This painting is still raggedy; some parts, such as the hair, are barely started. The thing I’m not happy with is the title: Phone Call on Main Street. It’s not so much a title as a description. I don’t like the raised edges that can occur where two carefully-painted areas meet. Beneath the bench, you…
Month: August 2016
Paintings, Shop Talk, Studio Corner, Uncategorized
In the studio 8/27/16
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•Paintings, Shop Talk, Studio Corner, Uncategorized
In the studio 8/21/16
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•Today, I went back to the paintings in the Playhouse Square series. I spent a day or two working on other paintings and the drawing for a new painting (not in the series). I don’t experiment much anymore with mediums or processes. I tried a lot of different things before arriving where I am now, and…
Paintings, Shop Talk, Studio Corner, Vermilion, OH
In the studio 8/20/16
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•It’s curious how problems can disappear. Sometimes when I take up a painting that I struggled with, the solution is blindingly obvious. How was it that I struggled? Today was like that with Victory Park I. I had struggled with some passages but today everything fell into place. I had a healing brush; everything was…