Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Certain Days



So many of these figures are sitting & seeing, their minds are working in parallel with their sight. They're doing much the same thing I'm doing as I draw or paint them. They vary in the way all self-portraits vary. A respectful distance turns out to be very close indeed.

"Figure With Datura"- mixed media on paper, 12" X 9"




We often see by means of a grid. Our vision is caught, not by the wires in the net, but by the openings.



"Dark Tree"- acrylic on paper, 10 1/2" X 9 1/2"



Gestural art make it clear that there's an emotional proportion as well as an anatomical one. There is also an emotional foreshortening.



"Gardener"- mixed media on paper, 8 1/2" X 5 1/2"




My favorite narrative paintings are mostly landscapes.


"2 Trees"- acrylic on paper, 13" X 9"




Drawing doesn't register line or mark, it shows two forms of light, the fragmentary & the interior--& also the shadows that serve them.


"Messaging"- mixed media on paper, 12" X 9"




Every form of art seems to me to be a form of listening for music.


"Garden Turn"-acrylic paper, 13" X 9"



Sometimes in a face,  myths of continuity & discontinuity meet.


Foot Rest"-acrylic on paper, 12" X 9"





The only thing that effectively changes the scale of an image is intimacy.


"Striped Skirt" -mixed media on paper, 8 1/2" X 5 1/2"



Certain days are the ones we remember. We're made of them, because we've made something out of them. Paintings are certain days.

"Water Garden 3" - oil on canvas, 60" X 48"