A new painting that is headed for my upcoming show , A Place to Stand, at the Principle Gallery , opening June 8. This is a 12″ by 36″ canvas that carries the title Almost Blue, a title taken from the great Elvis Costello song. I often talk about the color blue as being addictive, about how difficult it is [...]
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Almost Blue
Posted in Favorite Things, Influences, Music, Painting, Recent Paintings, Video, tagged Chet Baker, Diana Krall, Elvis Costello, Principle Gallery on May 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Amiel’s Journal Intime
Posted in Favorite Things, Influences, Quote, tagged Henri-Frederic Amiel, Journal Intime, Project Gutenberg, Quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson on April 11, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. **************** One of the great things about the cyberworld is the ability to find the work, either in image or words, of those people that might easily go unnoticed in the past. You can [...]
The Evolution of Stuart Davis
Posted in Favorite Things, Influences, tagged American Modernism, Armory Show, Ashcan School, Modernism, Picasso, Pop Art, Robert Henri, Stuart Davis, Tioga Pennsylvania, Van Gogh on April 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Many of us are familiar with the work of Stuart Davis (1892- 1964), the American Modernist whose paintings presaged the Pop Art of the 60′s. They were bold and colorful abstracted collages that use imagery from the landscape of the popular culture at the time they were created, creating works that immediately evoke a time. [...]
I’d Find a Way
Posted in Influences, Painting, tagged Motivation, Repost on April 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »
“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” -John Quincy Adams ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I don’t what made this pop into my head but I was thinking about a conversation from a few years back that I had with a friend who is also a painter. He has been an [...]
A Little Eyvind Earle
Posted in Favorite Things, Influences, tagged Disney, Eyvind Earle, Influences, The Complete Graphics of Eyvind Earle on March 18, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I recently picked up the second volume of The Complete Graphics of Eyvind Earle, a 9-pound behemoth of a book featuring the work of the artist who I have written about here once before. It’s an incredible book, full of spectacular imagery and pure color that I find both inspring and humbling. He had a [...]
Rockwell Kent in Greenland
Posted in Favorite Things, Influences, Quote, tagged Edward Hopper. Rockwell Kent, Greenland on March 15, 2012 | 1 Comment »
He draws earth as another might draw the exciting and desirable strong body of a man or woman. His earth is essentially a naked savage earth living out of doors, not so much a cruel and terrifying savage as a wild and free one. –Grant H. Code on the work of Rockwell Kent ************************************************** I’ve [...]
Steal Like an Artist
Posted in Influences, Neat Stuff, tagged Austin Kleon, Brain Pickings, Maria Popova, Steal Like An Artist on March 10, 2012 | 3 Comments »
My friend, Brian, recently recommended a website, Brain Pickings, from writer Maria Popova. It is self-described on the site as: … a human-powered discovery engine for interestingness, culling and curating cross-disciplinary curiosity-quenchers, and separating the signal from the noise to bring you things you didn’t know you were interested in until you are. It is a great place [...]
The Internal Prisons of Piranesi
Posted in Favorite Things, Influences, Neat Stuff, tagged Carceri d'invenzione, Giovanni Bauttista Piranesi, MC Escher on March 8, 2012 | 5 Comments »
I consider my landscapes to be internal, which is to say imaginary. Places that represent a place where I wish to be or at least have the feeling of it in my real world. Places that act as refuge from the sometime harshness of the real world. Giovanni Bauttista Piranesi had a much different sort of [...]
Still Seuss-y — A Replay
Posted in Favorite Things, Influences, tagged Dr. Seuss, The Lorax on March 6, 2012 | 3 Comments »
With the recent release of The Lorax, an animated film based on the environmentally centered Dr. Seuss book and the continued popularity of his books (I think there are 6 in the top 100 of the NY Times bestsellers list), I thought I would reblog this post from back in August of 2010. Yesterday’s post about [...]
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 [...]
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