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.
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