Winter's End (please please please)

We picked our first daffodils yesterday.  

At Winter’s beginning I am always grateful for the break in weeding, watering and tending of the garden, and in February, I am reliably OVER the whole Winter experience.  These last weeks have been mostly gray, with more than our share of rain, and I am looking forward to the blooming of the Maple trees, the noises of excited birds, and the relaxing of the ground into warmer temperatures.  

My painting this past week has been a bit gray and moody too, and so today, I’m determined to find for something moving in the landscape. This morning I reviewed some old painting favorites, and think I will start on something based on these.  

Something with a moon maybe, but almost certainly a bridge. 

(whistler, blue and gold)

 

(hiroshige, sudden shower at ohashi bridge) 

  

(whistler, nocturne in black and gold) 

  (kasonik ((thats me)), untitled bridge) 

Dusk

untitled dusk, 2019, 48 x 60", acrylic on hardboard

obscure

When used as an impermeable layer, resin creates and interesting physical distance between layers, creating depth and in some case allowing you to see around the physical edges of the paint.  Resin also allows me to isolate otherwise incompatible materials, creating new illusions and deceptions.  

This piece is from just before Christmas 2019. Within it, there is an uncertainty about what is happening. This indeterminate state is the subject and my primary interest in the landscape.  

Untitled, 2019, 20 x 24", mixed media and resin on board, sold

Glow!

Untitled 2019, 20 x 20", mixed media on hardboard, $1875

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ocean blue

Untitled Ocean, 12 x 12" (+frame), 2019, mixed media on hardboard, $850

54 x 60", 2019, acrylic on hardboard 

Purple Line

Untitled Purple Line, 2019, 11 x 14", acrylic and resin on hardboard

here comes the sun

Untitled Flower, 36 x 36", acrylic and chalk on canvas 2018

The Blues

Blue Lines, 2018, 60 x 72", acrylic on canvas

Fast

when you look straight out of your window and all the trees blur together

Fast, 2018, 10 x 10" (10.5 x 10.5" framed), acrylic and resin on board, available

Glow

Untitled Glow, 10 x 10", 2018,  acrylic and resin on board, sold

Untitled Cedar Hill

This piece, Untitled Cedar Hill, will be in my show TRIO, which opens Friday June 1, and runs until June 28th at the Welcome Gallery in downtown Charlottesville. 

Untitled Cedar Hill, 2018, 60 x 60" (61.5 x 61.5"framed), acrylic on hardboard

TRIO

I have a show TRIO opening at the Welcome Gallery in Charlottesville on June 1st.  These are two of TWELVE (can you believe!?) mixed media pieces this size.  I love all the movement and color in this group of work.

Untitled Purple Rain, 2018, 25.5 x 33" mixed media on watercolor paper $1500

Untitled Green Field, 2018, 25.5 x 33", mixed media on watercolor paper, sold

Green

Untitled Green, 12 x 12", 2018, acrylic and resin on hardboard, sold

Haze

Untitled Haze, 10 x 10", 2018, acrylic and resin on board sold

Spring

 (Flowers   40 x 46"  mixed media on canvas)

Creation Myth

Creation Myth, the imaginative expression of the beginning of things, whether by the will and act of a transcendent being or by emanation from some ultimate source

(paraphrase)

https://www.britannica.com/topic/creation-myth

This piece is reminiscent of a painting I gave Rod for his fist birthday after Margaux was born... I refer to it as the Creation Myth of Margaux. This has the same amorphous, oceanic potential, that looks to me, like the beginnings of some small universe.  

Creation Myth II, 2018, 25.5 x 33", mixed media on watercolor paper, $1500

Spring Green

These colors remind me of Spring... its a very hopeful green.

20 x 20" alcohol ink on yupo, 2018, sold

green

Untitled Colombia, mixed media on watercolor paper, 2017, sold

6 new things, 12's, 16's, and 36's

Sometimes I just forget to post the things I've been working on.  So here we are, six new things. 

Untitled Moon (center), 2018, 36 x 36"(frame adds 1/2"), acrylic on canvas, sold

and check out that snazzy daybed would 'ya? That's a Roderick Coles find... check him out on Instagram @thecuriousorangestore

Untitled Pink, 2018, 12 x 12" (frame adds 1/2"), acrylic and resin on hardboard, sold

Untitled Moon 1, 2018, 12 x 12" (frame adds 1/2"), acrylic on hardboard, sold

Untitled Moon 2, 2018, 12 x 12" (frame adds 1/2"), acrylic on hardboard, sold

Untitled Cloud, 2018, 12 x 12" (frame adds 1/2"), acrylic and resin on hardboard, sold

Untitled Field, 2018, 16 x 16" (frame adds 1/2"), acrylic and resin on hardboard, sold

Untitled Colombia

Untitled Colombia, 2017, 37.5 x 37.5" (36 x 36"), acrylic on canvas, sold

Cyanotype Pair

Cyanotype Pair, 2017, 11.75 x 14.75", cyanotype on watercolor paper 

(Framed in pickled oak)

pink ink

20 x 20"
(sold)

Untitled, 2017, 36 x 36", acrylic on canvas, sold

I think they might be ships

I try to keep my paintings somewhat ambiguous, and it's always interesting to hear the things that people see in them. I don't know what you'll see, but I think they might be ships.....

Untitled Purple, 36 x 36" acrylic and pencil on canvas, 2017, available

Pink

I'm just getting ready to put the final glazing on this one and order a (silver) frame.

36 x 36" 2017, acrylic on hardboard (sold)

Old Wall, New Work

I'm surprised to find that my these intensely saturated pieces look so at home on this quiet textured wall.  #CONTRAST 

I guess I have always liked the look of old and new together... 

Untitled Drawings, 25.5 x 33" (each), mixed media on watercolor paper, 2017, $1500 each (sold)

here it comes....

Untitled (approach), 2017, acrylic on hardboard, 36 x 36", $4200