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Exit Perspective

By Michael James Armstrong | Published: January 4, 2010
oh my dear blog, how i’ve neglected you. i know you forgive me. let’s see, what’s happened since august? well, one thing is that i sold this piece! “Exit Perspective” – 96″ x 18″, spray paint on steel notice the back color. that violet gave the piece a good color-bounce-shadow that was a [...]
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black glass

By Michael James Armstrong | Published: March 14, 2009
white spray paint on glass.  18″ X 30″ reflection view:
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first painting of 09

By Michael James Armstrong | Published: February 23, 2009
during one art-night awhile back, my friend jan (john) was looking through my sketch book picking out the pages he liked best.  among a couple others he chose this as one of the drawings he liked: he said it reminded him of joan miro. i suppose i can see the connection.  although that wasn’t the [...]
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Divide and Contour

By Michael James Armstrong | Published: September 13, 2008
it’s coming ad in the new art ltd. sneek-a-peek-a-loo at the 2 new pieces for this show: half finished but lookin good. see you there.
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art show, iron man, and comic-con

By Michael James Armstrong | Published: August 3, 2008
last weekend was really fun. it was comic-con, i was part of a cool group art show, i had friends in from out of town, i had 4 days off from work, i got to meet and be semi-insulted (all in fun) by ashley wood while he signed my poster and gave me a [...]
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ink pencil paint. – comic-con art show

By Michael James Armstrong | Published: July 18, 2008
Group art show including yours truly @ L Street Fine Art Friday July 25th, 6 – 9pm. What’s that you say? you’re sad to miss it but you’ll be at comic-con that day? Well, unless you plan on staying at the con until late you don’t have to worry. The L [...]
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11 art night sketches + 1 spankin new painting

By Michael James Armstrong | Published: May 11, 2008
here’s some sketches from my art night book. the last time i posted stuff from this book was back in january . so these have all been done since. i usually try to do one every sunday. they’re all done with a 7b graphite pencil and a white charcoal pencil. [...]
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good news, bad news, good news

By Michael James Armstrong | Published: April 11, 2008
so, some new developments since the last post. first, i finished my first spray paint on metal piece. it’s called “who’s afraid of red, yellow, blue, purple, orange, green, black, and white (jacks painting)”. the title is referencing robert irwins huge aluminum panel piece called “Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow & Blue³” [...]
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so i bought some krylonarr

By Michael James Armstrong | Published: March 16, 2008
when i first started painting arrowchitectural decograf i was using canvas. i’d buy them pre-stretched from blick. since i mask my paintings i need a smooth surface – obviously, canvas was a poor choice. in order to get a smooth surface i had to do 3 coats of gesso and sand between [...]
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a guide to my painting process in 10 steps (kind of)

By Michael James Armstrong | Published: September 6, 2007
so, i thought i’d share a bit of my painting process, step by step (well, as many steps as i remembered to photograph). now, this will be a sort of stripped down version because the piece i’m chronicling here is only 3 colors, as opposed to the full color pieces i usually do. [...]
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