'Abraham Sacrificing a Ram', Watercolor, Gouache and ink on board, 9" x 12"
Saturday, November 5, 2011
California Art Studio, November 2011
These are some views of work in progress in my California Art Studio. The first and last views are my work table where I do smaller study works; the middle two views are the wall that I use for larger works. These images give you an idea about the materials, etc. that I use in my work.
Desert Vista outside Desert Center, California
Here's a shot out of my vehicle window driving along Desert Center Rice Road during the storm yesterday, 11-04-2011. Quite a haboob in Phoenix, didn't get a picture of it since my view was mostly through a brown mist, but I am still coughing up remnants of it this morning.
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Sunday, September 11, 2011
9-11 remembrance - Elijah Grubbs Drawing
This is a picture my son, Elijah, drew on the evening of 9/11/2001. He was 5 years old at the time.
While we were watching the events unfold on TV, I asked him to take a break and go to his room for a while, and he drew this image.
I'm always amazed at the way children view the world - that he pieced all of the events together in a prescient moment; in part because that is the way he perceived it from viewing the unfolding events through the media, but another perspective is that by placing the planes apart from the buildings that it is an act of intellectual resistance - that it might be possible that either the event doesn't actually occur or that it could somehow be prevented.
The image depicts a frozen moment in time before the world changed.
9-11 Remembrance
This is a study of the right panel of the 9-11 remembrance triptych. Oil on panel, 48" x 72".
9-11 Remembrance
This is a sketch of the center panel of the 9-11 remembrance triptych. Graphite on paper.
9-11 Remembrance
This is a graphite on paper sketch for the left panel of the 9-11 remembrance triptych.
In Remembrance of 9-11
Memory of 9-11, Gouache on paper. This is part of a series of studies for a 9-11 remembrance triptych I've worked on annually since the event.
Saturday, July 30, 2011
California Studio, July 2011
Competition - Three Figures
Acrylic on canvas, 'Competition - Three Figures', a recent painting from my California Studio.
Study Painting - draft version
Recent Paintings, 7-29-2011, California Studio
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Recent Work in California Art Studio
Acrylic on Canvas, 'Sports Play'.
Recently, I've been working primarily with charcoal, pastels and acrylic on canvases. Some are stretched over wooden frames, others I'm stapling directly to the wall of my studio. I'm saturating the canvases with water and keeping wet while working - the air is very dry in the California desert, and the heat tends to make the paints dry quickly. Each painting is developed over multiple sessions, and worked at varying levels of impasto and dryness.
I'll update the blog with some of my larger works in the coming days, so stay tuned.
Enjoy!
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Friday, July 8, 2011
Saturday, July 2, 2011
California Studio - the 'Desert Hut'
This is an interior shot of my studio in Twentynine Palms, California, known as the 'Desert Hut'.
The painting on the right is 'Competition', the painting on the left is a portrait with a series of other canvases that are stapled to the wall beneath it.
When working like this, the painting on top leaves a residue on the painting directly under it. Architects often speak of the notion of palimpsest, where an aspect of the city or a previous building are left as a residual element in a new architectural construction. Extending this concept to painting, I'm discovering similar possibilities with the stacking and subsequent removal of paintings stapled directly to the wall one atop another.
This image can give you a sense of the various scales of work that I'm engaged in developing, ranging from small sketches to what I would call mid-sized canvases.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
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