reading a book on richard diebenkorn…i can’t believe i’ve passed him up all these years…since i’ve been looking at art books during my down time at school this year i’ve been reintroduced to a myriad of painters i’ve passed up in the past…diebenkorn, famous for his abstract ocean park series, also did extrodinary still lifes [...]
Archive > October 2009
rock and roll and housecleaning…
i need rock and roll to clean house…rock and roll makes everything better…classic rock…not the stuff that passes for it nowadays…old time stuff…
i am looking at the paintings i have and deciding which ones will go in the garbage…and, last week i had to move the computer table since the plug in blew out it [...]
new appreciation for old favs
i must confess that i previously overlooked impressionism as being fanciful, beautiful, and not worth it’s weight in paint…all that has changed…i was thoroughly entranced with the german expressionists…i still love them…there’s something primal about their work, but i have a new found appreciation for impressionists and pre-impressionists…i am working on kim’s painting and the [...]
yum yum…
spent the afternoon working on a painting for kim of her and her cat…i love how it’s turning out…i’m working in impasto (thick) oils…it’s very addicting…and i find that it is easier for me to do than flat painting where i have to blend with a brush…knife painting kicks ass…
kimmy and felix painting…
so now i’m [...]
attention please…
well, i’ve been perusing the art supply catalogs…going to make an order to daniel smith in november…gonna order gesso, palette knives, and oil painting medium…also i’m gonna splurge on some pastels and oil pastels…it’s always fun to get a big box of art goodies…feels like christmas…
i have an idea for a series of paintings, and [...]
pics!!!
here are some pics of my latest works…hope they show good enough…this one is actually a scan of my head which i plan to paint at some point…had fun doing these…
these are 2 views of the same figure…worked on it for 6 days, painting, drawing, washing over it and starting all over again…
these two are [...]
working it out…
major breakthrough in figure drawing…i managed somehow to whip out a painting in one hour…i was much more physical with this one, and i had to sit down and take a break after doing it…i actually worked up a sweat! i got the word of approval from susan, and then promptly set about overworking it…but [...]
