Tuesday, August 28, 2018

In Cahoots

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I didn't come up with the title for this one until I sat with it for a while. As I heard the story,  the root word 'cahute', is French for a small cabin or hut. The phrase was originally referring to multiple French-Canadian trappers living together in the same small space. By habitating in such close quarters they would of necessity have to be of like mind, hence the term: In cahoots.  You can almost hear the Canadian inflection when you say the words! Ya sure, in cahoots those.

Saturday, August 25, 2018

Ruby & friends


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A ruby red grapefruit is joined by three friends, cherries, from the previous painting. Rather than the cad red light background behind the grapefruit, which would be lost showing thru the the orange tones, I took a page from the Impressionists playbook and used a complementary or opposite color for its underpainting. In this case the beautiful Cobalt Blue, which is also used in the shadows.

Thursday, August 23, 2018

Cinq Cerises


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Welcome to my new blog! My inaugural post is fresh off the vine! And organic too. My latest work Cinq Cerises, (Five Cherries en Francais), 6x6 inches, acrylic in 1/8" board, is an acrylic painting style I've done for many years.  Unlike my landscapes in oil, this work is more line oriented and much higher key in color. I double prime the board to get a nice brushy texture and do an underpainting of Ivory Black and Cad Red Light before  brushing layers of color on top of that, which allows the underpainting to shine through and gives the painting a nice  warm glow. One of my early galleries liked my ink resist pieces. I liked that technique too, but it's very hard to control the final result. So, I instead started painting on black gesso and the works have evolved into what you see here.  ​I hope you like it...