Selfie as a Rainy Day

I have been focusing on painting landscapes for the last several years. Until recently, I have been painting still-lifes now and again. I am now starting to paint portraits and figures. It is a slow start - making a few self-portraits - but I am hoping to increase this activity once the new studio is completed. In graduate school, and for a time afterward, I painted nothing but people. I have been missing the psychological aspect of a painting with a person in it and am seeing where this goes. Stay tuned.
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Featured Painting: Receding Wood

 

Receding Wood Oil Paint on Canvas 72” x 24” $2,500

This is a large landscape painting of a lightly wooded area in Northern Wisconsin. This is a painting whose colors got away from me. I used the same paint colors as all the rest of my recent paintings, but something in the mixing went in a different direction. Bright and electric, the colors capture a canopy changing with the seasons. The ground cover is in a charged dialog with the canopy while tree trunks create a rhythm of strong verticals across the picture plane. The whole composition is anchored by the receding purple of the understory that moves into the distance.

What's Cooking in the Studio

New studio - I have been working hard on trying to complete the new studio by the end of the summer. To that end, I have been tiling the bathroom. Other than building the landings at the front and back doors, this is the most time consuming part of finishing the studio. Once the tiling is done the electricians and the plumbers can finish what they need to do. My hope is to have the plumbing and electrical completed and passing inspection by the end of this month.

I cleaned - It doesn’t look it, but I spent quite a bit of time this month cleaning my studio. It really hasn’t been cleaned and organized since last year when I had several exhibits in a row and fell behind. I also have been putting things off, waiting until I move to the new studio. But, I couldn’t wait any longer. I was tripping over things, and when you make large paintings you need a lot of room to move them around. So I cleaned up the studio…and within a week it was back to where it was before. I really do need a new studio to help organize all of this.