The Process Pt.2

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Greetings, I hope the day is treating you well today. Thanks for coming by the studio its great to see you again. Today we will continue in the process of creating these two pieces the other day we left off with the two panels having had multiple layers of primer(not gesso) applied and today we will begin adding some color and texture.

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Where we started. Here we have the first on many many layers of color and texture:

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Ooooo what’s it going to be? Well…. We’ll just have to wait and see right?

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Oh no somebody spilled gesso all over…. Ha, why yes, yes I did but in a very specific place and pattern.

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The green and yellow piece is going to change so much I think you’ll be pretty surprised when we go on to the next steps. I am using the coral texturing technique on this piece for a very specific reason which will become evident as the piece evolves. With this piece I already have a name and highly specific image I’m going to try and draw out of these panel.

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This is a close up of the panel on the right. I have a color scheme in mind and a eventual goal (feeling) that I’d like evoke but because it’s an emotional piece the process will be far more in depth than the green and yellow piece.
Right then I’m back at it, these textural pieces need to dry and I need to paint, I still need to finish Green Girl and Grapes of Wrath . Once again thanks for coming by you lol beautiful as always, do please take care and I’ll see you again shortly.
Always
Benjamin

Words

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“Flat Line”

16″ x 24″

In private collection

As the dawns light begins to fill the space of darkness

can you say you tried?

can you say you would have died for our love

or did our love just die.

Simply,quickly,limp, lifeless void of heart.

the roses thorns cut deep into the hearts of many

as their young lovers hearts burst with passion

remiss, such kisses go long forgotten

under the weight of life and change, burden and blame.

touch my face gently as you leave, stain my heart

with the tears of the love long gone.

hold me as I cry the night away,… wondering,

A life left wondering………….why………

Benjamin

2013

 

 

Morning music and paint

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Good morning, I hope you slept well.
I think today might just be a fantastic day. I to slept last night…really you say, but Benjamin you don’t sleep. I know right :-) well from 10p – 4a angels wings embraced my soul and gave me strength to come fight another day.
So in turn let me spread that love and joy to all who are in need. Find strength in small places, don’t forget to look up there’s a whole world above us. Know one thing you are love and cherished.

Namaste
Benjamin

A day with my son:The teenaged boy

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Good evening, afternoon and morning. Please add your name here __________.
After spending the day with my most super fantastic son who is 13 going on 13 and pretty sure he’s more than happy to never get any older and become a giant troll who occupies the game room for the rest of his natural born life.

I have now learned how to make the most obscure things in mine craft ever thought possible. I’ve been reminded how absolutely useless algebra is to normal every day life. I’ve also watched 4,600,234.00 YouTube videos about absolutely nothing. But they for the most part were so wicked funny, ok yes I’m 42 going on 13 I admit ;)

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You will now be returned to your regularly scheduled broadcast as the Process Pt.2 and Greeting from the Studio will resume tomorrow at there normal times. This has been a service announcement from BMP Studio.
Big hugs and kisses. ;)
Benjamin
Ps: if you remember that tv show theme song,……your old :-P just like me.
xoxo

Mid~Day thoughts & Things

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As this frame shakes and quakes
Under the strain of its own making
I search the sky, I search your eyes.

For some glimmer of what was lost may be found.
Alas, tis not for the making or breaking of this man to decide.
The colors fade from my dreams
As the demons creep in
Stealing piece of my soul
bits
I’ve left behind for all to find
Like
Bread crumbs for the birds
Ravens and crows to pick my bones clean.
I worry……
and wait for these things to pass
Like the remaining days of this
life.
Pain drips from every pore
Like the tears of a child left
alone
For to long, calling to nothing
Won’t you please…… Ease this pain in my brain in the rain…..
Gone, lost and left…

Benjamin

2013

Thoughts

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I spent the wee hours on the morning writing a very lengthy post / poem and thoughts o the day only to find that it didn’t save to WP: In short I will be taking a little break today to work out some physical and family issues that have come up know that I love you all and will post today if a can, until later I leave you with some music and images.

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There are some things in life that I feel a man should move mountains and part seas for and if he’s not willing to do so, well then he’s not much of a man, gentleman or person is he.
I hope love guides you through your day and you find peace, love and hope in your heart. I will be spending the day treat to heal my very very broken body today and spending some quality time with my son. The one true reason I still walk this earth.

