in the studio beautiful day outside

Hello. I need to start using this blog for the reasons that I started in the first place trying to market the work. I am entered in another juried show that I will most likely not get accepted to but I love the work blah, blah. This is a link to the sponsors of a potentially good show.

http://bwac.org/

I have not posted an image in a while, from posting an image with every entry. So here goes.

It's from Muir Woods National Monument. Breath taking nature preserved thanks to this great man.

Hello. Yes I am in the studio, revisiting my new large painting and some smaller ones. I've made some changes trying to keep it small and treat the background as a color, keeping it full of energy with white. The plan anyway. Going in with White, spread it on with little or a lot of medium. I scrape away the previous session generally speaking, on large paintings. Smaller ones I will leave some paint buildup, less to think about from a conservators standpoint small scale. Anyway so it is easy with regard to the paint. Listening to some good music and radio, another reason to never leave NY. state that is, after all I am hardly in the city, city radio is far better but it is great in the country as well. Fascinating.

Love the Bee Gees.

the new large painting

I just read a comment that someone left a week or so ago and I didn't know as I am not used to someone leaving a comment. I am glad to know that someone might be reading. It was an anonymous post which is to bad but bring it on I totally respect anonymity.

I don't know what is going on but I've been searching blogs a little that past couple of days and I am clicking on art blogs pretty exclusively. I don't want to jinx it...some of them aren't for me but at least I'm seeing art blogs. I've searched a bit in the past and found it difficult to find them. You would think it would be easy but It always seemed to go nowhere.

Hello. So I am working on my new large painting and it is going well but I am asking myself the same old questions, negative questions. Well not really questions but blanket statements. It is not such a loud voice because I can see that they are good...but so big, really practical. I am going to have to figure out how to get these seen when I am ready. The ideal is the studio visit.

I really want to say something worth while about painting. I am lucky to be in the process of making a new body of work that is totally new in feeling and I think my best work. How convenient at fifty to be making large energy consuming work. It is not fun getting up on the ladder but I do it if I can't throw the paint where I want it or reach to make the mark I want. This could be my prime I guess regarding work...I am peaking, can't think of anything that I could do...I guess I will have to think of something won't I?? Very lucky...all of this means that I am loving the work.

Back in the studio

Hello. This was started on January 20, 2010. In the studio listening to Amy Goodman, Democracy Now. The condition of the world is very disconcerting. A journalist Tim Ives or something like that talking about how soldiers are in Haiti with guns very threatening not even speaking the language and not helping people who are trying to help themselves. He dismissed the US Military, as not helping at all or enough. I do wish that it could be done without guns. I guess they think desperate times call for desperate measures.

Wow Just heard about three activists ascending trees that were going to be cut down something to do with coal. I think West Virginia was the location. I will have to google it to find out why they felt compelled to save the trees. Of course they did not they just held up there slaughter for a while until the activists were arrested. Just googled, West Virginia mountaintops from being cleared for mining. People trying to save nature, it seems like it should all be protected, especially mountains.

I am about to start working on a new large painting my first night back in the country.Well that was yesterday and I have made some progress on the new large painting. It's a little dark right now, dark beauty. But that was the plan if there was any plan it was to create a mood. I used Black for the first time in maybe ten years. Seriously I've had the same black tubes for a long time. It creates a hole for me and that is the challenge but I feel up to it. I have taken it to the dark side regarding the palette and now have to think about lightening it without losing the feeling. Maybe...keeping every note original the challenge to not over paint, literally. I feel a healthy amount of white background in the painting. That floating feeling.

Wow I just thought about the life inside a snow globe. If it was left on a radiator to close I think that life could start, algae. But the energy of the water moving around inside the perfect sphere of glass, hopefully glass.