Category: Painting

Slow be the True

12/2/2022

"Reclamation" (2022 No.11, state 06), oil on canvas. 51x56⅛ inches

Drawing 11·30·2022, pencil on paper, 16x20 inches

Things are getting better. Getting to truth is a very slow process. In, out, up, down, scribble, scrabble, knock down, open up, find, reject; then do it all again.

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Snaking Along Toward Getting Right

11/30/2022

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"Reclamation" (2022 No.11, state 05), oil on canvas. 51x56⅛ inches

This painting is going, going... I am optimistic this painting will represent me more than any painting I have done before. If anything, this is me true-working. I am throwing out every distraction, dispelling all things that do not make sense to it being right for me.

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A Need for Haste

11/29/2022

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"Reclamation" (2022 No.11, state 04), oil on canvas. 51x56⅛ inches

When things are not quite right, and a possible solution is discerned, haste becomes imperative.

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Man in a Hurry

11/27/2022

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"Reclamation" (2022 No.11, state 03), oil on canvas. 51x56⅛ inches

I will say little because my need to say is increasingly in my Art. Explanations have been instructive, but time consuming. Now I am a man in a hurry because I know I want to proceed to paint, not dwell with thoughts and words on what I have done.

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Hitting Closer to Home

11/26/2022

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"Reclamation" (2022 No.11, state 02), oil on canvas. 51x56⅛ inches

I am getting better. I better recognize that which says me when I see it. This is mindfulness in action. It is my mind that interests me. I bare what says me and I make better.

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The Back & Forth

11/22/2022

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Drawing 11·20·2022, pencil on paper, 16x20 inches

"Reclamation" (2022 No.11, state 01), oil on canvas. 51x56⅛ inches

There is nothing more important to successful problem solving than a goal with a limited amount of time to achieve it. These two images are creative discovery leading to successful solutions. The drawing is complete. The painting is on a path. Both images illustrate my need to compress time, us it wisely and well. I fear my time is limited. I am not ill. I do accept my time to create is bound by my finite existence. I accept my mortality. Mortality is the restriction that defines my personal and Artistic limits.

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Summation & Movement

11/17/2022

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Drawing 11·16·2022, pencil on paper, 20x16 inches

"Ghost Town" (2022 No.9, state 09), oil on canvas, 55¼x58⅞ inches

"Shape of Things to Come" (2022 No.8, state 4), oil on canvas, 53x55 inches

New drawing with more insight; revisions to two paintings, now declared "complete" — that's all he wrote.

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Verisimilitude Foraging

11/2/2022

"Ghost Town" (2022 No.9, state 08), oil on canvas, 55¼x58⅞ inches

Drawing 10·30·2022, pencil on paper, 20x16 inches

Verisimilitude is as much about me as it is about you. My job is to make appearances work for both of us. Your job is to see and feel. My job is to make Artwork for both of us. My products must mimic my vision, make it clear, precise, easy to read. I am talking about personal vision being translated into universal visual language. The two works I show today are steps in the right direction.

Continuity of Process

10/30/2022

"Ghost Town" (2022 No.9, state 07), oil on canvas, 55¼x58⅞ inches

Drawing 10·28·2022, pencil on paper, 16x20 inches

Drawing 10·29·2022, pencil on paper, 16x20 inches

Of these two drawings I prefer the one I began on 10/28 (completed yesterday). The other drawing is OK; it looks like I lost my processing edge. When I get tired I tend to look for a solution by use of form, rather than through composition. Compositional solutions are superior when the emotional tug-o-war rests upon the play of negative versus positive space.

"Ghost Town" is in state #7. It is getting better.