Report: Page Four

12" x  12"
Oil on canvas

Report: Page Three (Bored?)

Pastel and charcoal on paper
18" x 24"

Oyster shell retrieved from the beach.

Report: Page Two

Pastel and charcoal on paper
18" x 24"

Pastel and charcoal on paper
18" x 24"

Yesterday I took about 50 photographs of new work and a few pieces which still need some effort.  Enough of a supply that I'll be posting for the next two weeks!

Report: Page One

Untitled/Unfinished!
Oil on canvas
48" x 36"

Ok, so here it goes.  I'm feeling like I want to publish these, although at least the work above is, sad to say, a continuing work in progress. I'll search through my computer collection of images and see if I can locate some earlier versions of this.  It is, I feel, productive to look at the path a piece takes.  Doing this work without tracing the evolution almost denies the process.  Well, maybe that's a bit strong but picture making for me is a process containing (hopefully) a  gradual recognition of what's going on, sort of.  I search through planes of balance, symmetry, color and sometimes symbol. This is what this is right now!

Untitled/Unfinished
Oil on canvas
48" x 36"

 

Well, this one is in the same category as her partner...except that it has a lot less activity in terms of floating objects with rough similarity to flowers and leaves in addition to flowing ball bearings.  I think I know where I'm headed, visually speaking, with this.  Symbolically, well that's maybe a different story.  Just another Venus?  I see her that way but she's coiled, almost avoiding discovery, floating and not attached.........

Two "modernist" landscape inspired pictures are below.  The horizon with the hills challenged me and in a flourish last week I made changes I think resolve it.  Anyway, I'm going to hang it over the living room sofa!

The rising horizon looks almost a tropical setting but the inspiration was a trip to the hill town of Conway.  Actually finished it a few months ago; just got around to taking this photograph today!

 Untitled
Oil on canvas
18" x 24"

Untitled
Oil on canvas
24" x 36"




Lastly (for today/Page 2 tomorrow!) something I worked on for over a year before sorting it out. 

Untitled
Oil on board
16" x 20"

  

Summer Report

Gouache and watercolor on board

Gouache and watercolor on board

These two pieces are from work I did early in the spring of this year.  I actually don't have any photos of what I have spent my time on since then.....but I hope to remedy that in a few days!  I finished an oil figure, the oil landscape that was so problematic for such a long time and have continued with three (3) large figurative pieces and an abstracted (sort of) floral-stimulated "design", all with oil.  If I can get my act together this weekend I'll photograph them all as well as several to many charcoal/gouache/watercolor works on paper around which I seem to do the canvas work.  I'll reserve making an observation on the productive use of my time until I've posted again.  So until then, the Summer Report is incomplete.  Come back soon!!

More Klimt Inspired

Don't think I've shown this before.  Photographed in August 2009 so I think that's when I did it.  Watercolor and gouache on cardboard.

Blue Figure

Watercolor, charcoal and gouache on cardboard
2010