Nested bowls — oil on maple panel, 10 x 10 inch (25 x 25 cm), 08/20/2010
Nested bowls, no. 2 — graphite on mylar, 5 x 7 inch (13 x 18 cm), 08/17/2010
Nested bowls, no. 1 — graphite on mylar, 8 x 8 inch (20 x 20 cm), 08/17/2010
Category Archives: still-life indoor
Garlic in plastic bag with egg and tea
Garlic in plastic bag with egg and tea — oil on maple panel, 10 x 10 inch (25 x 25 cm), 08/16/2010
Garlic in plastic bag with egg and tea — graphite on mylar, 5 x 7 inch (13 x 18 cm), 08/12/2010
Rose with egg
Rose with egg — graphite on mylar, 5 x 7 inch (13 x 18 cm), 08/12/2010
Bagel, egg and tea – no. 2
Bagel, egg and tea, no. 2 — oil on maple panel, 10 x 10 inch (25 x 25 cm), 08/11/2010
Bagel, egg and tea, no. 2 — graphite on mylar, 5 x 7 inch (13 x 18 cm), 08/11/2010
Bagel, egg and tea – no. 1
Bagel, egg and tea, no. 1 — oil on maple panel, 10 x 10 inch (25 x 25 cm), 08/9/2010
Bagel, egg and tea, no. 1 — graphite on mylar, 5 x 7 inch (13 x 18 cm), 08/8/2010
Bagel, egg and tea, no. 1 — graphite on mylar, 5 x 7 inch (13 x 18 cm), 08/8/2010
White Hydrangea
Week 2, Bennington, Vermont
The following pieces are the last images I’ll post from the Art New England / Mass Art workshop at Bennington College, Vermont. I was thrilled to be in a class called “Advanced Painting.” We were shown methods of working on mylar using pencil and a slurry of graphite powder and stand oil/OMS. It’s a delicious medium to use for fluid handling of values. The images have characteristics of litho, monoprint, charcoal, and photo, depending on how the materials are pushed. It’s incredibly flexible and expressive. The mylar also takes watercolor, gouache, and oils. Archival longevity has not been established.
Hydrangea in vase, graphite on mylar, 10 x 8 inch (25 x 20 cm), 07/28/2010
Hydrangea, oil on mylar, 5 x 7 inch (13 x 18 cm), 07/30/2010
Hydrangea
Week 2, Bennington, Vermont
My time on the road included a side trip to visit Tad Spurgeon. After years of appreciating his work online, Tad generously let me interrupt his painting time to meet and see his work in person. His studio is a wondrous cavern filled to the brim with paintings stacked and hung on every surface. It is a marvelous workshop of intense explorations. His extensive experiments with materials are a treasure chest of silicas, putties, gels, marble mixing slabs and windows full of countless bottles of aging oil glowing on the sills. Delacroix seemed to be right around the corner, about to be the next visitor to stop by.
The following drawings were created during the second week of the Art New England / Mass Art workshop program at Bennington College, Vermont.
Hydrangea, no. 5 — graphite on mylar, 5 x 7 inch (13 x 18 cm), 07/27/2010
Hydrangea, no. 4 — graphite on mylar, 7 x 5 inch (18 x 13 cm), 07/27/2010
Hydrangea, no. 3 — graphite on mylar, 7 x 5 inch (18 x 13 cm), 07/27/2010
Hydrangea, no. 2 — graphite on mylar, 7 x 5 inch (18 x 13 cm), 07/27/2010
Hydrangea, no. 1 — graphite on mylar, 4 x 5 inch (10 x 13 cm), 07/27/2010
Still-life
Week 1, continued
These pictures are hand held snap shots of the last two paintings done during a one week independent study offered by the Art New England / Mass Art workshop program at Bennington College, Vermont.
Egg, Rose, and Scone, oil on paper, 5.5 x 9.5 inch (14 x 24 cm), 07/23/2010
EE: “Category bending: still-life as landscape.”
PY to EE: “They’re doing baked goods; watch your back.”
SB: “Keep that one as an example of what you want to do.”
TS: “People are looking for intimacy.”
Funnel and Apples, oil on linen (mounted panel), 8 x 8 inch (20 x 20 cm), 07/22/2010
CC: “A Cezanne sort of thing.”
SB: Agrees with me that “the lower left corner, the green apple and shadow, is good.”
Still-life series
These pictures are hand held snap shots of the first three paintings done during a one week independent study offered by the Art New England / Mass Art workshop program at Bennington College, Vermont.
Chicken and Cup, oil on linen (mounted panel), 10 x 8 inch (25 x 20 cm), 07/21/2010
Oil Jars and Apple, oil on linen (mounted panel), 8 x 8 inch (20 x 20 cm), 07/20/2010
Mustard Jar and Apples, oil on linen (mounted panel), 8 x 8 inch (20 x 20 cm), 07/19/2010
Nested bowls, and poem
Nested bowls, no. 3 — graphite on mylar, 8 x 8 inch (20 x 20 cm), 08/27/2010
~
Tree at my window, window tree,
My sash is lowered when night comes on;
But let there never be curtain drawn
Between you and me.
~
Vague dream-head lifted out of the ground,
And thing next most diffuse to cloud,
Not all your light tongues talking aloud
Could be profound.
~
But, tree, I have seen you taken and tossed,
And if you have seen me when I slept,
You have seen me when I was taken and swept
And all but lost.
~
That day she put our heads together,
Fate had her imagination about her,
Your head so much concerned with outer,
Mine with inner, weather.
~
Robert Frost, You Come Too, 1959, Henry Holt and Company, New York