Sunday, June 7th, 2020

Continuing the series: 9"x12" Sennelier pastel poster cards, oil pastels, bee's wax etc.

Thursday, June 4th, 2020

I was rummaging through some paper stock and came across some Sennelier pastel cards- these are about 9x12 and the surface has an almost sandpaper quality-great teeth to absorb pastels. These are 3 studies for larger work...oil pastels with bee's wax on top and then scrapped off and finished with a pastel fixative spray. I've posted the images oversized so that the textures and subtleties can be seen.

"Colour Study #1"

"Colour Study#2"

"Colour Study #3" (Homage to Sean Scully-unconscious)

Sunday, May 31st, 2020

More work...

My beloved partner and wife is a weaver and introduced me to Anni Albers who said that "Art cannot be designed." This is 16" x20" canvas acrylic base with oil sticks and gesso. Title "Anni Albers."Of course!

This is on Arches oil paper 12" x16" and oil sticks/bees wax and scrapping creating a staining. Titled, "Dion's Little Sister."

Same mediums and dims as above. Titled, " Raoul Dufy." 

Stay healthy and keep your distance!

May 27th

Hard to believe that it's been more than 3 months since I last posted but there's this bug going around...

I had brought a bunch of supplies home from the studio but in the two months that I spent in lockdown , I didn't even attempt to pick up a brush or pastel- I was too angry...to paraphrase "Groundhog Day,"- don't paint angry...I'm still angry but the need to work becomes overwhelming...the first few days back in the studio I was lost so I spent two days cleaning my space and did my brushes which is always such a Zen activity for me...Anyway, here's hoping you and yours are safe and sound...only five more months of the madness that passes for national leadership to come to a crashing halt.

New Work:

This is first piece I completed upon returning to the studio. I had been thinking colors all through the quarantine and these jumped out at me.
16"x24" oil sticks and bee's wax and that's not black- it's Turkish Umber. "Quarantine"

 This is a larger piece- 30"x40" the background is the result of 4 or 5 scrub downs starting with a teal acrylic background and then oil stick and multiple coats of gesso scrapped and reapplied and then charcoal and oil pastels. "Carnival Bachanalis."

18" x 24" "Portrait at 27" oil sticks and gesso and charcoal

Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020

36"x 48" Acrylics, Casein paint and oil paint. Title is "US 27 North"

Thanks for looking! Abandon the creeping meatball of mediocrity!

Snow Days Work-Friday, Feb.7th 2020

Winter weather Indiana style meant no school on Thursday and Friday so I got to spend some quality time at the studio. Two new pieces are the result.

First piece (below) is on Gatorboard 36"x48" all acrylics with bees wax finish. "Caribbean."

I'm always curious about the impact different paints have on different mediums. I had a couple pieces of plexiglass and remember reading about an artist who worked on plexiglas. I gessoed the back of a piece of 24"x24" and used acrylics and wax on the front. "Veils." 

I Carry My Landscapes With Me...

Tuesday, Feb.4th, 2020, On Arches 18x24 watercolor paper- sky is turquoise Speedball ink mixed with deep turquoise acrylic and the bottom is  ochre and violet acrylic with bee's wax finish. "Desert Dunes." Thanks for looking... Art Matters!