Tuesday, July 30, 2019

“We do not see things as they are. 
  We see them as we are.”   — The Talmud
Contiguous Forty-Eight



(Acrylic on canvas sheet – 12x12)

Contiguous Forty-Eight gets its name from the underpainting connecting all the elipses. And of course there are 48 of them. Like the lower 48 states. We are all connected. More similar than not. Cut from the same cloth...

The diagonal underpainting echos my earlier Veil Squares, only the color isn't as saturated and is much more loosely rendered giving the work a fresh, energetic appearance that looks like its in a state of becoming. 

Namaste. 

Monday, July 29, 2019

80 Days Around the World


(Acrylic on canvas sheet – 12x12)

It has been awhile since my last abstract. A continuation of the Veil Series. This time using a more rounded motif. This merges my love of Roy Lichtenstein's Ben Day dots and the colorfield painters. This piece is only 12x12, but I envision it in a much larger format, and hope to get to work on more soon... (The canvas sheets I use are a light weight, medium textured acrylic primed canvas, not paper, made by Fredrix and comes as a Canvas Pad, which I cut into the square format.) I almost always use the square format for my abstracts. In college I noticed American impressionist Childe Hassam used square canvases a lot, which is unusual for a landscape painted of that era, I admired his work and began using that configuration more in my compositions.

Friday, July 12, 2019

Auf Wiedersehen Beetle




Sadly, yesterday, after 81 years, the Volkswagen Beetle, "the People's Car", passed into history as the last one rolled off the assembly line at Puebla, Mexico. Over 21 million of the Type 1 above were produced, surpassing Henry Ford's Model T, in 1972, as the most produced vehicle ever. Which does not include the two iterations of the New Beetle. Although I've only owned a 65 Bus and a 79 Rabbit, I've had many adventures in friend's Bugs. I'm sad to see them go, but I still get to see one almost  every day. In our communal garage, my German neighbor still has a rare orange 73 with an automatic transmission which she bought new, parked next to my car. 
So long old friends, it won't be the same without you...

Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Friday, July 5, 2019

Sidewalk Yin Yang

Acrylic on Canvas board – 7x5 – CLICK HERE TO BID – Starting at $100

I was out for my morning constitution the day after a strong thunder boomer rolled through. My path was strewn in places with a multitude of leaves. These two in particular caught my eye.

Monday, July 1, 2019

Interior with Landscape

( Acrylic on Canvas board – 8x8 – CLICK HERE TO BID – Starting at $150 )

Where I'm house sitting they have a beautiful minimalist landscape painting (artist unknown) sitting on a credenza, leaning against the wall. So I decided to do an interior 'plein air still life' of the scene viewed from the dinning room table. Without the lamp's shadow on the painting it almost feels like you're looking out a window at a rural countryside with a horizon rising up to meet a pale pink sky. Fortunately Wallace, the inquisitive kitty, allowed me a few unimpeded moments to complete the piece.