December 9, 2019
Figurative Work
“If nothing else is left, one must scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.” – Nadezhda Mandelstam
March 15, 2015
So I’ve started working on a commission based on A Crane Called Frank. And I thought I would play with some of the oil mediums to see if they might be something I want to use in this new painting (which I’m calling Francine at the moment). I tried out Galkyd, Neo Megilp and Galkyd Gel. And in the process this small storm ensued.
And here is the beginning of Francine. I’m just building the background now. Chances are very little of this will be visible in the final painting, but we’ll see. I just need to put on a few coats of clear gesso to seal it really well and I will be ready to go.
Lastly, here are a couple of drawings from this week. One from a figure drawing class that I’m doing – no, she did not have an inordinately large head, I just messed up the scale – and a small drawing I did during the week while thinking about folded paper in preparation to begin Francine.
Nothing at all like Miró.
May 4, 2014
“Two and two do not make four. Only accountants think that. but that is not enough: a painting must make this clear; it must fertilize the imagination.”
– Miró, 1959
Just back from Vancouver and Seattle for a family vacation. In Seattle we had the chance to visit the Seattle Art Museum and their current exhibition “Miró: The Experience of Seeing” as well as other great artwork. And this painting has absolutely nothing to do with that.
“You can wake up now, the universe has ended.” – Jim Stark, Rebel Without a Cause, 1955
March 9, 2014
An assignment in the current painting class I’m taking – one I enjoyed in fact. I have to state up front that I didn’t actually draw the image, I transferred it onto the canvas from a photocopy of a photo of James Dean. But I did have fun playing with oil paint again. And the pervasive smell of linseed oil that still lingers. Below that is another little image resulting from a little playing with a new medium – Liquid Pencil. I quite like the text of the book page as a background and am trying to create something a little larger like that.