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	One-a-Day Paintings Tom Ferguson 1983 - 1984 (most paintings 27 x 23")
you can use the "next" button to navigate thru these starting with: One, two... To Get to First Base The City or the country View from the Schoolhouse Chagall's Place Feet on the Ground Earth & Air Warding Off Superstition Holy Water Sideline U Nork Cherokee Country Serious Fish Lost But Making Good Time Scrubberman Several Major Problems Plague the Patriarchy Cat Having Jamais Vu First Born Conscious Indian Hallow's Eve Allergory of the Shower Oscar das Kleinkind Civilians and the Clouds The Sometimes Sad Human Going in Glory to the Kitchen Christmyth Also from the 1-a-day books: Abstraction & White Paintings Double Helix FBI at CIA Slot Eye Opener Spinal Tug Another Slot More from 1-a-day books Homosapian at the Fence The Temporal Nature of Hound Dogs Parking Lot Q The Is and the Ain't Eddie Beachballs 48 Soldiers Anyarmy Denise Catrabbit Childless	Reaching the end of my interest in the Word Paintngs I had been doing for two years I remembered one-a-day drawing books I kept from 1969 to 1974. After that period I still kept sketch books & journals but the 1-a-days were unwavering, one drawing a day,... brush my teeth, do my drawing (I kept a 1-page-a-day stream of consciousness writing journal for the same years). I would usually just set the pen point down somewhere on the paper, move it and see what happened, where it went. \ I dug out the books and found endless painting material there. I liked the fact that these were to be paintings of drawings - not preparatory drawing then painting, paintings OF drawings... drawings were the subject. As with the word series; paintings of two dimensional objects. It provided a revitalized structure for my continuing interest in impasto and smearing, scumbling, mixing effects. No doubt the then current neo-expressionist movement encouraged me in this. There are two distinct ways of painting during this time neatly demonstrated by the front & back covers of the brochure accompanying a 1984-5 touring retrospective (see above right). The earlier paintings are characterized by heavy impasto, gooey mixing (referred to above), the later add scumbling to the equation producing a markedly different feel. This way of painting continued as the subject later shifted into other areas in 1985. I was still living on savings from the near 4-year Cyclorama restoration project. I did occasional drawings & odd jobs but mostly focused on my art. I would enter competitive exhibitions these years, getting in about half the time, paying a fee and for shipping but filling the ol' resume. Cyndia entrepreneured a business documenting construction projects photographically which I helped out on. One of those was aerial, renting a helicopter once a month. We decided to get pregnant in 1985. Knowing that was going to be a commiment financially & time-wise, that was as late as I could talk Cyndia into delaying it. She would be mid-thirties, getting into that danger zone. I had assumed i'd not have children, never own a house etc; due to my "career" choice. Cyndia showed me otherwise.	1984-5 Georgia Touring Retrospective Brochure Front Back Artist Statement & Peter Morrin Essay contact Madison-Morgan Cultural Center Macon Museum of Arts & Science, Macon Chattahoochee Valley Art Association, LaGrange Albany Museum of Art Okefenokee Heritage Center, Waycross Gertrude Herbert Memorial Institute of Art, Augusta Creative Arts Guild, Dalton back to main to Head Paintings Index
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