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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘process’
Luddite Looking Forward
Posted in Work in Progress, tagged "Lead Balloon", acrylic, guerra paint, process on May 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Working Methods
Posted in Thinking Things Through, tagged process, working from life on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Until recently, I have considered the one of the most important aspects of my work to be the contrast between the smoothly rendered body parts and the more expressionistic passages, what a friend described as “your combination of brushless articulation and gestural painting.” But the more I compare my experience painting in these different ways [...]
