Monday, November 21, 2016

Recent Pieces





A painting is made every day, and they all relate back to this place. I have to keep the process as fresh as possible, so the processes are constantly mixed....a piece done on location, a collage with paint on top in studio, a piece from memory and/or imagination, a piece from on site diagrams. I go out every day; sometimes it's to find a location to paint...but sometimes it's just to go out.....the painting comes after...

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Saturday, November 12, 2016

Paintings in Response to the Presidential Election...



 
...all (sold)...
...each of these was done in response to the US election. The most optimistic one was done the day of the election, before any results were in. Can you tell which one that is?
 

Monday, November 7, 2016

On Location, November 6









November Valley
 ...so mild for November, and perfectly still.....I barely had to spray my paints at all. I'm just a short trek away from my car. There is a beautiful service path next to a mature forest....I'm just on the edge of it here, and completely sheltered on 3 sides, with this grand view to the east...

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Wednesday, November 2, 2016

High


 
There's a certain kind of playfulness I've learned to respect, and court. It's best to stumble about, humming, poking your nose into interesting places....
 
...and it can be so contradictory, because while you have to learn, and have models of excellence to guide you at times, you can't Aim for that model....there is simply not enough adventure in that....it's about way more than learning skill....you have to find some useful guiding principles underneath everything....
 
I take much guidance from the elements and principles of art....and I always need those in any specific analysis.....but all that is a given and relatively easy for me to deal with these days. I can count on my ability to analyze and come up with solutions in each case. But beyond that, I look for an ease, a very simple movement from one thing to the next, a kind of absentness in myself, a lack of self-consciousness, that lets the thing made continually surprise me.
 
...there are very many things that can get in the way of this.....and they can be slippery, hard to nail down...but I try to watch for them....
 
....the picture is a relationship of elements....an arrangement of things coming together. There Always is a way for the things in this picture to come together....easily. The picture doesn't have to look any particular way...but it has to click together. While there should be craft....there should be no artifice. There's nothing to show off...all the pieces have to fit together.....or none of them fit...