Art and Fear

Cognizantithesis 4

Acrylic & gesso on Yupo

25" X 19"

"Fears about artmaking fall into two families: fears about yourself, and fears about your reception by others. In a general way, fears about yourself prevent you from doing your best work, while fears about your reception by others prevent you from doing your own work."

David Bayles & Ted Orland

Art & Fear

I cannot recommend this book enough. If you are serious about your work it is a must read. If you have read it already, read it again.

It's Been Awhile

Pompadour

25" X 19"

Acrylic & Gesso on Yupo

It's been awhile since I've blogged and wouldn't you know it, just like Facebook this crazy blogger compose interface has changed. What can I say, perhaps I'm just not a natural born blogger. It takes so much time to do this and quite frankly I'd rather be painting. I'm 62 years old this November and still working a full time job to support the family (one daughter still at home and one starting her freshman year at Northern Arizona University). So I find myself going into the studio at all kinds of crazy hours. I apologize for not keeping up with all of my blogger friends and miss the interaction every time I get on here. I'm still lurking about looking at all the wonderful art that pops up from those I follow but just barely have the time to look at all of it. I do have some wonderful news to report (at least to me): I had a painting (Lunatic Fringe) accepted for the 91st Annual Exhibition of the National Watercolor Society. The painting was also chosen for the traveling exhibit. Oh yeah, and probably the best news, I was awarded signature status so it's off to San Pedro, California in October.

Sentinel

Sentinel

 

 

5.29.2011

 

 

6.4.2011

6.12.2011

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6.25.2011

6.26.2011

 

Nereid

Nereid

5.1.2011

 

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5.22.2011a

5.22.2011b

Depravity 7

Depravity 7

Painting with Sarah

Depravity 6

Sarah's Painting

Last night I was in the studio when my daughter Sarah came in asked if she could paint too. I was pleasantly surprised. She's almost 18 and I don't think she has asked that since she was in the early years of elementary school. Anyway I said, "Sure!, what would you like to paint?" She said she didn't care, "...lets just paint something together." So I fetched two painting surfaces and chose a palette that I thought would be fun for this exercise. It was Burnt Sienna, Ultramarine, Cadmium Orange, Cobalt Turquoise, Alizarin Crimson and Thalo Green. I created a dark Sepia hue by mixing Ultramarine and Burnt Sienna, then poured it around in various locations on the surface. I  showed Sarah how to move  the pigment around to catch some of the sides so as not to center anything but all the while leaving some valuable white space. Next we added Cadmium Orange and Cobalt Turquoise in various locations. Finally, we pulled it together using a Gray made from Alizarin Crimson, Thalo Green and gesso. These two paintings are our results.

3.13.2011

3.19.2011

3.20.2011

3.26.2011

 

3.27.2011

4.2.2011

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Passing Pleasures

Passing Pleasures

2.13.2011

 

 

2.20.2011

2.24.2011

3.6.2011

3.12.2011

Depravity 3

depravity |diˈpravitē|
noun ( pl. -ties)
moral corruption : a tale of wickedness and depravity.
• a wicked or morally corrupt act.
• Christian Theology the innate corruptness of human nature, due to original sin.
ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: alteration (influenced by deprave ) of obsolete pravity, from Latin pravitas, from pravus ‘crooked, perverse.’

Thesaurus   
depravity
noun
the depravity of white slavers corruption, vice, perversion, deviance, degeneracy, immorality, debauchery, dissipation, profligacy, licentiousness, lechery, prurience, obscenity, indecency; wickedness, sin, iniquity; formal turpitude.

1.1.2011

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