California Studio, July 2011

This is a recent photo of my California Studio. Yes, its a mess. Enjoy!

Competition - Three Figures

Acrylic on canvas, 'Competition - Three Figures', a recent painting from my California Studio.

Recent Painting, Seated Figure

Acrylic on Canvas, 'Seated Figure'.

Recent Paintings, 7-29-2011, California Studio

Painting, acrylic on canvas, study sketch of figure in landscape.

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!

Recent Work in California Studio

Acrylic on canvas, Seated Figure

Recent Work in California Studio

Acrylic on canvas, Two Figures.

Work in California Studio, continued

Acrylic on panel, Seated Figure

Recent work in California Studio

Acrylic on canvas, Untitled

Acrylic on canvas - 'Seated Figure'

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.

CA Sketches

Acrylic on Canvas.

CA Sketches

Acrylic on Canvas, study of three figures.  I'm working on a 6' x 8' canvas of this concept, this is a small black and white study of the relationship of the figures compositionally.

CA Sketches

Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas.

CA Sketches

Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas.

New work in process, series titled, 'Running Man'.

One of the paintings in the series 'Running Man'.  Watercolor and Ink on Paper.

New work in process, series titled, 'Running Man'.

One of the paintings in the series 'Running Man'.  Watercolor and Ink on Paper.

New work in process, series titled, 'Running Man'.

One of the paintings in the series 'Running Man'.  Watercolor and Ink on Paper.

New work in process, series titled, 'Running Man'.

One of the paintings in the series 'Running Man'.  Watercolor and Ink on Paper.

'The Race', 06/30/2010

'The Race', enamel and oil on panel, 36" x 48", 2010.