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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘“Jack”’
Jack is Back
Posted in Work in Progress, tagged "Jack", alex kanevsky, plants, working from life on May 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Goodbye, Beanstalk
Posted in Work in Progress, tagged "Jack", plants on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I pushed the restart button on this painting. I bought a new plant yesterday, and I hope it will both be fun to paint and that it will stay alive long enough to finish the goddamn painting. Unfortunately, it’s not at all like the original plant, so I guess I’ll have to give up my [...]
Jack & the Beanstalk
Posted in Work in Progress, tagged "Jack", plants, problems, working from life on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I finally started work in earnest on this diptych that I began last fall. I had been waiting till I found and moved into a new studio, because I didn’t want to get all set up and then have to move, which would’ve been disruptive. However, I’ve nonetheless been stymied by an unexpected consequence [...]
Another Tree Person
Posted in Work in Progress, tagged "Jack", art supplies on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve started another small scale study for a person transforming/dissolving into foliage. But this time, I’m thinking of trying something a little different: making it a diptych, by stacking another canvas on top of this one, in order to separate the body part from the leafy part,
I can’t show you the two canvases together yet, because I [...]
