Progress...

Here's the latest progress on the 6 x 6 foot painting...

Revisions

One thing I've been doing this year is taking paintings from the last couple years that aren't quite right and re-working them. It is satisfying when you can bring it further along... This week I've been working on re-doing an abstract that I liked quite a bit, but felt it needed a little "more." So after playing around with it... a face emerged (but of course!). Here's the work in progress as well as the original. I like the direction its taking. Did I mention that it's big? Four 3 x 3 foot canvases, so it's 6 x 6 feet! I am so much happier when I can stretch out on a big canvas...

New work

Here's my latest. I'm working hard to prepare for the Rittenhouse Square Fine Art Show in Philadelphia next week!

Best in Show!

Wow, this 3' x 4' painting was awarded Best in Show Purchase Award at the Craven County Art Council and Gallery's 2011 juried Regional Art Show on Friday night! Now it will go into their permanent collection. I am humbled and honored by the award. I do like this painting and am happy that it will be resident there among my many friends in Craven County.

Its called "Soft Eyes." The New Bern Sun Journal did an article on the show.

Latest...

One of my favorite quotes is by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin:

L'amour est la plus universelle,
la plus formidable, et
la plus mysterieuse
des energies cosmique.


It was the inspiration for my latest painting, which I plan to enter in the Craven County show tomorrow. This started out as a drippy abstraction, then I added in the words and then created the face from the whole melange. Its hard to see the colorful abstract detail in the small post here, so I included a detail shot to try to convey it. It has good energy.

Update: decided to wait and work on this some more before entering it in a show... I like its energy but its still a little too dark.

Squiggles

I wanted to create some works on paper. I have some beautiful French-made Arches 300 lb. paper that was just crying out for some creativity. That combined with some Golden GAC mediums that make the paints really drippy resulted in these experiments. I dripped these images of faces directly on the paper without any drawings... of course only 1 out of 3 worked... but I'll make something different out of the ones that didn't work. Its fun and scary and rewarding when it comes through.

Spring Moon

Every day brings a beautiful new delight at Crosswinds. We've now seen dolphins, red drum tailing near shore, many species of birds (from hummingbirds to bald eagles), daily clam-diggers and crabbers working the river... we're starting to get into the rhythm of River Time. Like most folks in the Mill Creek area, we're finding ourselves loathe to going to town! Why bother when you can get clams, crabs, fish right outside your door?.... once the garden's in it will be hard to leave...