progressions

Reclined

Ink and gouache on paper

today

18" x 24"
acrylic on paper

24" x 18"
acrylic on paper

24" x 18"
acrylic on paper

36" x 36"
oil on canvas

Detail
40" x 40"
oil on canvas

The top three images were created today; the others, works in progress, also had my attention.

Color work today

Cell phone photos/w'sip

Future Wave

I will be showing several new pieces with four other painters in a group exhibit at Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery in Shelburne, Vermont beginning September 16, 2016.  As the date gets closer I will provide particulars but the exhibit is entitled Future Wave and will run until October 29th.
This is a wonderful opportunity for me to exhibit my recent work and I'm delighted to show work at Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery!

Yesterday I worked around this piece and pushed some color with the hope of organizing the view but mostly to create a sort of reasoned chaos.

And a few more from Gloucester

These are all 24" x 18" and acrylic on paper.  Made them very quickly with brush and pallet knife.

New and more new

So, I spent four days this week in Gloucester including three days of art making at the Rocky Neck Cultural Center as a participant at the Goetemann Artist Residency Distinguished Artist/Teacher program for 2016 conducted by Julie S. Graham.  Ms. Graham is a faculty member of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and a nationally known and respected artist and educator.   Her three day program was designed to lead the twelve participants toward an increased appreciation of contemporary abstract painting skills and techniques as well as an understanding of the painterly stretch from reality to abstraction.  As a painter primarily tied to observation of the real world for source material, a structure for movement toward further abstraction seemed an important point for consideration.
I have sensed a self-imposed constraint on my work seemingly resonating from the tension revealed as I move through  a piece.  Precision in execution to record the observation in a literal way or let the paint speak through me?  To some greater extent I believe I've given the paint and color a dominant voice although on balance the work is realist in structure.
I attended Julie's program to explore the possibilities and certainly feel the time was so well spent.  In addition to an examination of contemporary abstraction we used materials which, to a large degree, I have ignored in my work.  Who would know that acrylic paint might be fun?
Additionally, the opportunity to share with a group of accomplished art professionals, art educators and recognized, exhibited painters was an extraordinary dividend.  
Here a a few of my pieces from the workshop.

Actually, I did the last/bottom piece after I returned.  But I like it!

Rockin' studio view

Details/works in progress

Syncing to the pulse of Bonnard/river rocks on and on

Digital enhancement of work in
progress/oil on canvas board

Not so pleased with her blue lips but the digital camera and color processing leave me uncertain about how to achieve true color duplication.  Lighting I guess.
Two realities represented here; two dreams for reflection.

Little bit more

Detail/work in progress

Two days work

Monday

Sunday/wip/oil on canvas 36"x36"