This is a small piece that I used here last year in a blogpost featuring Richard Thompson’s song Shoot Out the Lights. I showed this piece but didn’t say anything about it which I think was an oversight because it is one of my personal favorites from this particular series. It’s called Two Sides and is [...]
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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 | 3 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 [...]
A Little More Progress
Posted in Painting, Recent Paintings, Technique/History, tagged Canvas, Obsessionism, Painting, technique on February 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I thought I would show a bit more of the large canvas I’m working on at the moment. As I’ve described in previous posts, it’s a 54″ tall by 84″ wide canvas that has been biding its time for nearly 10 months in my studio, waiting for me to finally give it some life. Well, [...]
Progress
Posted in Painting, Recent Paintings, Technique/History, tagged red oxide paint, rightness, sheer size, The Wizard of Oz, Wizard of Oz on February 9, 2012 | 7 Comments »
I debated over showing the progress of the large painting on which I am currently working. I know that I have done it it the past , especially with this style of work, but I almost felt like I wanted to keep this one more guarded. It feels kind of like pulling the curtain back on [...]
Taking Advice
Posted in Painting, Recent Paintings, Technique/History, tagged Chuck Close, New Paintings on February 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes you find yourself out little bits of advice to other people, never realizing the irony behind the act. Take yesterday’s post, where I passed on some advice from Chuck Close about getting to work and not waiting for inspiration. Well, after reading what I had read yesterday morning, I looked across the studio at a large canvas [...]
Where the Road Ends
Posted in Painting, Quote, Recent Paintings, tagged Buddha, Painting, Red Tree, Watts Fine Arts on February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. —Buddha This is a new painting that recently went to Watts Fine Arts in Zionsville, outside of Indianapolis. It’s a large canvas, 20″ tall by 60″ wide, that is called Where the Road Ends. [...]
Travel Days
Posted in Painting, Recent Paintings, tagged Indianapolis, Watts Fine Art on January 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I’m on the road for the next couple of days so check back later for the next post here. I’m heading out to the Indianapolis area where I’m delivering a new group of work to Watts Fine Art, a gallery located in Zionsville, a suburb of Indy. I’m excited to visit this gallery and to [...]
A Strange & Special Air
Posted in Painting, Quote, Recent Paintings, tagged Leonard Bernstein, New Paintings on January 18, 2012 | 2 Comments »
“Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world – the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.” —Leonard Bernstein ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I came across this quote [...]
