Thought today deserved a lighter touch. As I’ve said here, I’ve always been a big fan of the movies, enjoying most aspects of the crafting of them from their direction to the cinematography of the films to the acting that takes place. One aspect that I’ve always enjoyed is the movie trailer, a condensed version of the [...]
Archive for February, 2012
A Little Silliness
Posted in At the Movies, Neat Stuff, tagged George Clooney, Jimmy Kimmel, Matt Damon, Meryl Streep, Movie Trailers, Movie: The Movie, Movies, Oscars, Tom Hanks on February 29, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Snapshot
Posted in Favorite Things, Influences, tagged George Hendrik Breitner, Kodak, Phillips Collection, Photography, Post-Impressionists, Washington DC on February 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
There’s an exhibition currently hanging at one of my favorite museums, the extremely comfortable Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, called Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard. It bascially shows how the advent of personal photography in the late 1800′s, with the invention of the Kodak handheld camera, changed how many artists worked. The camera [...]
One Thing Leads to Another
Posted in Influences, Painting, Recent Paintings, Technique/History, tagged Chuck Close, Inspiration, internal landscape, Landscape, New Paintings on February 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Not too long ago, I displayed a Chuck Close quote where he said that work is inspiration in itself, that by simply steadfastly doing what you do will open up creative avenues to follow. I frimly believe that and have experienced it on many occasions including just this past week. As I have been documenting, I am [...]
Temples of Knowledge
Posted in Favorite Things, Photography, tagged Ahmet Ertug, Architecture, Bookshelf Porn, Istanbul, Libraries on February 25, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Ahmet Ertug is an Istanbul based photographer who began his career as an architect. This interest in architecture has led him to a renowned career photographing the great buildings of the world. He works in a very large format that produces huge fine prints that are spectacular. He shoots the interiors of these buildings in natural [...]
Very Cool!
Posted in Neat Stuff, tagged Corning, Dave Higgins, Marquetry, Senior Citizens, USS Constitution, wood marquetry on February 23, 2012 | 4 Comments »
I came into the studio this morning and there was an interesting e-mail from Dave Higgins, a friend and one of my favorite artists whose work has been featured here on the blog a number of times. He said he visited a Corning senior center where they hold a weekly session to learn and practice [...]
Jim Nutt’s Obsessive Portrait
Posted in Favorite Things, Painting, tagged Chicago Imagists, Jim Nutt, Pop Art, Roger Brown, Surrealism on February 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I wrote last week about the work of the Chicago-based artist Roger Brown, who was part of the Chicago Imagists which were a group of artists who were inspired by the pop imagery of comic books as well as surrealism. Another artist who was in this circle was Jim Nutt, born in 1938 in Massachusetts and educated [...]
Weighing It
Posted in Painting, Recent Paintings, Technique/History, tagged Composition, internal landscape, Recent Painting, technique on February 21, 2012 | 4 Comments »
In my last post, I wrote about how I was going over the large canvas on which I am currently at work, weighing the different elements against one another as I try to create balance in the composition. It’s a large canvas, 54″ by 84″, and there is so much more space to oversee, making sure [...]
In the Early Morning
Posted in Painting, Recent Paintings, Technique/History, tagged Blue, Obsessionism, Recent Paintings, technique on February 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I’m in the final stages of finishing the large canvas that I’ve been documenting here, spending a lot of time weighing the weight of the colors and forms and adding a bit here and there to bring it into balance. It’s slow work and sometimes I have to just get away from it to clear my head. I [...]
Batter Up!
Posted in Favorite Things, tagged Babe Ruth, Banzai Babe Ruth, baseball, Moe Berg, Robert K. Fitts on February 17, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Oh, it’s that time of the year once more. Pitchers and catchers reporting to warm southern sites. The first tentative soft toss of the ball and the swing of the bat. Spring training is starting and for diehard baseball fans it is the true beginning of the year, a time when the disappointments of last year [...]
