Friday Seprember19, 2008

Hello. This is a painting that I made in spring 2007, 48"x48" "Spring Dunes" I started a 22"x22" Grass painting yesterday. I am loving the beginnings of it and have not gone back in.

Thursday Sept 18, 2008

So tonight is the opening of an old (although he is very young) friend of mine Jared Buckhiester at the Envoy Gallery. His work is very sensitive and fine. Pencil drawing for the most part of boys being boys. I would love to own one but we shall see. He likes a couple of paintings of mine so maybe we can still make a trade. This is the beginning of gallery season and I plan to see a lot of work.

The painting on the post is "Birch Forest" from 2007, 62"x50", oil on canvas, from a photo taken approaching "The Grand Canyon National Park" from Flagstaff. I took just two or three photos of the birch trees and have revisited these images a few times. This was the first and most challenging. I did a nine panel version on wood panel and sold it right away. i really wanted to live with it for a bit and was surprised when it sold so quickly. The couple that bought it also bought a 48"x48" dune painting and while they were looking at the work they said that they really did not feel that the grid idea was for them. I showed them the nine panel painting and they very soon changed their minds and went with the grid Birch painting. That was the ultimate form of flattery for me. I kind of feel that a painter knows when something is good and I really felt that the birch on wood panel was a good one. It was a challenge and I really worked it until I felt it was finished. That was a good feeling...calling it finished.

See you later.

Monday Sept. 15th 2008

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I posted a painting from 2007, titled "Diagonal Dunes" I've painted this composition many times and many different sizes. From a nine panel version (9) 16"x20" canvases, a vertical see site: www.markperry.org click on "current work" and scroll down. The shadow and light of the image really intrigued me to paint it over and over. The photo was taken on East Hampton Beach in the early spring of 2007.

I am listening to the radio, news, and trying to think and type at the same time. my apartment is cleaner and I am waiting to hear about a sublet for ten days. So preparing the apartment and....

I just did a layout for a frame that I am putting on a nine panel (coincidentally) painting. It is one of the two nine panel "Banyan Trees". I painted these compositions w/o framing in mind but this couple want a frame so I have to make it work. I also want to have a good photo for my website Yes I forgot about my installation page on my site. It is one of my favorite pages actually. Okay I realize that I am repeating myself on this post. The frame will be a Low Lustre Black. 3/4" grid frame. It really does have potential but I have to execute it so...

Anyway, I think I will use maple or oak for the frame, I feel I must use a hard wood....Wow Fresh Air is doing a special on a writer named David Foster Wallace who apparently hanged himself last week at 46, in an interview from 1997. He was a real downer. Smart and so intense. He was almost pro tennis player from age 13 - 15. It was a beautiful segment from the interview.