Soon I will host my MFA exhibition, and I have to admit there is a certain amount of anxiety built up around this situation. However, hasn't this all been building to this point. Soon I will have done what C.S. does and Christopher will never hold pesidence again. The bearer of Crist will be the bearer of the new. Novus = new, and I have spent the last 3 months pouring over what might be new. C.S. Novus will move beyond that which has been planned. I will be to the world the harbinger of the new! Novus Arts forever!!!!
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Saturday, June 1, 2013
I keep forgetting about you my poor blog spot.
I have been busy laying paint and I almost had forgotten about you. Here is a small offering from my studio. And can be seen in person on July 8-20 at Berkeley JFKU Gallery.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Assemblage fodder.
A sneak peak into the process. I paint an acrylic paste up in an hour or so. Let dry then cut appart and re assemble. Think I'll make another.
Saturday, May 11, 2013
So ambitious
3'x10' statement that I plan to finish for my exhibition. Just the rough beginnings but it is exciting me all the same, I myself can't wait to see how this one plays out!
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Burning the midnight oil
Up late cause that's when I like to do this shit, the really amazing stuff happens after 3 a.m. when all inhibitions have gone the way of fatigue.
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Introducing C.S. II
Last night my son and I did a collaboration and here are the results. I am stunned by this. Lil guy really captured something and it is virtually impossible to discern who drew which part. I love it!!
Thursday, April 25, 2013
3:30 a.m.
It is such a strange head space that develops for me between 3-4 a.m. while painting. I am tired and yet I feel driven to press on. So strange. Wasn't even sleepy, till I realized the time. Its majick hour....
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Doing my thing.
Its so hard to remember all this stuff, did I blog that or facebook this, maybe a random tweet. I dunno what I'm doing technologically, but give me some paint and I'll do my thing.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Friday, April 12, 2013
Long gone and forgotten
Tonight looking at my "old" work hanging about the house I realize I don't really remember doing any of it. Is so meaningful, and I know the impetuous behind it. The actual doing has been let go. I wonder am I alone? Or do people forget what they have done, where they have been only to retain a glimmer of the feeling that spawned it!
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
I was going to...
I was going to blog this, I was going to blog that, but I didn't I got away from the format that works for me. That format being mobile, that's right on my lil trusty phone. So I will do my best to be more consistent as we chronicle the last 3 months of grad school preparing for the big show in July. Sneek peek attached.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Fear of creating
" But we're afraid of creating something on our own, the basic thing is knowing that in the end truth does not exist. Only honesty exists" -Yves Klein
Thursday, February 14, 2013
When Vision meets technical ineptitude
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
What is in a name
It morphed into the amalgamation of my first and Last name C.S. and threw in the Novus cause thats what I wished to remain "new" never resting on what I had done. Only looking at the now what I'm about to do shyt. An attempt to make sure that I did what I ment and needed to be "new" fresh and cutting edge, at all times!
I spend some time tonight doing that most of egotistical activities as googling all of my incarnations to find out what my placement in the google stratusphere looked like. (like you have never done this)
What I found out much to my surprise is that I have branded in the purest sense of the word, "branded" myself C.S.Novus. I am him. Whomever that is, I am that guy! Under my given name sure there are articles and musings some me some not, but somewhere in the last 8 years I have become the one the only C.S. Novus...Sure there are many Chris Schelling in this world we all share a name, but there is only only one C.S.Novus! I'll be damned if it didn't strike me like a bolt that I had done something! I'm not just another chris schelling floating around in the world, I AM C.S. Novus the one the only the enigmatic artist, that is me! Good for me for being crazy and bold and doing something short sighted that in this day of self recognition I might stand up and say hey, that is me that C.s. Novus with a facebook, that C.S.Novus with a twitter, soundcloud, etc. that is me and shit I'm proud of it.
Damn Happy to be C.S!
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Fallow periods
In my cycle as an artist I have endured many of what I call fallow periods. In my most recent period, think I made 2 what I'll call major works over the period of about a year and a half. Today I set out to deep clean my art spaces in preparation for a full-time full on blitz of creativity. I decided I had to fix the mess before I could make it deeper. In my excavation of my studio space I am running into dozens of small sketches and scriblings. I think I now have to rethink what I thought of a fallow. Perhaps its more like a gestation period, where i laid in contemplation and self preservation. Feels good to know that even in the dark night of the soul the little flame keeps burning, waiting to be fuled and SHINE.
Friday, February 8, 2013
After the roar!
Slowly sinking in
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Phone blogging!
It turns out I hate sitting down at a computer and writing a "blog". However, I love the smart phone and the mobile blog so.... Welcome to my mobile blog. Short, sweet, too the point. Paint on paper???
Monday, January 28, 2013
Shall we paint??
Okay, admittedly I am not a water colorist. But I was hoping the whomping Arches block that I have secretly coveted but never owned until today will fill the gap between abilities and materials. So here is to making something interesting.
"It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas."
Paul Cezanne
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Pick 3 words from a hat and make smething.
Its funny how people look at you like a hobo in the fancy Berkley Bowl parking lot when you are dressed in your raggedy painting clothes drumming on yourself as you stroll by. I was just on a walk meditating on Isolated-unhappiness, in this case not so unhappy.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
I'm not much of a blogger
C.S.