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 [...]
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Weighing It
Posted in Painting, Recent Paintings, Technique/History, tagged Composition, internal landscape, Recent Painting, technique on February 21, 2012 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Coming Closer
Posted in Recent Paintings, Technique/History, tagged internal landscape, Landscape, Painting, Recent Painting, technique on February 16, 2012 | 6 Comments »
I’ve been documenting the progress that has been made over the past two weeks on a large canvas on which I’ve been been working. It’s been a roller coaster of emotion for me as I’ve been working on the 54″ high by 84″ wide painting. Sometimes I am completely satisfied, thrilled with what is unfurling before [...]
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 [...]
On a Cellular Level
Posted in Recent Paintings, Technique/History, tagged Multiples, New Paintings on February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve shown pieces with multiple panels and images here in the past and they often are very regimented, with each panel measured and uniform in size. There is sense of order in these paintings. But I’ve been doing a few multiple pieces lately that are less precise, with individual panels that bulge and expand in a [...]
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 [...]
The Unfortunate Rake
Posted in Recent Paintings, Technique/History, Video, tagged St. James Infirmary Blues, The Unfortunate Rake, Van Morrison on January 24, 2012 | 2 Comments »
This painting took a long time to emerge. I started with just a large block of color, originally feeling that there was a distant, stark landscape in it. But it never felt completely right and I let it sit for many months, occasionally picking it up and trying to decipher what it might hold. But [...]
The First?
Posted in Influences, Neat Stuff, Technique/History, tagged Asher Durand, Carolyn Bennett, Catskill Mountain Foundation, Catskills, Greene County, Levi L. Hill, Luminous Lint on January 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I was rummaging around in one of my favorite sites, Luminous Lint, looking for something that would somehow sum up the world of Kodak and Kodachrome film on this day when they file for bankruptcy, the end of an era. As I flipped through the photos this image caught my eye. There was a blaze of green that lit [...]
Tangled Up In Blue
Posted in Favorite Things, Music, Painting, Recent Paintings, Technique/History, Video, tagged Bob Dylan, New Paintings on January 14, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been pretty busy in the studio lately. That’s not unusual at this point of the year because it is when I’m gearing up for upcoming exhibitions but in past years this is when I have often felt a bit blocked and far removed from the point where I wanted my work to be . But thus far this [...]
