{"id":654,"date":"2006-09-05T10:36:39","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T14:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/05\/latest-acquisition\/"},"modified":"2006-09-14T23:02:07","modified_gmt":"2006-09-15T03:02:07","slug":"latest-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/05\/latest-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’ve been following the “Hanging Around The House<\/a>” postsMan, I should really finish that…two more posts should bring us up to date.<\/footnote>, you have a pretty good sense of what kind of stuff decorates the walls around here.<\/p>\n

New stuff is coming in at a slow, but constant rate–indeed at the moment I have a small Barry Windsor-Smith<\/a> print, and a larger Tom Canty<\/a> print off at the framers–but typically has to rest for a while before I do anything with it. I’m starting to run out of walls.<\/p>\n

However, I can’t help get really excited when original art comes in. It doesn’t matter if it’s gigantic original paintings…which, if I ever get around to finishing the series, you will see<\/footnote>, or original art from comics. For the most part, the comic art doesn’t end up on the walls–it ends up in a portfolio–but there are exceptions that I get excited enough about to frame. <\/p>\n

One of the comic artists I really dig is Scott Morse<\/a>. If you were following the series, you will have seen that I own six pages of the original art from Soulwind<\/a>: the “cats & process philosophy<\/a>” pages, and the final four pages with the “satori climax<\/a>” moment.<\/p>\n

I love these pages, and I really like the faux-Japanese inkbrush style Morse used on them. However, this style is very different from how Morse’s work looks today<\/a>, and I felt like I should have something in the collection that captures his current style. <\/p>\n

So, when I saw a chance to grab one of the painted original pages from his book VOLCANIC<\/a> REVOLVER<\/a>, I jumped. You can literally see Morse’s style evolving in this book.<\/p>\n

The book was published in black & whiteWell, “brown & white” or “sepia & white” really, but it’s two-tone anyway…<\/footnote>, but the framing sequences that open and close the book were painted and reproduced in a greyscale“brownscale”?<\/footnote>. It turns out these pieces were painted in colour, a yellow\/blue combination that doesn’t seem out of line with Morse’s current works, but which also was likely chosen to reproduce well in the two-tone print.<\/p>\n

And I now own one of these pages.<\/p>\n

Here’s roughly how it looked in the printed product–you’ll have to imagine that there were some speech ballons on the page:<\/p>\n

\"Morse<\/p>\n

Well, here’s how it looks if you have access to the original colour painting:<\/p>\n

\"Morse<\/a><\/p>\n

That image is a link to a ridiculously high-resolution scan, where you can see the details of the brushwork, and where you can see the texture of the paper. That hi-res scan is more for me than for you–I’ll probably break chunks off of it and make them into wall papers, etc.<\/p>\n

I think I’ll be getting this piece framed sometime in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’ve been following the “Hanging Around The House” postsMan, I should really finish that…two more posts should bring us up to date., you have a pretty good sense of what kind of stuff decorates the walls around here. New stuff is coming in at a slow, but constant rate–indeed at the moment I have a small Barry Windsor-Smith print,… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storytime","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-ay","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}