Wednesday, February 22, 2006


female primate, this is the first of this series. Posted by Picasa

end of flowering, fruition now. Posted by Picasa

final version of mid life crisis Posted by Picasa

oak tree, sonoma 2006 Posted by Picasa

Trees on hill, Sonoma, 2006 Posted by Picasa

The wave Posted by Picasa

This the final version of "its only natural" Posted by Picasa

Thursday, February 16, 2006


This is a digital mock up of where I am thinking of going with the original "it's only natural" painting... (scroll down for earlier post showing it at it's present state) the monotone paintings are what I call drawings or underpaintings. They are known as Grasiles, the tonal aspect of certain kinds of old master paintings. For me they are a natual and powerfull way to develop images directly on canvases, so I call them drawings... 20 some years ago I could not figure out a satisfying way to add color and keep all the wonderfull imagery this technique opens up for me, so I switched to trying to get the same kind of energy directly with colors... this lead to an expressive maner and a flatening and cartooning of the images... (a la Soutine) the paint came to dominate rather then the image-ination. When I began painting in Sonoma in preparation for my big art adventure coming up this summer in Santa Fe I was working on producing and perfecting and experimenting with the direct painting techniques I have been largly using this past 20 years (earliler post; man reading newspaper). I would begin each painting though with one of these underpaintings, and Jill kept saying I was ruining the painting by moving away from the spirit of the priliminary painting. So I have now decided to return to my old experiements and see what the 20 years of explorations in color will do... Posted by Picasa

man reading newspaper Posted by Picasa

Pomegranite on blue plate Posted by Picasa

On becoming 50: Mid-life Crisis Posted by Picasa

On turning 50: Denial Posted by Picasa

On Becoming 50: It's Only Natural Posted by Picasa