Wayne and Rebecca Madsen

Album: Robot paintings

This is a partial listing of my work that I painted over the summer while living in Seattle. These paintings are now in the process of being reworked, so all these pieces are being shown unfinished/in-the-process of being completed. As I work on them, I will post pictures of what they look like now.

Album: Starting Over Again

Here are the first two attempts at "perfecting" my work from the summer.

Album: Phase II

Second stage of working on these four pieces. I am still struggling with spacial relationships. I'm happier with the latest one I started and the balance between "media saturation" and visual narrative. Need to start putting these in shows and see reactions to them. You might want to visit here to see what these paintings used to look like a month ago.

Album: Phase III

This is the third stage in this series of paintings. Some new paintings. Karl let me borrow his projector and I used some of the 3D characters I built in Swift 3D. I also introduced some images from airline safety cards. I think those images get more to the root of where these ideas came from.

Album: Untitled steel sculpture

I wanted to make a time-based project which would evolve visually and functionally. When we were living in Seattle, we went to a sculpture garden where an artist had built a "wall" of twine on a tree and over time the moisture had caused the taught twine to loose its tensile strength and sag. I felt that this was an interesting transition from a form that resembled geometric wire to a organic hair; I wanted to use a similar concept but instead of integrating it with another organic form, to use a...

Album: Phase IV

Another installment of work on my robot/symbol paintings. This is probably the last group of pictures I'll take of the paintings in progress. Most of them are finished now, so maybe I'll post them on my portfolio page. Hopefully this group of work is strong enough to get me into a good MFA program. Sorry for the poor quality, but I don't want people stealing my images! ;)

Album: A Study of Emily

I've been working on painting more portraits lately (do you remember those paintings I did of kids from my church last year). Painting people is HARD WORK. I'm so embarrassed to even post pictures of this painting in progress because it doesn't look good at all. But Emily asked me to, so I will. She is willing to sit staring at the wall for me, so I figured the least I can do is share my mediocrity with the world. ;)

I think that I have a great deal to learn about painting portraits. I was...

Album: Jetty

Album: The angry machine gets angry again

Album: Christus Diptych

Album: if we ever get to an empty tree, then the number we were looking for wasn't in the tree

This painting was something I worked on for a long time. It went through many different stages, and I never knew where I wanted it to end up until I reached the finished product. Because it was the first large scale painting I worked on, and it consumed more than 8-10 months, I vowed never to return to such a large scale. However, I now only work on a scale that is even larger.