Painting
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Big Mo, oil on canvas, 48 x 60 inches This is my biggest painting ever! Sure, he’ll get a new name… when I’ve had a chance to reflect and consider and roll it over in my mind and all. Titles of paintings are little works of art in themselves. They need to encapsulate the piece and be truthful…
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The artists’ alliance is gonna be in the Modern Art show at the Modern Hotel and Bar. We’ve got the 14-foot high decorative concrete wall that looks out onto the parking lot in front of the hotel lobby. We’ll hang one-foot square self-portraits and Ts, Vs, and As on it. It’s gonna be so. cool.…
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To begin with, But, I hasten to add, because, with that and how would we ever know ? In light of all that, it’s hard to ignore it from the perspective of , which leads me to conclude that, at least for now, .
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Here’s the newest painting, hot, hot, hot out of the oven! It’s a new kind of painting for me because it relies so much on the burnt siena speaking for itself. It ain’t easy being this willing to let my paintings speak for themselves, but I’m learning!
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This checkery floor just popped out of the tube like this, I promise.
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It occurred to me that Leonardo had it all goin’ on with the whole one-point perspective thing in compositions like the Last Supper and the Adoration of the Magi — two favorites of mine since I was just a lad. And by “favorites” I mean formative in a way that I haven’t the words to describe. So last year I…
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I started a new canvas yesterday. It was bright white and beautiful and just sat there beckoning me away from the big, much-more-serious one that I should have been working on. This is the most exciting phase of a new piece because things change so fast. It’s impossible to know this early on what the final piece will look like. …
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I’m working on a new piece inspired by an old piece after having painted an itty bitty piece to figure it all out. The old piece is Spirit Room, 18 x 24 inches, oil on canvas, 2009. The itty bitty piece is 6 x 8 inches, oil on canvas, 2010. And here’s the first glimpse…
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I finished this painting of a girl sitting in a chair, reading. I never know when these figures are going to make an appearance in my studio. Sometimes several months go by without even a hint of their presence, then boom! A reader or an angel or a muse presents herself. I get a little…
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When is it a good idea to put wings on an easel? When it makes the painting just perfect. One day a few years ago I painted a little picture of my easel. Innocent enough. The more I looked at it the more I knew that there was something almost magical about that little painting and I couldn’t get enough…
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Last year Carol Robinson presented my show “Making Room for the Muse” in her beautiful gallery in New Orleans on the corner of Magazine Street and Napoleon Avenue. It was good to see so many of our old friends and to make some new ones. Melissa and I went to our favorite restaurant, Liuzza’s, and I ate the best beans and…
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I’d love to show my paintings in the city where I live and work but up to now I haven’t made a serious effort. That’s about to change. I’m talking with a new gallery owner and things are looking promising. I’d like to finish 20 paintings and have them ready for a show in October 2010. I hope…
Angels on Bikes 