Posted in Work in Progress, tagged acrylic, Euan Uglow, guerra paint, Manet, Titian on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m sorry I haven’t been posting much recently. I’ve been navigating some heavy internal weather and am working up what is likely to be a somewhat epic post about it.
In the meantime, here’s the latest with the Guerra paint experiment:
It’s going pretty well, but it’s really different! I’m still figuring out what the colors are [...]
Posted in Work in Progress, tagged "Lead Balloon", acrylic, guerra paint, process on May 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In trying to finish this painting I spend a lot of time waiting for my eyes to see things in a fresh way, for an unexpected vision of possibility to jump out of the by now dull, locked-in, familiar sight. It’s like staring at one of those visual puzzles that have two potential pictures in [...]
Posted in Work in Progress, tagged "Jack", alex kanevsky, plants, working from life on May 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I got a new plant to replace the mysteriously blighted vine I was using as a model for this painting in its earlier incarnation. It is a kind of camellia that can grow into quite a large shrub or even a small tree, and which one sees in yards all over Portland. It has dark [...]
