Come along as I explore the creative process…inside my studio - my methods and thoughts…My search for inspiration isn’t limited to my studio - with a sketchbook in hand, I’m on a Map Quest randomly exploring my local hiking map. With my desire to educate and see more - I’ll take you on all my artistic adventures!
-2C. That's nothing. Back in my day, we would walk 10 km in the schnee to school. And that was uphill both ways! It looked like a beautiful day for a hike even if it was a bit chilly for a NC boy.
LOL!!! Yeah, I was feeling a bit wimpy ;-))) Dressed completely wrong...Unfortunately since Christmas, I've been sick (the flu,...Covid!...,...,...) ...my fitness level isn't the same :-( Not the best start of the year...Hope y'all are happy and healthy <3
Fun times. I liked the music in this one! (I can play that Caracassi etude :). -2 degrees is too cold. Was that Farenheit? That cabin made me think of the witch's house in Hansel and Gretel. I'm glad you didn't go in. :-o
Hey Joe, yup - Hansel & Gretel :))) that cabin was interesting (not marked on the map)...there wasn't any "No Trespassing" sign...so, I really was hoping that someone would come out and chat (friendly conversationalist or the wicked witch)...I had already planned to share my tea lol... The music was tricky - I spent quite a few hours researching the flow...I wasn't sure if the folky arrangement by Sky Toes (Angelic Silhouette) worked directly after the Caracassi...but, its "color" complimented the mood and comfort of that fire. I really enjoy that part of the production and editing... So, is Vegas getting hit by the big winter storm in the US??? Thanks for your comments <3
Good choice on the Ginkgo tree. It is a flowerless seed bearing plant. The only plant remaining in its genus. It has been renewing its life cycle for hundreds of millions of years. Check it out!!
Oh yes, I made sure it wasn’t producing fruit - they stink ;-)) the tree was already here when we bought the house - I love it❤️ hope you are doing fine and dandy Stephen❤️❤️❤️
How the hell you film that intro in the trees? ? LOL This whole episode was great cinema art. ! Great to see Lissi again. Happy Holidays. When I was a kid there I liked how all the Christmas lights were white.
Hey Mark, Yes! I wish that I understood the universe better...things are certainly a riddle that I don't always get...Hope you and yours are happy and healthy...PEACE & HUGS
Hey Joe, yep...Rocky loves coming along too - but, it does mean a lot more work and tugging... Yes, Germany has daylight savings time - we have fallen back...our days get so short so quickly...It took me a while to get used to the daylight change after moving here...NC daylight is definitely different. Hope you are doing good...Peace!
Wowzer. I was thinking this episode has some trippy music and then a normal song but if you start watching about 13:42 the music and landscape sort of merge! Not because it's mountain /guitar music but the layers of gently rolling contour lines and the speed of panning too. If you were reading notes running along the ridges... The alps would sound more angular with big leaps in the melody. Imma keep watching.
Hey mang. I enjoyed it. I wondered if the lake trip was right after the rain? I used to notice in my pond that rain made the water like a mirror...not just the lack of wind behind a storm but something about the water surface tension. I'll look it up.. I think it washed oils in or something (oil smooths out ripples) or just super clean rain?
Well, I'm sure there is some science involved in the super reflective quality of the water's surface...it was so gorgeous when I first arrived to draw...the ripples from the ferries were just too noisy... I love filtering through 100s of songs to find the right mood and rhythm...Another goal is to never repeat music from episode to episode. Thanks for the comments Joe! It's always wonderful to hear from you...LG aus Deutschland
yeah you said several kilometers each way on one of them? i wen't on volksmarches there but 10k limit since I was a little kids. I mostly remember the sugar wafers they give out for energy and the walking sticks. @@artiinsideout
Pretty mind-blowing video, man! Those place are wild and great hi-def footage. I'd like to visit again for sure. Did he ladies come visit? That music had me spaced out too. 😲
I really like this piece! You have come quite a ways from your Father and Son days of televisions and forks. Though i must admit the climber that you did for me is still a favorite!
Thanks Joe, yepper! I almost thought about making a few political comments but, the process of the marks took over and became more a focus...Hope you are well<3
Thank you so much… glad you enjoy the process. Yes, sometimes I wish I could go back to some of the earlier phases…but I guess that’s the blessing and curse of documenting…Greetings from Germany, Farbvergnügen, Chris
The ability to just keep going in a piece of work is something as a new painter i struggle with, you had at least 5 great piece's in one. Could have went so many directions So glad your video found me, stay well
Fun one Chris! Imma hafta watch again when it's not so late. I like them yellow mountains. I think that whole thing was yellow to start with. I 'member looking at the alps as a kid and realizing the grey sky behind was actually another, taller mountain.... and then realizing that behind that one was another taller one. :-o
Great one man. Nice looking pizza, too! Does it seem to take the same amount of hours to do each of these larger paintings? I'm wondering if your process dictates the stopping point as much as the painting itself sometimes. You definitely seem to have a repeat a process and 'precense' once your done
Thanks man! Yeah, questionable... I do want a successful end "product" ...I think ;-)...Process is purely the pathway... so many of my favourite works seem to come to my "happy spot" with less involved process...(what should I make out of that...?)...
