Late Summer 2016

Spring, 2016

Some work at Blue Heron

Some work at the Blue Heron in York, Pennsylvania

Third of July 2015

Barn Studies

Daffodils

Table with Daffodils

Winter Still-life

Cody Napping

It has been a cold and dreary April.  Just the kind of weather to let a sleeping dog lie.

Cody Napping, oil on canvas   18" x 24"

Shelby in Their Seat

This painting is going into the 88th Annual International Juried Show at the Art Association of Harrisburg (opening on Saturday, May 21)

Shelby in Their Seat, oil on canvas 50" x 50"

Good dog?

Cody, oil and acrylic on canvas 50" x 42" 

Mustang and studio self-portrait (works in progress)

Mustang (Shelby), oil on canvas,  24"x30"

Self-Portrait in Studio 2015 oil on canvas, 30"x 40"

Self-portrait in Studio 2015, oil on canvas (in progress)

Daylilies 2015

Some daylily and landscape studies from this week.

Daylilies and Chair, 24" x 18" oil (2015)

Clair, watercolor (2015)

Daylilies, 24" x 18", oil (2015)

Barn study with Bee Balm and Daylilies, 18" x 24", oil (2015)

November studio

The studio in early November, 2014.

Lucy (and paintings)    2014

Brothers   2014

M1 and BALL M2   2014

Studio S & W    2014

Daffodils Checkered (past)

Daffodils - Checkered Tablecloth (first stage)

I have been painting this for almost two months- knocking everything out, re-painting.

We'll see what happens... I am more and more intrigued by dense closeness rather than large planes of flattened color.

Daffodils - Checkered Tablecloth (second stage)

Daffodils - Checkered Tablecloth (third stage)

Bump It Girl #7 (just do it)

Since the first week of the new year I have had an on again/off again relationship with this painting Trying to resolve and ignore problematic areas has kept me from working on other paintings, but it seems to finally be coming together.  Now Bump It Girl #7 (just do it) 42" x 42" oil on canvas is a little closer to what I had envisioned all along. Before the last two sessions, the piece had undergone a number of transitions and revisions (see below).

Bump It Girl #7 (just do it) 42" x 42" oil on canvas  - Here is the painting after the first day.

Afterward, the figure went through a series of transitions.  From this thinner figure...to

This fuller figure which began to form the structure for the next state. When I decided to paint out almost everything and start over. 

So I wiped almost everything out and started again.

"a Quarter Plus"

Here is the link to my upcoming one-person show at YorkArts (running from June 6 through August 3, 2013)

FRED HAAG “a Quarter Plus”
The work ranges from a figure painting from 1987 (Black Dress)

to a newer figure painting from spring 2013, to a figure painting from this past April (Garland, Jess II).

Black Dress 1987

Garland, Jess II 2013

The exhibit will also include oil paintings of my studio from the early 1990's to a few years ago and a number of "text" pieces

I and Thou (you bastard)

Religious Girl

Garland, Jess II

Garland, Jess II  48" x 36" oil on canvas painting.

I am trying to complete this before my one-person show at YorkArts which opens on June 6 (D-Day).  

The pieces in this show will cover a span of over twenty-five years and encompass my major subject areas:  the figure, the studio-interior, chairs, and the still-life. Since my sensibility is autobiographical, these pieces tend reflect my surroundings and experiences. I usually work from direct observation, but I also use memories and conversation as departure points for both paintings and drawings. I have noticed that, over time, this body of work often references itself through specific aspects of subject, color, composition, and even particularities such as patterns and brushwork. I like duality in both form and content: ambiguity and clarity; color and draftsmanship; manufactured and natural. I am currently working on a series of figure paintings and interiors.

It is progressing very slow and steady.

Painting likes to move around.

This started as a still-life for an upcoming show.  After seven hours or so it was starting to shape up.

but something wasn't right and I covered it with black paint and decided I would work on it today (Thursday).  Little did I know that a sick cat would take me to the vet, home, and that I would be digging a very good-size hole - I like to dig.

Jess and still-life, oil on canvas  40" x 48"

Anyway, by the time that my model got to the studio, I pushed the table to the right and made it a lot smaller, and added the figure on the left (rather than a chair).  It is a long way from looking the way I imagine it, but it is something to work with.

Jess and still-life, oil on canvas  40" x 48" (after some re-working the angle of the head)

After a bit more work this week.

Winter 2012 - 13

Tin Cup and Funnel, oil on canvas (11" x 14")

I remembered how the texture of paint and the smell of linseed oil and turpentine evokes memories of doing and making.  All sorts of nostalgia came flooding back as I started to work on the little painting behind the cup - it was a present to my Grandmother that I painted for her birthday over thirty years ago.

Winter Skulls and Pumpkins, oil on canvas (18" x 24")

 

 Trying to articulate the space gets complicated - finding that marriage of paint and object, color and space, line and shape.

Punk'n Bunny, oil on canvas (18" x 24")  I would never have thought that this stuffed rabbit would provide so much painting material.  I have a lot of other plans but making time to paint between semesters ending and beginning is a challenge.

Silly rabbit (-s)...

 Process?