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The Super Colossal Mess Jungle 2.0

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on April 30, 2020 by Michael D. SmithApril 30, 2020

Following up on the building of the red stretcher and stretching its canvas, here’s the sequence of the completed painting, though as usual I forgot to chronicle all of it, so we see just a couple major steps and the … Continue reading →

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Stretching the Canvas

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on April 22, 2020 by Michael D. SmithApril 22, 2020

This almost has to be demonstrated in person before it makes sense, but I’m giving it a verbal try here. First, vacuum the floor to get up items like cat hair. Unroll the canvas on the floor. Place the completed … Continue reading →

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Construction of the Red Stretcher

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on April 12, 2020 by Michael D. SmithApril 22, 2020

This will be a non-adjustable stretcher. It doesn’t allow further adjusting of canvas tension as with commercially-made stretcher bars, which have corner slots that aren’t glued, along with pegs which you hammer into these slots to take up slack. However, … Continue reading →

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Uncomplicated Redefinition

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on December 30, 2017 by Michael D. SmithDecember 30, 2017

I had the idea of painting a 12” x 9” November journal drawing onto a 50” x 32” canvas, but when the morning to paint came and I studied what had been a fun and meditative drawing, I found myself … Continue reading →

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Either the Orange Rhinoceros Tarot or the Sortmind Tarot

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on June 30, 2015 by Michael D. SmithAugust 31, 2019

A new Tarot Card page on sortmind.com showcases a handful of the seventy-eight cards in my eccentric Tarot deck, which really doesn’t have a name so I guess two rough draft names will do for now. Sometime in 2000 the … Continue reading →

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The Official Portrait

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on June 15, 2015 by Michael D. SmithJune 26, 2019

Jack Commer, the Official Portrait overpaints a despised pencil image. I’d entered the original October 2006 drawing, “Jack Commer, Supreme Commander, United System Space Force, ca. Summer 2036,” into a “Superheroes” art contest in Denison, Texas that fall and I’ve … Continue reading →

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Trip to Mars, the Picture Book, or, How the Ship Became a Fantastical Theater Stage

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on March 28, 2014 by Michael D. SmithJuly 12, 2020

My first “novel,” Trip to Mars, was fifty-five penciled pages in a small yellow notebook, starring Jack Commer and outlining the horrors of a 2033 World War IV and the evacuation of Earth’s surviving population to Mars.  Was the sixth … Continue reading →

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Default Forces

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on March 4, 2014 by Michael D. SmithJune 27, 2019

I’ve grown quite enamored of this painting I did a couple weeks ago.  But I hated it and cursed the monster as I fought to hook it and lash it to my little boat for hour after demented hour like … Continue reading →

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Arboreal Ghosts / Last Stop This Route

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on September 8, 2012 by Michael D. SmithJune 27, 2019

I think a couple years ago I would have thought “Arboreal Ghosts” another “excellent painting” to add to my “body of work.”  But what the painting really is, and I think I see this with newly-opened eyes, is another “decent … Continue reading →

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The Continuing Abstract Art Crisis

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on March 31, 2012 by Michael D. SmithJune 27, 2019

Being overly busy and overly inclined to slap projects together and ship them out the door, declaring victory after victory, I have not been much inclined to slow down to zero and come to grips with my crisis in abstract … Continue reading →

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