Hey Mark, thanks so much! It was really hard choosing what to put in the interview - I had almost two hours of film to dig through...Yes - lets meet up soon!
Cool video! I hope whomever buys that painting also displays this time lapse of it being created. That "writers block' can be tough... it's when you notice you're "thinking too much" and not doing stuff. 10 years ago I started to write songs for other people to sing like Willie and other people I admire. That eliminated the writer's block because I no longer had to write something meaningful to me- that would have my name and face all over it and that I would have to sing from a personal place. I could just write stuff Willie might sing and that was easy. Wrote one 'for' him, buffett, nora jones, buble', beach boys, a christmas song, a reunion song... all stuff i would never sing in "my band", etc but they would probably sell a lot more. They are all good-better than any of the songs I wrote for myself I think. LOL. Much more 'listenable' to a broad audience. Then I joined a class of songwriters trying to write for commercials and tv shows. That involved cowriting which I had never done. I learned that the song is always better with more than one creator. This mountain landscape doesn't look like your normal subject matter (in paintings) but it sure looks like your style. I wonder if you were trying to find personal inspiration init when it may not have needed it. (aka overthinking). . No matter what it will always come out looking like a CKJ original. I joke about how easy it would be to write a song about a pair of red shoes because that theme doesn't mean anything to me.... and therefore I wouldn't' have high expectations of the meaningfulness or worry about performing it 'from the heart'. To overcome "painter's block"You could commission yourself to painting things that you normally would not... maybe CKJ's take on the 'overdone' classic painting themes. LOL. It would take no 'overthinking' but you would still enjoy the flow probably. It is interesting that your sketches have a lot of portraits and landscapes and realistic buildings, but your paintings are totally different. You colored pencil landscapes are bomb and of course the charcoal. Have you ever started a painting from a charcoal sketch- like that castle in the next video.. Or, I wonder what your take a classic 'best-selling" painting themes might look liek. would look like: _________________.
YEPPER! Over thinking is a viscous internal fight - It's tricky to just let go and find an easy direction in the flow...but, that's the obstacles we all find along the path - right? How else do we learn, experience and grow? Those songs you wrote for "someone else" are absolutely another "genre" from your own (I get it)...but, you wrote them...no matter what they have a pair of "red shoes" that only fits you! ...Maybe it's just stupid barriers (I hate to say this) but, we all build ourselves into a "denial" (self pity) or an "easy way out" (laziness)...or excuse after excuse...the thing I've learned from the years creating art - nothing changes if you don't work. Nothing comes out of nothing...That's why I guess I say "Get to Work" in the Credits every episode... Did you watch "learning to fly?" That was initially a charcoal drawing which became a painting at the end. I have started many paintings with an under drawing as a guide... Thank you for the comments - Always love to chat!
Good one. The process / path --- like when you get to the end it's just a moment and a thought, but looking back is a movie. Would be cool to sell paintings in their process/video form. You could mount a cam near your canvas and if someone buys your painting they can get the whole video of how it got to that end state. ( Or they could play it on random mode where it selects a different moment in time from the painting's life every 10 minutes. :-o )
@@artiinsideout Looking for a frame... Do you know the size of this Glicee print your sent or what size frame? I guess I could measure and go from there but thought I'd axe you because I've never done this. I could take it to a place. Do I pick a complimentary color or neutral black?
@@joephillips7612 Hey Joe, an A3 is 297 × 420 mm (11.7 × 16.5 in). I would have it matted and framed (white matt 3 to 4 inch border - I usually have the bottom border larger than the other 3...and my preference is black frame). It might be easier to get it professionally done - but, cheaper is doing it yourself. You can find all materials at a Home Depot or similar. They can even custom cut a matt for you. Good Luck<3
My grandfather Anton had carrier pidgeons when I was a child. He was in the pidgeon club and took part in competions with them at the weekends. He had them in a shed in the garden and my cousin and I used to go in there to pet them, feed them or collect their little eggs and swap them with cement-eggs. Or we were playing in the garden all day, watching the sky waiting for them to return. And when they did, yelling into the house: „Opa, there‘s another one!!! 😂
Did you sleep good up there? Do you have specific technique for walking downhill especially after your legs have been working all day? I'm going to a hilly place soon and have been sort of figuring that out. That guitar on the left is a Framus. I have a 12-string. Made in Germany. Now part of Warwick- also German. That other one looks like it's been there since the Hutte was built in the 1930s'! I dig that art style / sketches too. so much with so little. I got y Glicee Print! It's awesome! So matte but vibrant. I'm looking for a frame. IT belongs near my desk at home so I can remember to GTFO of the house. Such a nice note too. Let's catch up soon. I'm heading home in a week from Housesitting in Cali.
