I am enamored of this greenish yellow color, which goes from a pale verdant gold to a murky, dark algae.
Working in watercolor is good practice for me in doing just enough. In holding back. In stopping. In conceiving something clearly at the outset, and carrying through, not second guessing myself if the process unfolds more [...]
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Less is More
Posted in Finished Work, Thinking Things Through, tagged watercolor, working from life on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mutual Support
Posted in Finished Work, tagged courbet, raphaelle peale, still life on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I think that’s going to be the title of this little painting, because of the way the two tiny pears are balanced, kind of holding each other up. It’s showing up here at about it’s actual size, 6″ x 6″. I can’t resist painting fruit (especially if it’s got some nice blemishes); I am perpetually [...]
Landscapes from Italy
Posted in Finished Work, tagged apple trees, italy, landscape, teaching on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This past summer I taught a landscape painting course for Boston University as part of their Study Abroad program. It was located on an farm/estate called Capitignano, in the Mugello Valley in Tuscany, a few miles outside of a little provincial town, Borgo San Lorenzo. Capitignano was extremely beautiful, and quite isolated. My students were [...]
Something Finished
Posted in Finished Work, Thinking Things Through, tagged amy sillman, control, yale on October 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Oil on linen. 16″ x 12″. (I never know whether height or width should come first). Still untitled. I think of it as tree-legs (man version), but hopefully something more . . . better will come to mind eventually.
This painting is small, because it was meant as a study for a larger version of the [...]
