May, 2009

Originally posted on March, 3, 2009

Sketch for the following paintings:

"Untitled", Golden Open acrylic on acid free mat board, 30cm x 24cm, 2009

"Untitled", Golden Open acrylic on acid-free mat board, 22cm x 16cm, 2009

"Untitled", oil on canvas, 27cm x 22cm, 2008

"Untitled", oil on canvas, 27cm x 22cm, 2008

Due to an interruption in my painting (house repairs) I’ve had plenty of time for reflection. Past posts, have, I believe, dealt adequately with the question of artistic integrity in a negative sense. Like all meta-physical questions it is answered in terms of what it is not. To state a response in positive terms obliges recourse to the story of history. There are times when I skirt this issue by saying that my painting is a personally modified impressionism. Like all ism’s this phrase in analysis says absolutely nothing. It is gobly gook like much written and said about art.

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Originally posted on February, 11, 2009

"Boats" Golden Open acrylic on canvas, 46cm x 38cm, 2009

As promised, here is a photograph of the painting from last week after I did more work on it. I’m still not terribly pleased with the result. Sometimes it’s like that. It depends on what I have for breakfast.

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Originally posted on February, 10, 2009

My modified table-top box easel

The last couple of days I’ve been preparing for a trip to Provence. Every year in February or March we head for Provence and the côte d’Azur, weather permitting. As soon as we get a break in the weather we are gone.

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Originally posted on February, 6, 2009

"Untitled" Golden Open acrylic on 100% cotton paper, 24,5cm x 18,5cm, 2009

The last 2 days have been spent for the most part working on images in Adobe photoshop (and Adobe Lightroom). Over the years in the photographing of paintings I’ve had my best results photographing in direct sunlight. For me, simple is best. In the past, I’ve been the proud owner of sophisticated electronic umbrella lighting. And if you like to play with “stuff” this way this may be your cup of tea. The drawback, however, when we depend on sunlight is that for a good part of the year, it does not cooperate. As well of course, the sunlight changes of quality.(temperature) throughout the day and then it gets dark. Not to speak of rain and wind. Often conditions are not correct at the time we are ready to photograph a painting.

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