I thought I'd ask ChatGPT to tell us a bedtime story... Once upon a time, in a small house nestled deep in the woods, there lived a young artist named Dennis. Dennis was passionate about his art and spent countless...
(Collage: Lucien Freud early, middle and late styles.) Lucian Freud at the National Gallery Gazing at his early paintings (circa 1947), other artists float to my mind: Ben Shawn in the eyes and faces, Andrew Wyeth in the hair...
Pattern. "Patrón" or "modelo" in castellano. I'm looking for a way forward in the method that I've relied on for the past five years of using masking in painting. Lines, curves, leaves, vines, nature, text... I wanted to shake...
My brother Donnie dropped in last month for a visit, it was great to see him again and wonderful that he had another bite of the Big Apple. Writer, poet, philosophy major, ceramicist, there was a lot that NYC...
Some Thoughts on Painting Presented by The Brooklyn Rail and Hunter College Here are some thoughts I have about the panel discussion:...
The past cycle of paintings describes an arc of development from the instrumentalization of masking (as in masking tape) and directed projectiles of paint (paint, the remainders scraped off tools and tape, reserved aside throughout the process and then...
Anti-Delusionists #393 2011 30"x24"...
Luego, is what this post should be titled. There's been much paint put on and taken off on one of the big canvases since this shot was taken. The big question for today is whether I should scrape of...
It's been like that. Scrape offs. For the month of December... or most of it anyways. Click on for a brief tale of woe:...
UPDATE: A few notes on recent history follows at the jump......
One day recently, as I was busy cracking my egg (details in the link) in the studio, Henry Taylor dropped in. I told him of the progress of the work, of my efforts to surprise myself painting to painting....
I've been talking about breaking the egg for some time now. This is a reference to the imperative to challenge oneself in the studio, to fracture one's creative narrative, something I believe that is incumbent for artists of all...
Some recent history after the jump......
1. Just two days after August 29, 2005, when Hurricane Katrina smashed into New Orleans, architectural wunderkind Daniel Libeskind was already overflowing with ideas about how to restore the city. Libeskind?he of the 1,776-foot ?Freedom Tower? for New York?s Ground...
I've been deadheading in the studio for the past week or so, the scrape off made things dramatic. Long hours here. I can taste the linseed oil, it feels like it's oozing out of my pores. The wall: an...
Once again the studio is on a razor's edge....
I'm chopping wood over here. This painting was a scrape off until I saw what was underneath and liked it. Now, it's like a ship coming into port, slow and steady. Meanwhile, I've been called into jury duty. What...
A word floated up from that evening. What was it? Uuuummmmmmm. Yea. Imprimatur....
Last week was like this. The way I have been painting has been expanding the range of how I touch paint to canvas, evolving over time a print type of mark making that involves applying paint and removing it....
Not a good week for me so far. Time to double down. More blogging afterwards....
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