Thursday, May 27, 2010

More floating islands



















Oil on Canvas 28" x 28"

Indulging in gesture. Everyone who comes into the studio seems drawn to the minimalism of these canvases - I'd prefer they weren't. These will probably be painted over in the future.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Floating Islands





















These are 18" x 18" Oil on canvas. More of the piles from last post soon. The color correction on these is off, I'm on the road and using a different computer that doesn't have photoshop loaded, so can't fine tune the editing to better approximate the colors in the originals.

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Mountains, or just hills ?



















Oil on Canvas  28" x 28"

These paintings are continuing the Heaven and Earth series. They have evolved from a persistent dream image that has insisted I pay attention to it and paint it to the exclusion of all other possible imagery and subject matter. So I'm obliging and letting the mountains/hills/ziggaurats paint themselves. If only it were that easy.

Most have followed from a pencil sketchbook of these piles. Here is the drawing for this particular painting: