The 24 hours of Klowns was conceived as a painting experiment in which one Klown of the Apocalypse logo would be painted every hour continuously for twenty four hours. I would also log my observations about the process throughout the day long duration and this would be included in the insallation. Somewhere after the first two paintings were completed, I decided to also record my thoughts on Twitter, which would be more snippets of things and not the diatribe I was recording on paper. I found the traditional ‘diary’ process on paper to be more formalized and the electronic posting to be much more informal, so, between the two, it captures where I was mentally and physically throughout the painting experiment.
Enjoy,
Luke MacGilvray
Doing the 24 hours of Klowns paintings. 1 painting per hour for 24 hours. 2:41 PM Apr 3rd
Rediscovering my painting skills. Duh! 2:45 PM Apr 3rd
T-minus 3 minutes to start the Klown of Pestilence painting 2:57 PM Apr 3rd
Finished. Interesting twist on the green for pestilence. Looks like it will have the most variation of the 4 logos. 3:39 PM Apr 3rd
The cats are proving to be the biggest nuisance to this project. Wanting to jump up on the wet paintings and pissing on the dropcloths! Ugh! 3:45 PM Apr 3rd
How Its Made marathin is keeping me sane so far. Such a soothing voice 3:49 PM Apr 3rd
Last of the first series of 4 completed. My brainpan is dredging up the requestite skillstes to be able to paint again! 4:36 PM Apr 3rd
My memory of acrylic paint is that is dried alot faster than this is. Irritating 4:40 PM Apr 3rd
The assembly line is now running much smoother. 4:44 PM Apr 3rd
The coffee connundrum. Not enough and I wont be able to stay awake, too much and my hands will shake. 5:56 PM Apr 3rd
So close to finishing up the large paintings of JuJu and Boppity. 6:38 PM Apr 3rd
Hard to beat the first time of 1/2 an hour on the 2nd painting. 6:39 PM Apr 3rd
Did a load of dishes to free up the sink to wash brushes and still have 7 minutes to spare. 6:54 PM Apr 3rd
Pounding them out at about 1/2 an hour each. Thats even with screwing aound with each one to make them slightly different. 7:38 PM Apr 3rd
1/4 of the way into the experiment. So far, so good. 7:43 PM Apr 3rd
The cats are now bored with me. Bast is still sleeping on the part of the couch that I was originally sitting on. 7:48 PM Apr 3rd
Next open time, I need to start sketching out the crowd in the background of the last big piece. 7:52 PM Apr 3rd
Well, that sucked. Just finishing up the last in the 2nd group and it did the buttered toast routine-face down 8:46 PM Apr 3rd
Starting the third batch in 15 minutes. 8:46 PM Apr 3rd
Enough time between these two pieces to snag a coffe and slice of pie. 8:55 PM Apr 3rd
Finished up the 1st of the halfway point set. Starting to get alot of drying paintings around. 9:41 PM Apr 3rd
Do I start screwing the plexiglass over Boppity with the 15+ minutes I have, or do I just chill? 9:43 PM Apr 3rd
Decided to watch Motley Crue behind the music. Love the wretched excess. 9:54 PM Apr 3rd
Fuck! Too much coffee and trying to paint teeth looks like I have a pasly. 10:26 PM Apr 3rd
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is a pretty good book. Been sneaking chapters inbetween paintings. 10:37 PM Apr 3rd
Next painting marks the 1/2 point. Still stoked to do this. We shall see. 11:34 PM Apr 3rd
Partitioning off the paintings from the cats is proving to be more and more difficult. 11:39 PM Apr 3rd
Plexigalss is up on The Klown of War large piece. Just need to find #6 washers that are large to lock it down 11:47 PM Apr 3rd
Need to make sure I drink out of the clean glass of water and not my brush cleaning one. Almost!! 11:51 PM Apr 3rd
1/2 way point. Now to finish off Bolaty and Binxie. More drilling and attaching bits to the paintings. 12:33 AM Apr 4th
Airline distributor finished for Binxie. 12:49 AM Apr 4th
Hitting my stride to finish up everthing. Still need some bits from the store, but it can wait. 12:54 AM Apr 4th
Starting to feel the first real downturn. Time to hit the coffee. 1:38 AM Apr 4th
Starting to write up the paintings. 1:44 AM Apr 4th
Template for painting descriptions done. 1:59 AM Apr 4th
Starting on the more complicated ones in the set (again) 2:31 AM Apr 4th
All the painting write ups done. Will print them out and start to frame them next down time. 2:37 AM Apr 4th
The Wife and Cats are all asleep. Its just me and my paintings. 2:51 AM Apr 4th
Need to start thinking about how to mount and present the 24 hours of Klowns at the gallery. 2:54 AM Apr 4th
Near disaster narrowly averted. Imaptientance and a clogged paint tube. Boom! Luckily, just paint all over me. 3:35 AM Apr 4th
Write up for the 24 Hours of Klowns done 3:39 AM Apr 4th
I am thinking of using the Twitter history as part of the piece description. 3:39 AM Apr 4th
Starting the Martyr sketch. 3:42 AM Apr 4th
My god! Did some of these bands on Metal Mania realize how stupid they looked. 3:43 AM Apr 4th
Updated ManneKorpse.com with web links that I have not been being as diligent as I should have been. 3:51 AM Apr 4th
The cat next to me is snoring. At least someone is enjoying sleep right now. 3:52 AM Apr 4th
Taking a look at one of the bands that may play at the show(s) 3:55 AM Apr 4th
Will be starting on the 5th set in 20 minutes. Getting close to the home stretch. 4:37 AM Apr 4th
Time for another coffee. 4:43 AM Apr 4th
Finally, 120 minutes is on. At least now it will be interesting music I like. 4:45 AM Apr 4th
Taking my time with the next Klown of War logo. Lets see how it turns out. 4:52 AM Apr 4th
Got all serious this last painting. What brush to what paint to exactly where on the canvas. Cool, but weird. 5:33 AM Apr 4th
Kicking some more coffee. Still debating on the shower. I will just climb back into the dirty clothes I am painting in. 5:34 AM Apr 4th
Starting to hear weird crap. Probably just normal stuff I sleep thru. 5:41 AM Apr 4th
Yea. After this next JuJu painting its time for a shower. 5:45 AM Apr 4th
Ahh, the civilizing effects of a shower. Changed clothes, brushed my teeth, Ready to hit it again. 6:35 AM Apr 4th
I was paranoid that after my shower I would find cat prints in the heavy paint and a line of footprints in the white carpet.They were good. 6:36 AM Apr 4th
The sun is up and birds starting to yell about it. 6:52 AM Apr 4th
Starting to pace. Thankfully I amy just 1 shy of the last set. 6:56 AM Apr 4th
Getting down to the last of the 5th series. 7:34 AM Apr 4th
Will need a coffee again soon. But don't want the shakes just yet. 7:35 AM Apr 4th
Last of the 5th series done. Now onto the final four. But first, breakfast! 8:22 AM Apr 4th
Making myself a PBJ and I realized I was 'painting' the jelly onto the peanut butter. Weirdo. 8:28 AM Apr 4th
The final four are twenty minutes from being started. 8:38 AM Apr 4th
Last Boppity painting being started.....Now! 8:56 AM Apr 4th
Just finished with the Klown of War series. Now on to The Klown of Death. 9:37 AM Apr 4th
Hmmmm...Poured creamer into the coffee and it turned ochre. I wonder how long this has been happening? 9:46 AM Apr 4th
2 of me=1 halfwit 9:55 AM Apr 4th
Christ, I need a coffee! 10:26 AM Apr 4th
Finally got the access panel for Bloaty done. 10:50 AM Apr 4th
Starting the last Klown of Pestilence painting. 10:57 AM Apr 4th
Done. Now onto the last of the painting series in 20 minutes. 11:36 AM Apr 4th
Except for the curtain and hanging apparati, Bloaty is DONE!!! 11:55 AM Apr 4th
Done. 24 paintings in 24 hours. 12:45 PM Apr 4th
End of line... 12:46 PM Apr 4th