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You can't make a shot you don't take. But if you make every shot you do take, you're probably standing on a ladder next to the net.
It began innocently enough as another Habanero. But it's pudgy barrel shape refused to take on any form in the painting. The painting refused to be anything but a paint by numbers representation of a little pepper sitting under a light on a stack of boards. More...
Cut Pear, 4" x 6", -sold-
 Â Habanero 2, 5" x 6", -sold-
I borrowed some hammers and tools from a carpenter friend. The rigid geometry is more difficult to manage, forcing my drawing hand to develop. Where a piece of fruit allows more liberties with line, allowing me to play more with color, the man made items require more attention to shape and proportion.
Hammer 2, 6" x 5", sold  Hammer 3, 6" x 5", sold  There's something happening in the...
Having seen what a series of small paintings did for a good friend, I wanted to see what they could do for me. And so I too started a series of new paintings. They were to be small, executed in a single sitting, and done daily. And they were to be done from life. The initial aim, to train my hand and my eye. The hope of doing them daily has given way to the realities of time, or the lack there...
With its curves and plump bottom, a pear is a baby, a body - but simple, sexless, innocent. Almost. Until you make it a pair.
Pair of Pears, 6" x 5"  The best any of us can do with pain is turn it and use it as fuel, as a reminder to do. And so I paint. Here it's a little looser again after the rotting/drying apple, but also a bit more traditional in its arrangement than some of the...
Yesterday, I may have learned that a friend of mine is dead. A sweet sardonic man with few in his life, having lost most of his friends to HIV in the 80's and 90's. I knew him through the motorcycles. We rode together fairly regularly when I lived in Nevada. He'd come up to visit my wife and I, and we'd go ride through the mountains around Lake Tahoe. When I had a chance, I'd visit him in San...
The reaction to the paintings is more than I could have hoped. As I finish the 16th in the series, I need to reign in my expectations and focus on the process and the choices.
Red Pear, 6" x 5"  Pruners, 6" x 5"  As promised, I'll have the pricing of the pieces sorted out shortly. |
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