Jim Blodget

March 14, 2023

Blodget Music

In 1995 I created an audio CD of my electronic music. At the time I was working on a Macintosh II FX computer and my electronic keyboard was a Roland U-20.

Blodget Music

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Auto Bend with Bells(Jim Blodget)

Anxious Music(Jim Blodget)

Jazz Mania(Jim Blodget)

Mac TV(Jim Blodget)

Boris Music(Jim Blodget)

Stained Glass Fugue(Jim Blodget)

Native Experience(Jim Blodget)

Satori(Jim Blodget)

Industrial Rag(Jim Blodget)

Spinner(Jim Blodget)

Space Toasters(Jim Blodget)

Oh No, Don't Go(Jim Blodget)

Then 'Till Now(Dan Jones and Jim Blodget)

Shadow of a Star(Jim Blodget)

Deep Purple(played by Jim Blodget)

Cast Your Fate to the Wind(played by Jim Blodget)

Maple Leaf Rag(played by Jim Blodget)

Bethena(played by Jim Blodget)

Fur Elise(played by Jim Blodget)

Textbook Toolbox Ad(Jim Blodget)

May 27, 2018

Dory Boat

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Dory boats are small, flat bottomed fishing boats designed to launch and land from the beach at Pacific City on the Oregon coast. Haystack Rock is a mile off the beach and is the tallest of several large rock monoliths along the Oregon coast.

This is the second small 8×8 inch painting I’m donating to Artists in Action to sell at the World Beat Festival at Riverfront Park in Salem, Oregon to raise funds for the group.

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May 17, 2018

Minto Island Poppies

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The local group of artists that I belong to (Artists in Action) will be holding a sale at the end of June (at the World Beat Festival in Salem) to raise money for the group. This year members are painting 8×8 inch stretched canvases and donating them to sell unframed for $20 each. Quite a bargain for an original painting. This is the one I’m donating. I painted it today using acrylics. Let me know if you’re interested in purchasing the painting. I’ll put a sold sticker on it.

Jim

April 10, 2018

Poppies and Lupin

I’m testing Faber-Castell Gel Sticks. These watercolors in gel form are meant for kids. They are like a twistable crayon and come in a set of 12 colors. I thought I would try them out on a flower sketch.

April 8, 2018

She Wolf Portrait

She Wolf Experiments

The last two days I’ve experimented with new art supplies. I bought a new Kuretake watercolor palette. It took a month to get here from Japan. So, I was anxious to try out the colors. I decided to use a portrait reference from the Julia Kay Portrait Party group on Flickr. I did a quick pen sketch and used the new palette to color it.
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April 5, 2018

Four Flowers

I did these small flower studies all on the same piece of paper. The first thing I did was adhere the paper to a piece of 2mm Sintra PVC panel with some brushed on acrylic soft gel medium. I let that dry for about an hour under some heavy books. Next I split the page into quarters with blue painter’s tape.
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April 4, 2018

On the Willamette

I did this small study today to test out how watersoluble markers work on a smooth gessoed panel. It’s like working with a limited selection of watercolors. Also I discovered that ink just sits on top of the gesso. It does not stick or sink into it. So, if you apply a second layer, it tends to lift the previous layer instead of building up to a darker more opaque color. The color remains transparent and shows the texture and streaks in the gesso underneath.

6×6 inch (15×15 cm) Sintra PVC gessoed panel, Arteza Real Brush pens, and Arteza flat waterbrush.

Jim

April 3, 2018

Daffodils in the Woods

I’m looking for a way to do plein air paintings without carrying brushes or water or wet media. I did this small study to see how tempera paint sticks and brush markers handle on canvas panel. I laid in the major areas of color with the paint sticks first and then I added detail with darker colors using the brush markers.

Reference Photo – Daffodils in the Woods

Tempera Underpainting

5×7 (12.5×17.7 cm) canvas panel, Mod Paint Sticks, Arteza Real Brush Pens.

Jim

March 28, 2018

Camellia Bush

This bush is in our backyard. It’s in full bloom. I’ve been glancing at it throughout the day thinking about how I’d approach sketching it with paint sticks dabbing on the pure color. Finally, before dinner I found the time to sit down and try out my plan.

Fabriano Studio Watercolor hot press 140 lbs 8×10 inch (20.3×25.4 cm) paper, Mod Paint Sticks.

March 26, 2018

Donnottar Castle Scotland

Donnottar Castle

Sketching from Google Street View. Testing tempra paint sticks on smooth paper with water.

Strathmore Mixed Media 400 Series 9×12 inch (22.9×30.5 cm) paper, pencil, Mod Tempra Paint sticks, Arteza flat waterbrush, ArtGraf Viarco 6B water-soluble pencil, Kuretake #13 brush fountain pen with Platinum Carbon Black ink, and Molotow 2mm empty pump marker with Dr. Ph. Martin Pen-White ink.

January 27, 2018

Freehand vs Traced Underdrawing

Today I did two small sketches (3.5×6 inches each) of the same photo reference to compare sketching freehand and sketching using a traced underdrawing. I did the freehand sketch first.
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August 17, 2017

Audio Player Test

I’m testing the built-in audio file playlist capabilities in WordPress. You upload a bunch of audio files into the Media library and then create an audio playlist like you would an image gallery using the Add Media button when you are composing a post.

Four Ballades: Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23: Largo

The Abominal Snowman

my-song

Frere Jacque

Jim

January 10, 2017

Slide Miniatures

The other day I found a box of cardboard heat-seal 35mm slide mounts and an old custom built slide mounting press. I wondered if it still worked and if so, how I might put it to good use. It occurred to me that I could do miniature paintings and frame them in slide mounts as a novelty. They might make interesting business cards.

December 29, 2016

Willamette River

Winter in the Willamette Valley has its own stark beauty – cold and gray. I thought charcoal would be the best medium to express this scene interpreted from a personal photo.

December 19, 2016

Yachats Trees Block Print

Yachts Trees Final Print

This is a seven color hand-pulled print 6×6 inches (15.2×15.2 cm). There are 10 prints in this edition.

Some projects take a long time to complete. I worked on the first six colors over the course of several weeks last Spring. Then the project sat on the shelf for six months until I figured out how I was going to print the final black layer.