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 [...]
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Taking Advice
Posted in Painting, Recent Paintings, Technique/History, tagged Chuck Close, New Paintings on February 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Tiffany’s Magnolias
Posted in Favorite Things, Influences, Technique/History, tagged Brooklyn, Louis Comfort Tiffany on January 13, 2012 | 2 Comments »
In a post from a few days ago and several times before, I have mentioned the stained glass windows that came from the studio of Louis Comfort Tiffany in the early part of the 20th century. They have been a large influence on my work over the years, from their use of complex color harmonies to [...]
Discovery’s Door
Posted in Painting, Recent Paintings, Technique/History, tagged Louis Comfort Tiffany, New Paintings on January 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In the past year or so, I have done a series of paintings where I took out much of the color in my work, leaving behind sometimes monochromatic renderings of my compositions. But recently I have swung back to the deeper, richer colors that has long marked my work. I think this new painting is [...]
Early Piece, Early Voice
Posted in Biographical, Early Paintings, Influences, Technique/History, tagged Early Paintings on January 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I think I’ve mentioned here that there is some of my early work where my documentation is a bit sketchy. There is a handful of pieces of which I have no images, which bothers me a bit now. The rest of the work from that time is from iffy slides, photos and simple photocopies where the work [...]
The Ghost in Memory
Posted in Quote, Recent Paintings, Technique/History, tagged Henrik Ibsen, Recent Paintings on December 12, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea…. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light. –Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts Another newer painting, this one on paper and measuring about [...]
Archaeology: Rainbow’s End
Posted in Recent Paintings, Technique/History, tagged Archaeology on November 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I recently finished this new painting, an 18″ by 26″ piece on paper, that is the newest addition to my Archaeology series. Titled Archaeology: Rainbow’s End, this painting features the subterranean debris field that marks this series including some of the recurring icons that show up in most, or at least many, of the pieces in [...]
A Shift
Posted in Recent Paintings, Technique/History on November 19, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Sometimes my own view of a piece will shift over time. Sometimes I might see something in the work that was not the focus of my attention when I was painting, something that gives me deeper appreciation of the piece. Or it might work in the reverse, where I lose sight of that thing in [...]
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