{"id":602,"date":"2008-04-07T18:50:52","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T22:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jeffco.ca\/blog2\/?p=602"},"modified":"2012-04-14T15:00:29","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T20:00:29","slug":"painting-study-for-no-night-too-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jeffco.ca\/blog2\/2008\/04\/07\/painting-study-for-no-night-too-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting: Study for No Night Too Long"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_603\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-603\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-603\" title=\"nonightstudy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jeffco.ca\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/nonightstudy.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;A study for a possible future larger piece, this acrylic on canvas work was done as a colour and stylistic test for a more elaborate work to be entitled 'No Night Too Long'. The scene depicted is a variation on the opening scenes of the classic Universal feature 'Frankenstein', showing the grieving mourners as they lay an unidentified body to rest.&quot; \" width=\"640\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jeffco.ca\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/nonightstudy.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.jeffco.ca\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/nonightstudy-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-603\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Study for &#39;No Night Too Long&#39;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--more-->I really can&#8217;t tell you if I love this tiny painting or if I hate it. I know I&#8217;ve felt both at different points, and other times felt both at the same time. It&#8217;s a study for a larger artwork I mapped out in my mind last summer, and I did the study as a gift for someone for Christmas. (The finished larger piece was originally conceived of as a gift for him as well, I just didn&#8217;t get there in time. If I do finish it, I&#8217;ll offer that to him as well if he would like it).<\/p>\n<p>The study isn&#8217;t what I expected it to be. I thought I was developing an exciting new style and language and I ended back in places I&#8217;d gone before. Not sure if that&#8217;s some kind of failure or something, or even if it&#8217;s relevant, but I didn&#8217;t see it as such, then or now.<\/p>\n<p>Just because you didn&#8217;t end up where you were headed, doesn&#8217;t mean you had didn&#8217;t have a good ride.<\/p>\n<p>I know I loved it at the time I painted it. I couldn&#8217;t wait to start or to finish or to frame or to stare; I couldn&#8217;t get enough of it. I looked at it and looked at it (the way I had with Mike Ferris&#8217; photo of The White Knight sculpture). It showed me a roadmap of potential and of greatness. It made me want to work day and night to (start and) finish the bigger work it was to become. I still see some of that work in my mind (though there are big areas of grey and I don&#8217;t know how they&#8217;d work), but I think maybe I peaked too soon. Or burned too brightly. Or stalled too long. I don&#8217;t know if the larger artwork will ever come, or if it would match what I meant it to be. Most likely it will be another on the long list of well-intentioned ideas that never quite found fruition. I think I hope I&#8217;ll finish it, but that&#8217;s easy to say flippantly. That&#8217;s just what you say. Truth is, I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s in me to do or not, or if I really want to anymore, or if it matters at all if I did.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back, I think I do still like this particular study though when I look at it and don&#8217;t read into it what it isn&#8217;t. I don&#8217;t know for sure.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m probably not the one you should be asking for art criticism though about my own stuff anyway. By the time I finally grasp, finally understand my own work, I&#8217;ve long past moved on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,7],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artwork-studio","category-studio","tag-painting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Painting: Study for No Night Too Long &#8211; Jeffco Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffco.ca\/blog2\/2008\/04\/07\/painting-study-for-no-night-too-long\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Painting: Study for No Night Too Long &#8211; 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