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Big Bang: New Studio Visit

Posted on Tuesday, April 10, 2012 5:08 PM
It's been a long time since I posted about what's happening in the studio.  I've lost interest somewhat in traditional oil painting, though I'm confident there will come a time when the paint imperative takes hold once more.  I've got a stash of new canvases on standby, for when I catch the flash of motivation for the painting project I'm toying with in my head.

Instead of painting, lately I've returned to photography (the discipline I've pursued for as many years as I've devoted to poetry).
Categories: studio visit, works in progress, photography, experiments, collage, Impossible Project, photo transfers, Polaroid Spectra

More Big Problem

Posted on Monday, May 30, 2011 3:22 PM
I've added a few more images on myGallerypage, including some slightly older paintings.  It occurred to me that, if this blog mentions a progression or change in my painting, I should try to give some visual reference for that statement.  Check it out!  Is there a unified vision and voice through the collage poems, visual poems, photographs, abstract collages and paintings?  And here's a trick question:  how about a unified vision and voice when the text-only work is included in the equation?
Categories: painting, works in progress, process notes

The Big Problem

Posted on Saturday, May 21, 2011 11:29 AM



This is the piece on the wall in my painting studio.  I call itThe Big Problem, though I don't expect that will be its permanent title. You can't tell, especially not from this photograph, but the painting is 64 x 72".  It's not the biggest painting I've done, by any means--but it's currently my most problematic large oil painting.  That's why it's calledThe Big Problem. 

This is a cautionary tale, really.  I'll give the moral of the story before I even start telling the story itself: the moral is "know thyself.
Categories: painting, works in progress, process notes

A Studio Visit

Posted on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 9:51 AM
I have always loved looking at artists' and scientists' diaries, journals, letters, notes and similar ephemera.  I've also always loved the "behind-the-scenes" glimpses of the working life of these folks--the grainy photos of artists' studios, the chaise in the garden, random companion animals, the porch swing, the kitchen table loaded with bread crusts and drawings, the glinting glassware in a laboratory, the pensive profile posed alongside the tools of the trade and half-done projects.
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