https://gringoh.com/2014/08/06/the-poor-what-have-you-done-for-me-lately/https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/the-poor-low-res.jpgThe Poor - Low ResThe Poor: What Have You Done For Me Lately? 2011. Acrylic and Enamel on Luan. 18" x 24"2014-08-06T21:30:55+00:00monthlyhttps://gringoh.com/2013/12/19/mfiami-no-se/https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/wedding-160.jpgWedding 160https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/wedding-159.jpgWedding 159https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/wedding-158.jpgWedding 158https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/wedding-157.jpgWedding 157https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/wedding-137.jpgWedding 137https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/gringoh_miami.jpgGrinGoh_Miami[M]Fiami: No se. 2012. Acrylic on Panel. 14" x 18"2014-08-06T20:28:56+00:00monthlyhttps://gringoh.com/2013/01/22/newark-watch-planes-get-the-fuck-outta-here/2013-12-19T06:17:28+00:00monthlyhttps://gringoh.com/2013/01/12/richmond-irrelevant-since-1865/2013-12-19T06:15:59+00:00monthlyhttps://gringoh.com/2012/12/03/opening-post-to-get-things-started/2013-12-19T06:14:46+00:00monthlyhttps://gringoh.com/2013/12/19/patriarchy-happiness-is-women-wo-an-education-andor-clitorises/https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/wedding-085.jpgWedding 085The basic underpainting. For detail work I like to use Golden Acrylics because of their high pigment load. I'll use Golden Fluid Acrylics or Windsor & Newton Acrylics for the large swaths of colour because they spread better. You'll also notice the composition looks odd without the "reflective" edge framing the sign.https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/wedding-106.jpgWedding 106Detail of the AK. I also left this grey, not because I wanted to make it look more metallic, but because the grey made it seem more menacing. https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/wedding-103.jpgWedding 103Detail showing the large swaths of multiple layer of colour.https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/wedding-089.jpgWedding 089A seemingly better, or at least more unified, composition due to the "reflective" edge, here painted white. I left the sporaticaly painted section on the bottom alone because it seemed like a fitting allusion to bullets being fired out of the gun.https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/wedding-081.jpgWedding 081I sort of liked the way this looked on its own.https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/wedding-080.jpgWedding 080Detail of AK-47 charcoal outlining done by the assistant, a high school student. Makes me shudder now.https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/wedding-079.jpgWedding 079Detail showing the charcoal outlining- lots of ruler work, this time done by a young assistant who has an obsessive eye for detail. https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/gringoh_patriarchy.jpgGrinGoh_PatriarchyPatriarchy: Happiness is Women w/o [an] Education and/or Clitorises. 2012. Acrylic on Panel. 18" x 32"2013-12-19T05:44:45+00:00monthlyhttps://gringoh.com/2013/12/18/georgetown-i-know-raight/https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/georgetown-i-know-raight1.jpgGeorgetown - I know raightGeorgetown: I know, raight? 2011. Acrylic on Baltic Birch Ply. 18" x 18"2013-12-19T04:34:04+00:00monthlyhttps://gringoh.com/2013/12/15/brooklyn-we-know-you-know-we-are-cooler-than-you/https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/brooklyn.jpgBrooklynCorner Detail - Still experimenting with the outside curved band and its effects on the picture plane. In practice on the Interstate Highway System, the band is usually all the way to the edge and reflective.https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/brooklyn-01.jpgBrooklyn 01Brooklyn: [We k]now you know we are cooler than you. 2011. Acrylic on Baltic Birch Ply. 36" x 48".https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/brooklyn-22.jpgBrooklyn (22)The non-erased "Now Entering" is less welcoming and was seemingly put on the sign after "welcome to" had been erased. However, due to the frantic nature of the non-unified underpainting, the egress indication is still hard to read.https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/brooklyn-20.jpgBrooklyn (20)"Welcome to" seemingly blocked out by official-looking anti-graffiti Kilz, as if yielding to the sentiments of the local population. I also was playing with the size of the borough name/ego and decided to leave both.https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/brooklyn-19.jpgBrooklyn (19)Clearer detail of erasure wordplay; if you didn't already know that the people who live in Brooklyn were cooler than you, now you know.https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/brooklyn-15.jpgBrooklyn (15)Erasure wordplay; if you didn't already know that the people who live in Brooklyn were cooler than you, now you know.https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/brooklyn-2.jpgBrooklyn (2)The frantic, Abstract Expressionist style of the underpainting is common for the signs. I liked this one enough, however, to keep as the visible coat. I felt it fit the direction of the text somehow.2013-12-16T04:37:01+00:00monthlyhttps://gringoh.com/2013/12/15/chicago-come-for-the-wind-stay-for-the-crime-details/https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/chicago.jpgChicago: Come for the Wind, Stay for the CrimeChicago: Come for the Wind, Stay for the Crime. 2011. Acrylic on Canvas. 36" x 48"https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/basement-148.jpgChicago Sports TeamThe visibility of detail is based on how many years have passed since the last championship. https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/basement-146.jpgWhite Sox (MLB- American League)Last Championship: 2005https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/basement-145.jpgChicago Sky (WNBA)No Championships (grayed-out)https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/basement-143.jpgChicago Fire (MLS)Last Championship: 1998https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/basement-142.jpgChicago Cubs (MLB - National League)Last Championship: 1908 https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/basement-139.jpgChicago Bulls (NBA)Last Championship: 1998https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/basement-137.jpgChicago Blackhawks (NHL)Last Championship: 2010 (2013)https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/basement-134.jpgChicago Bears (NFL)Last Championship: 19842013-12-16T03:56:41+00:00monthlyhttps://gringoh.com/2013/03/27/some-details-of-newark-watch-planes-get-the-fuck-outta-here/https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/flood-074.jpgFlood 074Some candy pink to start the lightening for the lettering.2013-03-27T06:15:03+00:00monthlyhttps://gringoh.com/2013/01/12/richmond-irrelevant-since-1865-details/https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/richmond-084.jpgRichmond 084I'm notorious for glazing. This to me was impasto!https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/magnified-edited.jpgMagnified EditedGetting rough with the surface starts to show a number of the layers of underpainting and the previously-"erased" logo.https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/richmond-113.jpgRichmond 113The this is also an underpainting of the logo, the final being more red and consistent.https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/richmond-099.jpgRichmond 099You can see the underlying texture with side-lighting but no visible color comes through for ghosting.https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/richmond-096.jpgRichmond 096I thought the first layer of cover-up was too light/watery.https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/richmond-076.jpgRichmond, underpainting- horseSome underpainting for the horse on the heraldic crest.https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/richmond-0801.jpgRichmond 080The Phillip Morris logo as it originally stood.2013-01-13T03:58:22+00:00monthlyhttps://gringoh.com/2012/12/03/all-the-shit-i-never-want-to-do-as-an-artist-but-always-seem-to-be-told-i-have-to/2012-12-03T22:14:56+00:00monthlyhttps://gringoh.com/about/https://gringoh.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/gringoh-edit.jpgGrinGoh-editAdding detail in the basement, 'cause that's where the bass went.2012-12-03T20:02:02+00:00weekly0.6https://gringoh.comdaily1.02014-08-06T21:30:55+00:00