This is a study for a larger drawing that will ideally combine what I like about the Scooters Series and the pedestrian quickies from my sketchbook. This one’s looking a bit cartoony.
Details from my freshly completed New Landscape Paintings – Push Mower. Full-sized finished version here.
Here’s Nancy Rubins and Robert Rauschenberg in front of and in the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. The Rubins sculpture looked great until my girlfriend pointed out that it was probably supposed to look like a big bird. Think I prefer it as an abstract cloud of garbage.
The latest in the New Landscape Paintings series, now featuring Golden Heavy Body Acrylics (and one tube of Winsor lemon yellow) on canvas. The final version can be viewed in my gallery, but not until there is a final version. Almost there.
Busy working on a New Landscape canvas, but in my spare time still toying (dare I say “fiddling”?) with the conductors. Also been reading a little about color theory, hence my starting with secondary colors and adding complementary tints.
Four studies for portraits. Some of my previous illustrations of composers can be seen here.
Found these in the garage the other day. Four drawings based on found images of death row prisoners, one of which looks a bit too much like a Bacon knock-off. Next was going to be Four First Ladies of California; that’s still in the preliminary stage.
The weed whacker, or string trimmer, was invented by a man from Houston, Texas who marketed it as the Weed Eater. Four decades later, these sketches in paint are preparatory studies for what will be my second weed whacker painting, scheduled to begin soon after FedEx arrives with my new art supplies.
“The grid serves not only as emblem but also as myth. For like all myths, it deals with paradox or contradiction not by dissolving the paradox or resolving the contradiction, but by covering them over so that they seem (but only seem) to go away.”
Thanks Rosalind Krauss.
I wasn’t sure about adding color so I snapped the first shot beforehand. I’m still not sure about adding color.
Though it’s not quite finished here, I have completed Tree Trimmer, the sixth of my New Landscape Paintings. If you count more than six of them posted on this blog, that’s because one or two of the earlier ones didn’t make the cut. So far these are all acrylic on paper, using Blick and Liquitex paints from large, relatively cheap tubes. The packaging says they’re lightfast but the low pigment/binder ratio does get difficult (eg, cadmium orange and raw sienna both require double coats to show up well, even on white paper). After this I may upgrade to “artist-grade” paints.
The finished version of this painting is in my gallery.
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