Continue reading for a video of details and a WIP photo or two.
Continue reading “Primary figure on gray sweater dress”Primary figure on gray sweater dress
Preparing a piece
A quick time lapse video covering a stretched “canvas” in gesso. I sewed a figure drawing into the wool sweater as a sculptural element.
Selfie with a quick selfie
Show and tell video, painter style
Recorded in September, here is some of my recent work and a few pieces in progress.
I sort of sound like a chipmunk after speeding it up.
Some of these are still available. Please contact me to inquire about shows and sales.
Reclining figure paint on blue jeans
First Impression. Thread, Oil Paint, Resin, Denim
12×12″, November 2019.
J. Clifford
Continue reading to see this piece in progress and another details video
Continue reading “Reclining figure paint on blue jeans”Sketch club Sunday
Life Drawing night at RRCA in Millville
Sunday, November 24 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.
Life Drawing in Ocean City Thursday
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”
Spinning to Boston
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
First Impressions
A series of figurative oil paintings
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
First Impressions, with tan lines, Oil/Panel, 2019 
First Impressions, with tan lines, Oil/Panel, 2019 
First Impressions, with tan lines, Oil/Panel, 2019 
First Impression: Tamara, Oil painting on canvas 2019 
First Impression, 2018 oil / board10x10″ 
First Impression, 2018 oil / board10x10″ 
First Impression: Linen Skirt, 2018 oil / mixed media 12×12″ 
First Impression: Linen Skirt, 2018 oil / mixed media 12×12″ 
First Impression, 2018 oil / board12x12″ 
First Impression, 2018 oil / board10x10″ 
First Impression, 2018 oil / board10x10″ 
First Impression 
Oil and Resin Abstract on Wood 
Oil and Resin Abstract on Wood 
Oil and Resin Abstract on Wood 
Oil and Resin Abstract on Wood 
Oil and Resin Abstract on Wood 
Oil and Resin Abstract on Wood 
Blue Figure on Loosely Tied Linen Dress ; 12×12″ oil/linen/mixed media. Jodee Clifford. 2018
