Studio with two oil paintings, 50x50 oil on canvas. Acrylic paper collage. Acrylic paper collage, charcoal drawing, oil on wood panel. Color free studies and modified boxes, color-aid paper. Madrid sketchbook, Goya, 2nd of May. Madrid sketchbook, Goya, 2nd of May. Madrid sketchbook, Ribera, Magdalen. Madrid sketchbook, El Greco, portraits and the … [Read more...]
Color Class
Make two colors look like one. … [Read more...]
BU First Month
Events are moving too quickly to post everything from the graduate school program on the blog. Here are highlights. The photographs are snapshots, hand held, daylight. The city paintings are influenced in part by recently reading Don DeLillo's White Noise. The story concerned an "airborne toxic event" hovering over Somerville, Mass, circa 1985. The next series of paintings use only black and … [Read more...]
Lemon on Transparent Plate Color Exercise
Lemon on Transparent Plate, no. 1, oil on linen gatorboard, 4 x 5 in (10.16 x 12.7 cm), 7/6/2008 Lemon on Transparent Plate, no. 2, oil on linen gatorboard, 4 x 5 in (10.16 x 12.7 cm), 7/8/2008 … [Read more...]
Color Exercises
Two objects of the same size, shape and color, set apart by a different object placed between them. ABOVE: Clay Pot and Green Apples, oil on masonite, 5 x 7 in (12.7 x 17.78 cm), 6/12/2008 Clay Pot and Green Apples, micron pigment liner on Strathmore, 4 x 6 in (10.16 x 15.24 cm), 6/9/2008 … [Read more...]
Butter Pot and Tomato
Two objects of about the same size, shape, and color with different surfaces. ABOVE: Butter Pot and Tomato, oil on masonite, 5 x 7 in (12.7 x 17.78 cm), 6/3/2008 … [Read more...]
Color Exercises
Most of my adult life, time spent painting happens on the margins of work in high-tech. This fragmented, unpredictable, inconsistent, lack of schedule produces truncated blocks of time. That’s why painting small and fast is an approach that allows me to continue to grow despite interruptions from other responsibilities. My school education in the 1970s and 80s was chaotic and contradictory rather … [Read more...]
Color Charts
In 1976, I purchased "The Artist’s Handbook of Materials and Techniques" by Ralph Mayer, following a respected instructor's advice that it was the only book of its kind I would ever need. Too many years later I came to understand how naive I was. Now a growing number of books on materials and methods in painting share shelf space laden with art history, biography, theory, and aesthetics. Paint … [Read more...]