“First Friday Art Walk” event at Highlandtown Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Feb 7, 5 to 9pm. I will be displaying eight pieces of artwork. Please take the time to stop in to see my art along with a host of other wonderful works by other artists.
“The Journey to Ukazoo” book will also be available.
Shown is one of the my eight: “Back to Back”, oil on canvas
Copyright: Craig L Haupt
Continuing to highlight the ‘Journey’ text & art in the Body portion of the Book, all the stops along my trek across the country and back again route were in the U.S except one. With my previous stop, Dec.16/22, 2013, being in upstate New York, I choose to venture into Canada. With passbook in hand, Stop #30 of the 37 stories/image took me to Saguenay, Quebec during the Christmas holidays. Considering the season and the image, the story became a tongue and cheek version of the Twelve Days of Christmas.
As for the present Journey to Ukazoo Book project, my focus has been on getting the video storyboard worked out for filming my submission video to Kickstarter. At the same time I am combining the 2 minute descriptive dialog of the video with additional text to flesh out the more informative portion of the ‘Kickstarter’ ‘Story’ profile worksheet. Both of these descriptions will be visible on the Kickstarter site once the funding campaign is launched in March.
Image: ‘Strolling Lawn Vases’ – in Private Collection
Watercolor, Pen & Ink
Text and Image: Copyright Craig L Haupt
Ukazoo: Trademark Ukazoo Books with permission.
♪Now all them’s colors have been finalized
The background and them figures with little eyes
Embellishments such as tv’s, bowls and such
Some’s important, some’s don’t matter much ♪
♪There’s a lesson contained in this painting
My words I sing, not to keep you waiting
Check that stamped date before you buy
The odor emitted might just make you cry♪
♫Chorus
Them’s Post Expiration Date Blues
Checking the month, day, and year should be duly noted
Oh Them’s Post Expiration Date Blues
Aptly suggest that the can might be bloated ♫
The final painting of the 12 + 12 Project
Next Monday: The start of the ‘The Journey to Ukazoo Book’ Project.
Text and image: Copyright Craig L Haupt
♪ Oh this worksheet I manage to construct,
Arranging shapes with thought and luck
Connecting everything to a can of soup
As awful odors knock you for a loop ♪
♪ Even after the paintings first stokes are started
Questions of placement and a few items departed
With an eraser several selections require a tweak
Those final results I will show you next week ♪
♫ Chorus
Them’s Post Expiration Date Blues
Checking the month, day, and year should be duly noted
Oh Them’s Post Expiration Date Blues
Aptly suggest that the can might be bloated ♫
‘Post Expiration Date Blues’
Words and image: Copyright Craig L Haupt
‘Post Expiration Date Blues’
♪Oh my, them’s doodles, so many to select
The first one I chose, ended up as a reject
It wouldn’t fit with Two, Three and Four
So I let myself peruse to select even more ♪
♪As I flip the pages of this finished sketchbook
My eyes get weary as I continue to look
I finally decide I have more than enough
Now my task is a narrative and to arrange this stuff ♪
♫Chorus
Them’s Post Expiration Date Blues
Checking the month, day, and year should be duly noted
Oh Them’s Post Expiration Date Blues
Aptly suggest that the can might be bloated ♫
Words and image Copyright Craig L Haupt
Next Monday, ‘The Worksheet’
12 + 12 Song/poem reminder note: For those that read the explanation text included with the Monday posts, tomorrow, the last painting in the 12 + 12 project ‘The Post expiration Date Blues’ (Doddle, Worksheet, and Finished painting) will be written in Song/poem format.
Image accompanying this reminder post: Red Lips I, pen & ink, watercolor.
Copyright Craig L Haupt
Project: 12 + 12, 12 x 12’s #23 of 24
Title-’A Bridge in Time’
Third sequenced post, ‘The Finished Painting’
To reference the ‘Doodles’ used, my favorite youngest son’s initial choice was a future city scene. I decided to use another ’Doodle’ he selected as the main subject but I did figure a way of using the ’city’. With his fondest of posting T-Rex/dinosaur memes/videos on FaceBook, I worked in a few dinosaurs, albeit tiny, and thus they and the city spawned the Title.
Next Monday the ‘Doodle’ for the final painting in this project.
A Note: The final painting in this project is called ‘Post Expiration Date Blues’ and the descriptive text for the three Monday posts (’Doodle’, Worksheet’, and Painting’) will be done in Song lyric format with verse and chorus.
Image copyright Craig L Haupt
Project: 12 + 12, 12 x 12’s #23 of 24
Title-’A Bridge in Time’
Second sequenced post, ‘The Worksheet’.
Using ‘Doodle’ #3 (you can scroll back to the Oct. 8 post to see the ’Doodles’ used for the worksheet) for the main design, I was faced with three downward projections/columns. As the worksheet design developed, each downward column became a wide block that screamed for some type of design to fill it. To the left-added the rectangles, triangles filtered into the right one, and for the center I chose a grouping of random hieroglyphics type shapes.
Now time for transfer to a board and paint.
Next Monday the ‘Finished Painting’
Image copyright Craig L Haupt
Project: 12 + 12, 12 x 12’s #23 of 24
Title-’A Bridge in Time’
First sequenced post, ‘The Doodle’.
After a slight intermission for Postings of the 1448 Gallery exhibit, the Monday’s posting will now return to the 12 + 12, 12 x 12’s project. After over two years of Monday postings, these are the final two paintings in the project.
From the + 12 portion of this project, the ‘Doodles’ for this painting were selected by Jesse, one of my two sons. My other son, Eric, had chosen ‘doodles’ for painting #12.
Jesse’s first choice was the doodle circled as #1. Not satisfied with this doodle as the main subject, I selected, from another of his choices circled as #2, the one to the left circled as #3 to play the main subject/design role.
Next Monday the ‘Worksheet’
Image copyright Craig L Haupt
Project: 12 + 12, 12 x 12’s #22 of 24
Title-’Day in the Park’
Third sequenced post, ‘The Finished Painting’.
With the primary design at the center as geometric forms I wanted to balance this painting with surrounding softer forms and colors. Oil on Board
Next Monday: ‘The Doodle’ for painting #23 of 24
Image copyright Craig L Haupt