Namaste
Benjamin

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You didn’t actually think I could end it on such a somber tone did you? To quote a wise and honorable bird
“He don’t know me very well do he” ;-)
Over and out

Gallery Sale 5-18 thru 5-30

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**SALE 05-18-13 THRU 05-30-13 ALL ORIGINAL ART SOLD BETWEEN THESE DATES WILL INCLUDE FREE SHIPPING IN NORTH AMERICA AND CUSTOM HAND CRAFTED FRAMES.
***See Gallery I tab for available pieces also will apply for commission pieces.**

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“Time to move on”

36″ x 48″

Mixed media

This was a tribute piece that I did for De Kooning in 2012.

If you look closely you can see the eyes, nose and mouth of the figure

in the foreground.

Have a great weekend I’ll be hard at work in the studio all weekend

myself.

please feel free to email me at bmprewitt@comcast.net with any questions you ay have about anything really.

Please use SALE in the subject line so your email doesn’t get lost in the mix.

Namaste

Benjamin

Newest Editions~

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“Freedom” An abstract Self Portrait
24″ x 36″
Mixed media
Oils,inks,Acrylics
150.00 usd
**will be in Gallery I soon.

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“Egg & Orb”
Impossible love
10″ x 14″
Oil pastels and Acylics
On gallery wrapped birch panel
50.00 usd
**will be in Gallery I soon
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Freedom: SOLD
A story of passion and freedom from the boundaries that as artists and people we put on our selves.
So often in life we hold ourselves back, fear,hesitation and uncertainty keep us from expressing ourselves full . This piece represents breaking those boundaries and freely expressing emotions and words openly and accepting who you ( I ) am.
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Egg & Orb: How many times in life have you looked across a crowded room a bustling transit station or seen a person walk bye and have your heart race with passion and want. That feeling that screams of chemical overload. That feeling in your stomach that yearns to know that person only to have them fade away. Impossible Love is dedicated to those feelings that souls mate you see that is just out of reach because life got in the way.
Thank you for letting me share the message behind these two pieces. May life guide your passions and dreams closer to you with every step you take.

Benjamin
2013

The Process….Pt.1

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It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these so I figured we’d give it go.

For me painting is not just about the finished piece nor even the praise of a job well done or even the possibility of someone liking a piece enough to actually pay money for it.
It’s about the process and the relationship I have with the paint, the emotions I’m trying to imbue into the piece the emotional connection I like the viewer to feel and the image I’m trying to coax from the paint. The final works are and example of that relationship of that harmony between artist and medium. Today we will take a journey through the creating of two pieces:

So it begins.

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The place my studio, workbench and two freshly cut and sanded pieces of pine board. Thank you Mr. Tree for your sacrifice.

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The boards are then sealed with 5-6 layers of primer, not gesso this is a specific type of wood primer that seals the wood and protects it from weather damage, I never know what type of climate these pieces will go to for their final home. These panels are 24″ x 24″ or 61cm x 61cm one most likely will be a Surrealistic Landscape and the other will be a textural piece maybe in the Ribbon Series or Moon Series the paint has yet to tell me what it would like to do. I know what I’d like to do but honestly that doesn’t always work out.
It’s like trying to force a child to eat broccoli or spinach eventually the child will cry and the food will chill and then all is lost.
On the advice of some people I love and trust dearly I’ve decided to start to speak about my work more openly. Those who have purchased pieces from me end up with the “full story” behind the work but the general populous does not. So in an effort to bring the story full circle I will most likely be giving snippets of information with my work going forward.
With that being said I’ve a huge day of PT-OT-Speech ahead of me so I’ll be off to the shower and the day errands prior. Thank you all for stopping by the studio today I hope to see you all soon.
Remember there is an offer going on in the gallery so don’t be shy come on by and browse.

Always
Benjamin

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Good morning…..(grumbles)

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I know I’m the guy who says,Oh don’t blame Monday it just had a bad wrap, well bollocks :-D I really don’t want this Monday, excuse me: Waiter there seems to be a Monday in my week could I please have a Tuesday or maybe just a slice of Sunday again please. (Grumbles….)

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Ah ah ah ha that is so funny!! Is the plant shaking? Or is it just me……It’s me :-D that made me laugh sooooo funny. Yes I make fun of PD as often as I can. Anyhow. Good morning I hope you slept well, you look absolutely gorgeous today ;) go on our there and make it happen…. What ever it is you happen to be making today… Cookies I hope, or maybe pie I like pie. Alright enough pre-dawn humor
Much love on this fine Monday morning, I hope the world is kind to you and you to it.
Much love
Benjamin

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While I was getting my whopping 3 hrs if sleep, sorry the shadow lines are just bad lighting so don’t get all excited. But they are cool and would be very easy to add. Hmmmm ;)