This is another small, spontaneous painting. It has been in my studio for a few weeks and has many layers of paint. It’s called “Deep Geology” because it reminds me of layers of earth. Its color also reminds me of the lightness of robin eggs so there is some contrast of ideas.
[catablog category=”Sunday Drawing March 27 2011″] This week I continued to pay attention to the unity of values and how they bring the form together as a single, coherent element. This is most evident in the first image (the five minute pose). I then became involved in a different focus. I suddenly realized that when […]
I wanted to follow up on the subject of unity and on the techniques and ways of seeing that I learned from my painting teacher, Kaji Aso. I discussed this in an earlier post. Anne brought home some beautiful tulips and put one of them in the ceramic dragon vase. I had to paint it. […]
Picasso supposedly said that a painting is finished when it’s sold. In the movie about Jackson Pollock he was asked, “how do you know when a painting is finished?” Pollock answered with another question, “how do you know when you’re finished making love?” I have been working on, and posting about this painting for about […]