Showing posts with label Paintings 2010. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paintings 2010. Show all posts

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010




These photos were taken on Monday, Nov. 29. Kind of a weird figurative work, eh (photo #2)? I don't know where that is coming from. A lot of yellows, pinks & oranges! A Saint Stephen theme, except that this guy is being shot by a huge flowery heart object. You could say it's an self-portrait abstraction if you wanted to do that. It is still "in process" though; I don't know exactly where it's going. I'm trying to avoid overworking it and yet it needs SOMETHING. The figure got darkened today.

The vertical light blue diptych (photo #3) is finished now. It's a big tornado-y form with an antler crown of sorts. It kind of relates to a mega dream I had almost 2 years ago. Both paintings deal with personal transformation. Because that's what's going on these days, spiritually.

And the little 9 x 12 (photo #1) is just a goofball painting with a lot of detail. It's weird to paint in such brilliant yellow. It has changed quite a bit and is "rounding the bend" towards completion after today... Sometimes it's nice to have a painting that is so small that it can be handled easily & painted differently than the larger works.

Monday, November 22, 2010

Nov. 22, 2010


Damn; an accident in the studio! A strip of wood to which held 3 triptychs became unattached from the wall sometime over the weekend. One painting was torn/scratched, one was scratched (I'd just varnished it on Thursday), one was smudged and has to be touched up (image at left). It could've been A LOT worse but, still, it is freaky to walk in the door and slowly figure out what has happened. I'd rather be painting, eh?

Friday, November 19, 2010

Nov. 19, 2010


This is a painting done just after the previous one (Nov. 18). Same concept. The challenge of painting something symmetrical, as well as straight horizontal lines. In retrospect, I think of the Chicago painter Roger Brown.