Gentry Blackburn
Mom makes Art
Category: Painting
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My painting is in the background! It’s gouache on red paper board from 2002ish and it’s big- about 3’x4′. I think I did it for a show about the “male gaze” and it didn’t get accepted! Too on the nose? Or maybe it was show of female nudes. Anyway, it didn’t get in. At the…
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Been going through stuff, and I found a stash of 35mm slides of old artwork, so I finally put up an Old Art archive. The quality of the images is not great, but I lost the digital copies of things, and this is better than nothing! This one is Jimmy and the Gorilla, Oil on…
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Another blast from 2008ish. This was another show at Saans Photography, and the delightful Shalee Cooper put them together in perfect poster form:
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This was from a show at Saans Photography in 2008ish. I could have sworn there was a sister painting that went with it but all record of it is long gone, I guess. A burned disk with just this one image on it floated up out of the detritus of life. I traded the 2…
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Just finished an acrylic on walnut little painting for my cousin of his little girl. Shh, it’s a surprise!
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IMG_5423 My friend Caity in Seattle just sent this amazing Elliot Smith/Buffy crossover. I love it so much AND see that cool painting? That’s one of mine! (Wardrobe 2001 Oil on Canvas 24″ x 36″) It is a crossover too. The white silhouette is the old Salt Lake City Public Library where I worked at…
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She blinded me with pseudoscience. I did this watercolor this weekend. I like how the faux bois countertop looks but not lovin’ the cup. Anyhoo, there is a reason, that is not 90’s nostalgia, that I felt compelled to paint Saturday’s cup of coffee. I am not a person of faith- of any kind. Lately…
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This was an exercise in “jumping in with authority even though you are super rusty and haven’t used watercolor in a while.” It turned out fine. By the way, these sneakers were even more worn out than the painting suggests and were taking up room in my shoe cubby. So, the moment after I got…
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working on a painting of Mary Beard
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