Entries by David Gordon

Sunday Drawing March 27 2011

[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 […]

Watercolor Unity

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. […]

When is a Painting Finished?

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 […]