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 ‘plants’
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 [...]
Stalled
Posted in Work in Progress, tagged "untitled/girl tree", finishing, plants on January 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This painting is stuck right now. I want to finish it, and move my thoughts on to other paintings, very badly. But I just can’t figure out what to do to make that happen. It is a kind of failure of vision: I look and look but the forms stubbornly refuse to coalesce into resolution. [...]
Dying Peony
Posted in Work in Progress, tagged "untitled/girl tree", plants on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Um. I just realized that the horizon line is nowhere near horizontal. How could I not have noticed that it has a distinct slant to the right?
In other potential problem areas, I’ve been away from the studio for almost a week over Christmas, and I turned the space heaters off and let everything go into [...]
Living in Oregon
Posted in Life, In & Out of the Studio, tagged oregon, plants on November 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
is kind of magical. Now that the rains are back, the moss has regained its green voluptuousness after having desiccated over the summer into a brown and crunchy version of its usual glory. When Dave and I came out here last November to look for an apartment after he got his job, Oregon and Washington [...]
Two Pretty Sights in a Rainy Day
Posted in Life, In & Out of the Studio, tagged plants on October 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My potted pomegranate finally flowered again! We carried our houseplants 3,000 miles across the country from Boston, painstakingly lugging them all into our motel room every night, and out of the sub-zero weather of late December in the high plains. It was, frankly, a pain in the ass, and I was stricken when, recently, two [...]
