cleaning the studio...

...and other adventures in art

talisman

I don’t normally engage in magical thinking, but I do believe in the power of art. I needed a talisman, for personal reasons, so I edited my two recent large landscape drawings to add doors to the buildings. I felt that I need an entrance to that stark world....

faces

In my last blog post, I hinted that I might paint some faces, and I have indeed done so.  I’m not so interested in painting faces on the large-scale figure paintings because a face grabs all the attention. But I am certainly interested in faces, so here’s...

the weight of art history

…weighting the edges of a stack of paintings with art books. The danger in this method is that I get distracted with the books, and then I get lost in the books.  And I certainly feel the weight of all that history!

number twelve

With Open Studios a month away, this is probably the last of the big paintings that I will complete for the time being.  This painting went through the most drastic changes of any of this series. It hung on my wall for several months in a very different iteration,...

contemplate this

I now have these twelve of large-scale paintings, all completed over the last year.  They all are acrylic/mixed-media on unstretched canvas, approximately 6’x9′. Falling and Fallen, acrylic/mixed-media on unstretched canvas (hung directly on wall with...

size matters

I have many thoughts about my current series of large-scale paintings, but I’m going to limit this post to the topic of mark-making as it relates to scale. I started thinking about this perhaps a year ago, while I was working with small encaustics but...