Paint & Words

Thursday, July 30, 2015

Scraping Back The Line

You can scrape back the painted line between figure & landscape. The forms may be simultaneously blurred & strengthened by pulling color through color.

When you want to leave behind composition as a problem to be solved, it helps to think of color, form & surface as elements of centrality.

Pynchon was writing about a specific era, but he could have been describing a landscape or a figure as "...this little parenthesis of light."

Ideas like these get in the way of painting & are useful in that way.

"D's Back" - mixed media on paper, 8 1/2" X 5 1/2"

"Fields & Hills" - oil on canvas, 18" X 18

"Backyard Table" - oil on canvas, 14" X 11"

"Lagoon-Figure Study" - mixed media on paper, 12" X 9"

"Painted Fields" - oil on canvas, 12" X 12"

"Hillside Road" - oil on canvas , 8" X 8"

"Arranging Her Hair" - mixed media on paper, 12" X 9"

"Woman With A Cup"- mixed media on paper, 8 1/2" X 5 1/2"

"Farming Lavender"- oil on canvas, 12" X 16"

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

"Garden Right" - acrylic on paper, 12" X 9"

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

"Blue Hills" - oil on wood, 12" X 12"

"Leaning Back"- acrylic on paper, 12" X 9"

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

"Beach Walkway"-oil on canvas, 18" X 18"

"Lagoon Figure"-oil on canvas, 20" X 16"

"Left Thought"-mixed media on paper, 12" X 9"

Monday, June 29, 2015

Working in a sketchbook is a continuing practice for me. The majority of the drawings presented here were done in minutes, with little or no revision. All of them were done on the spot. Structuring the two mixed-media landscapes did take more time & effort; even so, the intent was the same. Whether I was drawing linear figures or shadows on hills, the aim was to shape the form from the motion.

"Beach Player"- colored pencil on paper, 8 1/2" X 5 1/2"

"Call From The Beach"- colored pencil on paper, 8 1/2" X 5 1/2"

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

"Family"- colored pencil on paper, 8 1/2" X 5 1/2"

"Boy With A Hat"-mixed media on paper, 8 1/2" X 5 1/2"

"Child In Blue"-colored pencil on paper, 8 1/2" X 5 1/2"

Monday, June 1, 2015

From May-June

You can paint in parallel with your life or in spite of it. Happy or lost, every day you pick up the brush. The results vary--as you can see here--& spring turns into summer.

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"Figure & Umbrella"-oil on canvas, 14" X 12"

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

"After The Accident"-oil on canvas, 11" X 14"

"Spring Pose"-mixed media on paper, 12" X 9"

"Red Slacks"-oil on wood, 12" X 12"

"Figure In A White Blouse"-mixed media on paper, 12" X 9"

"East From Scaroni Road"-oil on canvas, 18" X 18"

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Interrupting A Line

In painting & physics, there's no pure recording. Like it or not, we're in everything we do. This holds true for landscape painting just as much as for geometric abstraction. Whether you're painting skin or sky, whatever you do to interrupt a line only serves to continues it.

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

"Back-Cross"-acrylic on paper, 18' X 13"

"Extended Pose"-acrylic on paper, 18" X 12"


"Warm-Weather Pose"-mixed media on paper, 12" X 9"

"Where She Travels"- acrylic on canvas, 18" X 14"

"Folded Hands"-acrylic on paper, 15" X 13"

"Back-Twist"-mixed media on paper, 10" X 7"

"Figure In A Curved Chair"-acrylic on paper, 15" X 13"

"Left In Thought"-acrylic on paper, 20" X 15"

"Coast Road South (Blue)"-acrylic on canvas, 12" X 12"

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Surface

I finally figured out that the surface is where the depth is. In spite of the variety of approaches, the concern with surface quality threads through all these images.