Hey Joe, sleep was terrible the first night...then fortunately Hannes had an extra pair of wax ear plugs...The high elevation didn't really affect sleep - just the two legendary snore brothers!(lol)... Downhill - the last day (descent to Sölden) was really brutal - recovery has taken forever...I know there are plenty of strengthening tricks (work-outs) but honestly the best approach is to simulate your training as much as possible to match the intensity of whatever challenge is waiting. If you don't have lots of hills - find a tall building and hit the steps. Conditioning up and down is very important!!! Three of the five guitars I came across were really beautiful and had such great sound. My figers were not in form - haven't played nearly enough lately to truly flow...but, I did give it a try <3 Thanks for your input and yes! let's catch up soon!!! Giant hug from Germany!
Das Wanderlust! Regarding 'what's going on in my head while I'm painting?' I think you are improvising and want surprises and aren't' so concerned with the finished product because you know it'll be good if you stay in that flow state. Or at least it will be an accurate representation of the process. Your painting seems to be a meditation and you are so practiced it at it you forget ; you are just pushing thoughts out so they don't take you into familiar places. No jazz musician wants to take a solo and play something he's played before. Even familiar licks can annoy themselves eventually. And having a preconceived framework is not counter to the idea. Like jazz songs usually have a melody at beginning and end and a chord structure.
Yepper...improvising is such a great place - it's not exactly here - nor there: it just is...the concern for the outcome isn't really a concern at all - love the moment - love the flow - let it go... BUT - with that said: intent and focus is a predetermined moment (to a point...) refined, redefined exploration from our regulated soul - the views from the pathway definitely change as we proceed through the moment but alas - it is...what it is...our path.
@@artiinsideout Word. I guess that sort of explains how the Art and the Environment connect - through the Mapquest game. You predetermine a spot but randomly as you can, and therefore no decision making, only observation on the journey? And if that can apply to the grand journey of life...?! Do you research the spot much before going? Some would be googles ing the whole area and making spots to stop or finding the best 'selfie spots' others have shared. LOL
@@joephillips7612 don't laugh - but, of course I research every spot - I think that's part of the learning...In the second episode it was really interesting finding out about the baker's girl whose life was taken...not all quadrants offer a special story so, I guess I have to make the best out of each one...I have a plethora of stories from each mapquest...but, I think it would be too long of a video to include all
@@artiinsideout i get it. The selfie kids trip me out though. Some of them get off the plans and go to those spots and thats all they care to know.. I'm obsessed with the history of areas and mega researcher. In the last 2 months I have learned tons about Panama, Puerto Rico, USVI, and parts of Mehico. I even joined FB groups of expats living in those places so I could hear (in English) what folks think of it. I feel like I have lived in some of them already. One thing is clear: i need to create a journey so I have a path to enjoy the views from - some adventure while my knees and budget can handle it.
Glad to assist in any way...As previously mentioned - a sink is awesome...a place to work with chemicals (oil based inks/turpentine and,...,...,...and Good ventilation if you are working with crazy chemicals (a metal table with a stove vent is great - <3
Those 3 selfies are rad. I see clean lines and solid colors in the classical, and organized chaos in the jazz one with millions of details making one cohesive thing, and organic grasses and woodgrain / bark textures in the bluegrass one (and a red nose from moonshine LOL). IT's weird how even a close up of an eyeball can convey a specific emotion.
Thanks Joe. I haven't done a self portrait in so long...you learn a lot about yourself and then with the influence of music creating a complete different quality with mark making, color choice and more...,...,...there might have been a lovely schnapps wandering around the studio...
Another great show. I'm always a little perplexed by 2 things: when you paint a picture and then clear coat over it and paint another version.... and when you go to great lengths to set into an epic sketch setting and then just do a little small one or black white - instead of a larger 'sellable' work. but I'm not a painter so ... do you clear coat and 'start over' because you didn't like the outcome or because you want the original picture to contribute to the background colors? And do you grow and learn from those sketches and that's more important than producing commercially 'sellable' art? Or maybe just the act of going and doing is what it's really about?
Hey Joe...It's actually not a 100% clear coat...I use a tad color to create and build translucent grades of colors - ...It builds history and makes the surface much more interesting to look at closely...then, the further away you get from the painting - the colors mix/blend automatically into something different than is actually there...
I love the painting you did. I am intrigued as well by the multiple paintings being done at once. I am setting up a studio space for my daughter. If you ever want to talk about your space and how you make it work for you, that could be interesting. Ich hoffe allest ist gut! Bis spaeter!
Hey Greg, Glad you liked it...yes! working on multiple paintings is quite exciting...messes made can easily become really awesome gems. I definitely love switching momentum onto a smaller format... Fantastic that you're making a studio space for Zoe. A sink is really important (my tip). I'm actually going to be moving some stuff around to make for more open space (and a hide-away couch - need a relaxing space to look at work...). We shall see - definitely a fun project to document! Alles gut hier - Danke... More soon<3
