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A Winter’s Day

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A Winter's Day
A Winter’s Day

Another created during May 22-13, 2015.  This is latex on Rustoleum’s Lagoon (satin finish), 36″ x 24″.

Once I had sprayed the background and while it was still wet, I decided to tinker with a subtractive process and scratched some random lines into the paint with a stick (I have been painting in my front yard of late–weather permitting) revealing the white canvas beneath.  Then I carefully dipped a brush in white latex to maintain control over the paint and dribbled white lines approximately parallel to the scratches.   The result gave the feeling of distance between the white paint and the faded white near it.  This looks like a light snow falling from a clear, blue sky and thus the name.

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Winter Sun

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Winter Sun, 2015
Winter Sun, 2015

Here is another I created on May 18, 2015.  I wanted to give the impression of a bright, dominating sun on a clear winter’s day when the cold has that snap to it.  I used the colors associated with such a day.  The paints are acrylic and latex and the canvas is 16″ x 20″.  I will be showing this in Farmington during June.

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Blue Jupiter

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Blue Jupiter, 2015
Blue Jupiter, 2015

In preparing for the upcoming show I found two small tabletops lying around that I had purchased months ago from Lowe’s for experiments with something other than traditional canvas. For me, the most obvious thing they could represent would be planets, particularly with NASA’s latest exploratory expeditions being so prominent in recent headlines.  After contemplating what could be done with the smallest tabletop, I thought that the wood grain could represent the bands around Jupiter.  There is also a small defect in the wood in almost the same location as the Jupiter’s famed red spot.  Therefore I decided to mask the defect with red latex.  I used a yardstick to approximate Jupiter’s band and it worked fairly well.  To bring out the red spot, I made the rest of the planet various tones of blue. I used white and shades of brown to enliven the work  “Blue Jupiter” is fifteen inches in diameter. .

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Wave and Sun

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Wave and Sun
Wave and Sun

This has always been one of my favorites, though I am not certain why.  I painted this several years back (2009? 2010?) when I lived on the Gulf Coast at Corpus Christi, TX.  I do not recall how I came up with the idea.  Somehow it comes to mind that I was at Bob Hall Pier on North Padre Island when it occurred to me to have a wave with its crest pointing to the sun.  The sea and sky of course would be blue and the sun as a large yellow dot would draw the viewer’s attention to it along with the crest of the wave.   The sun would have to be off-center of course.  I made the texture of the wave by stringing light blue paint up and down in curves to shape the wave.  Now that I am thinking of it, it seems that a lot of the challenge in composition to me has been to draw the viewer’s eye around the canvas.  In my abstracts I try to do this by putting small spots of dabs of color against contrasting backgrounds.  For example, if I had a mostly dark blue abstract, I might put a dab of bright yellow paint in one corner and a bit of bright orange in another, and so forth, if I thought the viewer’s eye needed to go to that spot to keep the eye moving.   Anyway, that should be the subject for another post dealing with abstracts instead of something more realistic like this wave and sun.

Thoughts?  Comments?

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Foxfire

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Foxfire
Foxfire

This is a small digital work I created one evening while toying with Photoshop.  I used dark blue and black background to emphasize distance.  Then I risked straining the eyes of the viewer by using red balls, whose edges I darkened gradually to increase the three-dimensional effect.  It’s a simple work, but one I find intriguing even though I created it.