to buy her a present.

i can't believe i'm posting this--it pales in comparison to everyone else's work. oh, and what you are seeing is the whole canvas. It is just one of those small 7"x9" dealies from the Dollarama, and yes, it is only a quarter of a sunflower. i usually do trees, so while i'm in the right park, i'm in the wrong flowerbed.

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/e-girl808/5808f0bf.jpg

stuckinline

lanners wrote:

this is the only piece i have a photo of because it's the only piece i've done in a long time. please be gentle...it was something i threw together for a friend's birthday because i couldn't afford to buy her a present.

i can't believe i'm posting this--it pales in comparison to everyone else's work. oh, and what you are seeing is the whole canvas. It is just one of those small 7"x9" dealies from the Dollarama, and yes, it is only a quarter of a sunflower. i usually do trees, so while i'm in the right park, i'm in the wrong flowerbed.

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/e-girl808/5808f0bf.jpg

it reminds me of georgia o'keefe.
don't EVER be "ashamed" of your art. it represents a part of you...an expression.
i look forward to seeing more of your pieces.

thunder_balls

I'm sorry mookie, but..i have to tell you again. Your art kicks ass..

lanners

thunder_balls wrote:

I'm sorry mookie, but..i have to tell you again. Your art kicks ass..

...and again i have to agree with thunder_balls! the more I look at it, the more I love it.