Darren Daz Cox, now in Pekin Illinois!
Simplicity is beautiful random crackle effects with acrylic paints and white elmers type glue added while wet and horse paintings and Biff Brown!
~* Simplicity by Darren Daz Cox *~
Mega thick acylic paints with elmers glue (standard white glue) squeezed into the wet paint! I like to experiment with art materials and found that the glue in acylic paint really makes some great effects! Texture can be a wonderful thing!
The border on this acrylic painting called "The Family" was done with the crackle glue effect! This jpg however has a digital edge effect on the outside which distorts it somewhat. It was my first in an ongoing series of canvases with a frame or organic border painted as part of the design.
There was a lot of nice art with animals in it at the Art Alliance of Monmouth County in Red Bank NJ last night! The themes were "Fauna" and "Inspired by Seurat", both of which were well chosen for variety and quality I’d say.
There was also a batik demo (given by the amazing Colleen Lineberry) in the studio in the back which inspired me to make some fabric hangings with wax resist art in the future! Hopefully there will be a workshop!
The two acylic paintings below are a diptych called "Innocence and Experience" (in homage to William Blake one of my main inspirations!).
The young horse, to your left, suggests an expanding world, a fresh glistening dewy elastic springtime, the old horse suggests a world that is shriveling up, withering, dry but still full of life, and the composition points upwards to suggest a spiritual connection.
Here I take the ‘frame as part of the motif’ design to the extreme! In both paintings the frame uses more suface area than what it contains!
I started to make horse paintings because of the quote attributed to Leonardo DaVinci "If you can draw horses you can draw anything".
~* all art by Darren Daz Cox *~
and just because I love his positive messaged folky blues-funk, here’s a Biff Brown song (right click to download the mp3)
If you take a little off the top, No one will know a thing.
If you take a little off the top, It will look the same.
And, you wash your hands and face You will look all pure and clean.
Now If you take a little off the top, No one will know a thing.
If you raise your hands to heaven You can say that you prayed.
If you raise your hands to heaven, You will not be blamed.
If you fear the Lord, they say You will never have a fear.
Now, If you take a little off the top, No one will know a thing.
Don’t believe a word of it, baby. Don’t believe a word of it, maybe
There’s another way to do it. Just pick yourself up and Get right to it.
People are always telling you views.Telling you how to feel.
And, how they’ve got their world in order. Telling you how to deal.
That might be right for them, but Is it right for you?
Remember, If you take a little off the top, No one will know a thing.
~*music and lyrics by Biff Brown*~
Judith Slaying Holofernes (1614-20) Oil on canvas 199 x 162 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
art by Artemisia Gentileschi (July 8, 1593 – 1651/1653)
Originally posted 2008-04-06 05:47:16. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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April 6th, 2008 at 6:55 am
STUNNING! The first piece almost looks good enough to eat!
Let’s you and I email about my buying some of your work, please.
April 6th, 2008 at 11:13 am
I love texture!
I like your work and your messages…so I’ll be back!
April 7th, 2008 at 8:56 am
Daz,
You you consider the long term permanence of your art when you are using different mediums? for instance the Elmer’s glue?
If your art were to be here in 100 years, will the glue crack off or hold up do you think?
Do you think about that or do you just flow…maybe it doesn’t matter…
You are so darn good, that as people buy it all up it makes me wonder..and I don’t know anything about the quality of these mediums, but it is so inspiring to want to expiriment and try a lot of stuff.