oil paintings + messes
Life Drawing night at OCAC
Thursday, November 14th from 5 to 8:45 PM at the Ocean City Art Center at 17th and Simpson Ave. Ocean City, NJ 08226.
Don’t forget to bring exact change of $15 to pay the model, Short haired Ann.
Please RSVP to Mary Ann Kline. If you need her email address, please comment on this post below and I’ll inbox you. Continue reading “Life Drawing in Ocean City Thursday”
I’m so excited to share that “Spinning” was selected for the show, Out of Place at Fountain Street Gallery in Boston this coming January.
If you’re in the area at the beginning of the new year, perhaps even for NYDE, I hope you can make the show.
Out of Place
Juried by Jameson Johnson, Boston Art Review (BAR)
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, January 2–Sunday, February 2, 2020
Reception: Friday, January 3, 2020, 5:00–8:00PM (Snow Date: Saturday, January 11, 2020, 3:00–5:00PM)
Fountain Street Gallery
460C HARRISON AVENUE, SUITE 2,
BOSTON, MA 02118
www.fsfaboston.com
Life Drawing night at RRCA in Millville
Sunday, October 27th from 6 to 8 PM at the Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts on High Street in Millville. $10.
I don’t organize these things, I’m just sharing the info because I like drawing with this group. This figure drawing sketch club in the Glasstown Arts District.
Dave organizes this. Sometimes people bring adult beverages. Hope to draw with you Sunday. There is more information at www.rrcarts.com. Cheers.
Continue reading “Sketch club Sunday”I did something out of the ordinary this night… I brought paints. They’re a different animal outside of the studio.
Conte on paper, Sept 2019
Since early 2018, I started painting slow oil paintings from the information from fast croquis. I’ve been exploring ideas about connection so much lately, First Impressions have been a huge part. It’s fascinating how much instinctive information can be filled in upon a brief meeting. Only so much of that information can be quantified with language but there is so much intuitive information residing in sense and energy.
I do a fair amount of drawing from life. The figure drawing parallel occurred to me – croquis are these fast drawings that capture gesture, shape, position, and weight in seconds. They often contain enough information to fill in the blanks to translate quick lines into solid human forms with energy and emotion.
That’s exactly how first impressions work… we flesh out quick skeletal scribbles into emotionally concentrated human forms with very little to go on.
Each of the photographed paintings above are:
10×10″, Oil on Wood, 2018
The gallery below was updated September, 2019
This project that created paintings from improvisational dancing.
People danced in paint to create abstract secondary paintings from the momentary art of an improvisational dance
Details:
Links
Action photos from the Dance Paint Mashup at 48 Blocks 2019
More about the dance in paint project
A few photos from yesterday. If you ever get an invitation to go sailing, take it.
Continue reading “THAT was fun!”
Abstracted Figurative Mixed Media on wood, Seascape on Canvas
12×12″ Oil and Resin on wood
12×16 Oil and Resin on Canvas
