2013 is nicely underway and I have been busy in the studio, but the large drawing that I have been working on since late last summer is presenting me with a low threshold for studio fatigue; I have noticed that I can do about 20 or so hours of drawing and then I have to [...]
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I am in the final twenty hours or so of a large scale drawing, so I have become possessed with finishing the piece. Or, maybe it is that the momentum is increasing as the white of the paper diminishes. Regardless, every spare minute is focused on the drawing, so hopefully it will be finished in [...] “[Photography] is the easiest medium in which to be competent. Anybody can be a marginally capable photographer, but it takes a lot of work to learn to become even a competent painter. Now, having said that, I think while photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is probably the hardest [...] One thing I miss about living in the South is the prevalence of affordable antique/flea markets. I spent last weekend in Virginia where I went antiquin’ (as my grandmother would have said) with my aunt. Here is my little treasure, already in a place of honor on my studio wall: Be still my Julia Margaret [...] I now have decent photos for two of my recent drawings: Self-portrait in War Paint #2 (the introvert) The Cumulative Effects, graphite on layered paper, 14 x 24 inches x 1 inch deep The Cumulative Effects (detail) The Cumulative Effects (detail) The difference between the art photographer’s TIFF files and my [...] From my Moleskine sketchbook, Strange Tale #10: The Apparition that Instigated the (as yet unfounded) Order of Benevolent Handicrafters Approximately 7 x 5 inches, pencil on paper. …… And now, in anticipation of the transition from Winter into Spring, some photos of melting ice on shrubs and trees in my garden: … Finally got [...] I am going to come right out and say it: I am not a fan of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. Oh, I get the angst thing: I read the book in my twenties and even at that time I understood and identified with the disillusionment, etc., but Holden Caulfield was not a [...] This is the first in a triptych of self-portraits, which I have loosely titled “Conversations with Goya”: Graphite on paper, 18 x 17 inches I will reserve the artist statement about the triptych until all three self-portraits are finished, and I am not sure that “Conversations with Goya” will be the final title, but [...] My eyes are crooked. Seriously, my eyes are slightly misaligned – the right one is a millimeter higher than the left. I have been aware of this since I was a teenager when it dawned on me that the reason why I could never get my eyeliner to look right was because one lid was [...] I LOVE October. Every year around this time I find myself longing to be a landscape painter…fortunately for all, this feeling passes as soon as the leaves have fallen from the trees, though not usually in time to prevent me from grabbing some gouache or watercolor to make truly pathetic attempts at painting trees [...] |
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