Sunday, June 30, 2013

Fortress of Solitude

Saw Gatsby and saw Superman.








Determined to add some depth and motion and did some serious underpainting and overpainting.  




Day two, calmed them down a bit.  


Alone in my barn

Had a solid weekend of getting out to the barn to paint. Some serious underpainting.  And over painting.  Damn liquid acrylic dries real fast.   Interesting what happens when you pull out the color.



Sunday, June 23, 2013

The photo should look like the painting, but sometimes the photo looks better.

The longest day of the year has come, and the fullest full moon seems to have coincided.  The rains of late have made the grass green and the trees fully leafed, if that's a word.   The twelve paintings in the studio continue to evolve, six large and six small.  The ability to shoot digital pictures of them reveal some to be more photogenic than others.  And why shouldn't paintings be like people.

And yet, there is an interplay between a photogenic picture of a painting.  The painting doesn't look as good as the picture.  The reflection of light on the canvas gives it a life it doesn't actually have.  And conversely, the pictures don't capture some of what a painting might offer.  And so the urge to have the painting, from time to time, look like the picture, as well as the other way around. 

Six large paintings in the studio








Sunday, June 2, 2013

Five of Twelve paintings in the studio - June 2013

Not sure where the top of this painting is.  Actually, that happens to me fairly frequently.