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Most people think of soil as a brown decaying place, but actually it should be full of life! I read recently a whole chapter on soil life in a book called Regenesis, which prompted my thoughts on this subject, which led to this painting.
I recommend playing with charcoal: vine, compressed, and pencil, to get a range of marks and values. Maybe try it in your sketchbook?
I’m in this lovely New Haven Paint and Clay show at the Guilford Art Center Gallery in Connecticut. It will be up until June 20, if you’d like to visit,
I love the exuberance and cheer of this piece. I made this for the PSME Monthly challenge for May to paint “a bouquet of flowers.”
I’m prepping to tackle my 48″x48″ boards outside this summer! The weather is finally conducive!
Don’t you love a road trip? I’ve been on many! Here is a abstract painting of one.
You long time blog readers know I adore Creative Arts Camp on the shores of Long Lake in Maine. I’ve gone consecutively every end of August for 19 years…
When you make a mark that doesn’t look right, every instinct says fix it. Wipe it off. Paint over it. Get it right.
What do we need more of these days? Moral courage. So I decided to paint it.
These shows tend to be highly representational, but I doggedly keep submitting abstraction. My work sticks out as a bit alien, painting ideas instead of things, but I hope to make room for others to be more adventurous and creative.
I have long appreciated Hans Hofmann’s work as both an artist and an influential teacher to an early generation of abstractionists.
I am delighted to report that since I have just gotten my fifth painting juried into the elite IAPS Pastel World Show, I will now receive “Master Pastellist” status.
This painting is of early spring in Huntington, in a different color way that makes it look like out of a fairy tale.
The title of this conceptual painting is a quote from a snippet I like from the King James version of the Bible in I Peter 5:10. Don’t we all want that?
I’ve been brewing and marinating on this idea since the fall when I did my painting titled “Bracken” (see here), and I finally took the time to do it. I love the result, with its overall complexity, intense color, and the strong swirling design of the pods.
I’m pleased to be in this juried show with Connecticut women, and that they used my image (shown first below) as their promotion for their opening reception, which was last Saturday.
I like Peter Joyce’s artwork, even though it has less value contract than I prefer. He makes me want to use more white tones in my paintings, which I definitely don’t usually gravitate to.