Besides finishing The Call, I recently worked on the paintings in this photo. Today’s session was the second painting session for the one on the right, Heated Discussion (the drawing took several sessions). The painting in the upper-left, Explain (or maybe just Plain–I haven’t decided) is almost done. I am hoping that one more session will…
Month: June 2014
Paintings, Shop Talk, Studio Corner, Tips and Studies, Uncategorized
Study: finishing The Call
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•I haven’t been to the Cleveland Museum of Art in several weeks. After visiting the Met last Friday, I thought I might forgo my weekly visits to the Cleveland museum for awhile. Although Cleveland is a fine museum, it’s not the Met. But here it is, a mere week later and I am hot to visit the museum again. So I am going later today. I also plan a trip to the Met in three weeks.
I came across an amusing article in the infrequently read (for me) online mag Vulture called Zombies on the Walls. It decries the flood of copy-cat abstraction drowning the market, calling the the trend M.F.A. Abstraction among other less polite things. Give it a read.
Art Museums, Artists, Paintings
Visit to the Met
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•Paintings, Shop Talk, Studio Corner
In the studio 6/15/2104
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•My son and I are flying to Trenton this evening where my daughter will join us. We’re taking the train to Manhattan tomorrow (I met their mother on a train from Manhattan) to visit galleries and go to the Met. We’ll be back home to the studio on Saturday. Frontier Airlines has a great deal on tickets from Cleveland to Trenton.
Paintings, Shop Talk, Studio Corner
Starting a new painting
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•Here is the beginning of a new painting. After fixing the pencil drawing with ink, I covered the surface with broad color areas. The goal of this initial layer is to cover the entire surface with local colors. The drawing took several days but I did the laying-in in a single day. Next, I’ll rework the entire surface strengthening…