The drawing on paper for a soft ground etching; it's Ben in New Orleans. I'm having trouble escaping my dreams. It's as if all the unremembered or missed visitations are making up for lost time these days, arriving one upon the other, ceaselessly. It's a haunting, an undertow from which I feel I can barely… Continue reading An undertow and soft ground
My graphite/oil on wood panel (the Leaving) has been selected for inclusion in “Where the Heart is,” an exhibition showing how artists explore the concept of HOME, whether real or imagined, transitional or stable, present or past, near or far. Brooklyn Artists’ Gym Opening reception Saturday Feb 26, 2011. On view through March 7, 2011.
early phase graphite on wood panel to be finished with oils. I awoke this morning with the Tarpeian Rock visiting a doomed mantra across my semi-conscious brain– nothing else attached to it; just a piece of lost luggage leftover from all my reading about Rome. And then, of all things, the cream for the coffee… Continue reading Man about a horse
work in progress: graphite and oils on wood cigar box I completed the graphite work and began painting oil glazes on this piece last night. In the background can be seen some of the other items in my collection of panels and pieces for future projects. (The one just next the cigar box is one… Continue reading Work in progress: the bathers
The first of several bathers– a new work in a cigar box that was apparently, unintentionally designed to be the world's perfect mini-diptych in the most traditional sense; 1 : a 2-leaved hinged tablet folding together to protect writing on its waxed surfaces 2 : a picture or series of pictures (as an altarpiece) painted… Continue reading The first of the bathers
Work in progress; pencil stage. Executed on wood panel drawer, approx. 16" x 32". (Seen with some other collected antique items in my studio) The wood panel/drawer was found at an antiques shop up in Pennsylvania, not far from the Delaware River, in which location acts as the border between New York and Pennsylvania. Closer… Continue reading A new work
Yes. After toiling with a different (much more interesting!) drawing last evening, this i what came of my work: an angry bunny.
Ninth day of the new year, but it still feels like maybe only the third to me. Wrestling with thoughts when, perhaps, I shouldn't be thinking so much. S i m p l i f y . Rob Cham wisely sums up the conundrum. Studio practice. An artists' phrase, but the same idea applies to… Continue reading When in doubt, keep things simple
First Art Night of 2011! Complete disclosure after the jump. Click the image to see both studies. Pencil allows and invites more sensuous detail than marker, that's for sure. But the simplicity of the marker and ink is also nice. Thus the reason for multiple studies, a discipline I've often shied away from. Fact is,… Continue reading Two studies of lamps
01.04.11 The Box On the slip of paper pulled from the box tells is written Write a phrase or sentence– then illustrate it. Birds fall from the heavens– again–
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