Mind Travels

WIP “Food of Gods”

J Slattum — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 08:31:42 +0000

This piece was inspired by the late Terrence McKenna, a great psychonaut and free-thinker. See you in the next Dimension, my friend!

Food of Gods

The Hive Gallery LA September 2010 PRESALE!!!

J Slattum — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 04:43:48 +0000

All Eleven of my pieces for my upcoming feature at The Hive are posted up and available for pre-sale…

Check it out! This is your chance to get a J. Slattum on the ground-floor.

Enjoy,

WIP “Finding a Missing Memory”

J Slattum — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 03:30:29 +0000

I’m really excited about this new piece that I’m working on. Again, something new- skipped the grisaille underpainting and painted directly over the burnt umber layer using a “closed” palette. I’ve never relied too heavily on a premixed palette but I’m sold on it now. I used a bit of a modified Munsell setup, lots of premixed strings with strings of grey to control the intensity of the colors.

This is the first layer of color.

1st Layer of Color "Finding a Missing Memory"

Next I’ll lay in another layer of color to smooth everything out and adjust textures. After that I’ll focus on highlight scrumbles.

Hope you guys love it as much as I’m excited with it….

WIP “A New Way of Thinking”

J Slattum — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 06:31:52 +0000

This is the first layer of color on my newest piece… next will be scrumbles of light and texture….

This is the first layer of color

WIP- “A New Way of Thinking” Grisaille

J Slattum — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:14:47 +0000

Here is the next layer of “A New Way of Thinking”. This is the grisaille layer, in which I’ll lay in translucent and semi-opaque COLOR layers over. I’m trying something new this time by painting the grisaille underpainting the same color as the planned background… hoping this will help with the half-tones and shadows.

WIP- “A New Way of Thinking”

J Slattum — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:40:29 +0000

Here is my latest piece in progress- “A New Way of Thinking”. A lot of problems in this world would be eliminated if we all just opened up our minds a bit more. Thinking is Divinity.

This is a raw umber underlayer on ochre/burnt sienna/ultramarine ground….

1st Underlayer of "A New Way of Thinking"

I’ll be applying a tonal layer of whites and green-blacks, known as verdaccio, over this. Once dry, then the verdaccio underlayer will support the warm translucent color glazes that I apply over it.

The Channeler- next layer….

J Slattum — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:43:41 +0000

Here is the first color layer on “The Channeler”…. next I will paint warm light and texture on the stone to help harmonize and deepen the piece….

First layer of color on "The Channeler"

WIP- “The Channeler”

J Slattum — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 03:52:57 +0000

This is the last underlayer before I start applying thin glazes of colors…

Grisaille "Dead" Layer before applying colors....

White Crow with Black Egg

J Slattum — Mon, 24 May 2010 23:01:35 +0000

This is my latest piece in the works, “El Cuervo Blanco con Juevo Negro”

White Crow with Black Egg Underpainting

It’s 8×10″ Oil on Canvas.

This piece is about humanity and the choices that we make as individuals and, therefore, as a whole. It is serious, yet humorous. Sometimes mankind is so serious, it’s funny… and sometimes we are so funny, it becomes very serious.

Best,
J.

“The Paradox” underlayer

J Slattum — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 04:48:27 +0000

Piece in the works… “The Paradox”

This is the painting underlayer….

Here is the color study….