Time for Spring cleaning or play?

New/Old Sarah, 15" x 12"
mixed media and collage on paper (2010)

Sometimes, you have to play.

Images of the self

As of March 7, 2010


March 6, 2010

Based on a recent discussion I had with a friend, I am working to make my figures heavier, or have more weight. I am not referring to pounds here, but rather substance. This is an acrylic self-portrait study (20" x 24") that I started late last week.

Article on Bau Movement exhibition

Here is a link to an article by Scott Campbell in the March issue of Harrisburg Magazine
The print article has photographs of all of the artists' artwork. The article is titled, York Gallery Promotes Regional Artists.

Winter Skull II

Winter Skull II, acrylic on canvas, 2010
This is a small study that I am working on, maybe combine it with something else later (more skulls, the bunny, who knows?) I have worked with these skulls before. Here is an old one from 2004 (below)


Winter Skulls, 2004 oil on canvas (sorry about the glare)

Bunny room (Cloth Bunny)

Cloth Bunny 42" x 36" acrylic on canvas, January 2010.







There are a few elements in this painting that might be familiar to people who have seen my painting over the last two years. This painting was started three weeks ago (right after Christmas) but the sketches and studies were not coming together. There are a few more elements/ subjects/ objects that I want to add.

But it has to be finished and dry by Friday morning!!!


The bunny room (it is starting to creep me out)

Wrong Thought (Sabine)

Wrong Thought (Sabine) acrylic on canvas

This is painting is inspired by Giambologna's sculpture, the Rape of the Sabine Women, in Florence Italy. Yes, I flipped the photo that I took during a visit two years ago.

Lost Bunny (found)

Lost Bunny (found) charcoal on paper
This is a study for something, not sure what, but something.

Lost Bunny (-ies)

Lost Bunny (-ies) acrylic on canvas 24" x 42", 2009

Thanksgiving is 26 days after Halloween

Smush face (thanks Ryan)


Collapse of empire

Some more Jess from Summer and Fall (2009)

Reclining Jess (2009) oil on canvas 24" x 18"


Thoughtful Jess (2009) oil on canvas 18" x 18"
Both of these were completed during that last days of October (when the weather was still warm enough to work in the barn-studio). It was difficult for me to work on the figure when I was trying to finish work for the Bau Movement show (scheduled to open in January, 2010). Painting and drawing the figure is probably my biggest challenge and favorite subject. There is something about working with a model that is so difficult and so rewarding at the same time.


White Dress oil on canvas (summer 2009) 42" x 36"

Leghorns

Leghorns Charcoal, india ink, and acrylic paint 22" x 30" 2009

Some new work (for the next show)

Chels Leaning (Arno) this is an acrylic on canvas painting 30" x 24"
(in a very rough and early state).






B. P. (Firenze) acrylic on canvas, 24" x 24"
This image was first used in a 2008 stencil (below), and for many reasons the story of Dante and
Beatrice Portinari always hits me when looking at photos that I took in Florence.

Eve's Coupons , I hope to work out an entire series using Adam and Eve.


I've been kicking around both of these ideas for almost a year now, and I decided to get them out instead of mulling over them. They are each in the beginning stages, and hopefully I will have more progree to post tomorrow.

Yorkfest Juried Exhibition

On August 4, I was very pleased to learn that two paintings were selected for the Yorkfest Juried Exhibition that is held each year at YorkArts in conjunction with the festival.

All of This III 2008 oil over acrylic on canvas



Jess Knitting 2009 oil on canvas

I was totally surprised to find out at last night's opening that All of this III had been selected for best of show by Jean Miller, Chair of Art and Design at Towson University.

The show runs through Saturday, September 26 at YorkArts, 10 N. Beaver Street in York, Pennsylvania.

Chels Leaning (Firenze ) - completed painting

"Chels Leaning (Firenze)" 42" x 36" acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 2009


from yesterday (July 22)

You can see the earlier versions of this painting from last month (June 22) at (Chels Leaning (Firenze) - in progress and pulling together)


This painting began as a photograph that I had taken on a trip to Florence last year. I manipulated it by turning it into a negative, then enlarged it and printed it. After a bunch of modifications, I made a stencil and transferred it to a mid-sized canvas.

Some Landscapes

Working with watercolor seems to be a battle between flow and restraint; between wet and sharp; between open and closed.


"Summer Fence row" 18" x 12" watercolor, 2009




"Mount Pisgah" 24" x 18" watercolor, 2009